Juan Manuel Lopez finally concedes he was wrong. He had a seemingly stay-busy title defense lined up against Orlando Salido on April 16 and didn?t think an impending divorce from his wife, Barbara DeJesus, would negatively impact him.
Divorces, say those who have gone through them, are generally nasty. They prey upon your mind, nag at you like a sore that will never heal. They impact so many aspects of your life.
In the days and weeks before he defended his World Boxing Organization featherweight belt against Salido, a heavy underdog who entered that match in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, with 11 losses, Lopez insisted the divorce would have no impact on his preparations for the bout or his performance in the ring.
