Coppinger: Lopez Still Plans Garcia on Feb. 6 — 'Not Done Yet'

Label: REPORTED · Heat: WARM. This is a follow-up to 304, not a booking. Mike Coppinger reports that Teófimo López "still plans to finalize a fight with Ryan Garcia on Feb. 6 with or without the WBA welterweight title." Coppinger adds: "Not done yet but expect that fight to happen next while Lopez's team appeals the decision on the Jack Catterall mandatory."

That does not undo the WBA's order, already in 309, or the appeal plan already in 313. Coppinger is describing a possible Garcia date with or without the belt, while the mandatory is under appeal. Nothing is signed.

It also clashes with Ryan García's own Kick-stream claim, already in 304, that he fights Floyd Mayweather on Feb. 6 in Vegas — also not signed. Two Feb. 6 dates cannot both be a done deal.

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Dan Rafael called it "Ryan Garcia's nonsense announcement that he's fighting Floyd in Feb." Separately, on the money versus the mandatory, he wrote: "Teofimo likely would make around triple the money to fight Garcia instead of Catterral." That "Catterral" spelling is Rafael's. He then relayed a line he attributed to Mayweather: "Belts are great but you can't pay your light bill with a belt."

BoxingScene (Staff, Nov. 11) headlines the stream as Garcia vowing to "hospitalize" Mayweather as he "announces" a Feb. 6 showdown — "hospitalize" and the quoted "announces" are BoxingScene's wording, treated here as a fight boast from the outlet, not as our verb. The same article quotes Garcia: "I want to put him in the hospital for two days. I'm not playing." That boast sits in the same stream already covered, via World Boxing News's paraphrase, in 304. BoxingScene also lists license and lawsuit obstacles. We are still not treating a Mayweather fight as signed or announced.

Fighter pages: Teófimo López, Ryan García, Jack Catterall. There is no Floyd Mayweather fighter page in the BoxBid list.

If a purse ever does get posted for either Feb. 6 idea, take a swing at Guess the Purse. Until then, the only welterweight date already official on the calendar is Haney–Paro — log a pick in Fight Picks.

Two Feb. 6 claims, one belt in dispute: which one do you actually believe gets a contract first? Tell us in the comments.

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