“I mean, why not? We broke the records of Ali and Frazier one in Madison Square Garden when I fought earlier this year against Shakur Stevenson,” Teofimo said to Clipfury. “We broke the records by a thousand seats more. So, I can’t go back to taking a tuneup. No, we go right into another big fight . That’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to make big fights happen.”

Teofimo doesn’t explain why a tuneup is out of the question. Money may be part of the calculation, particularly after signing a deal with DAZN through Takeover Promotions. But there is another issue: how safe would a supposedly easier fight at we