Teofimo Lopez Net Worth 2026: Purses, Purse Bids and the Romero Payday

Lopez's breakout check came on October 17, 2020, when he outpointed Lomachenko at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas to unify the lightweight titles. The fight was supposed to be a pay-per-view, then moved to free ESPN during the pandemic, and it pulled about 4.2 million viewers across ESPN platforms.

The purse was modest for a fight that big. Lopez's purse has been reported at $1.5 million, with BoxingScene reporting at the time that his total would land closer to $2 million once the deal was restructured. Lomachenko earned about $3.25 million. Lopez got the belts and the fame. Lomachenko got the bigger check.

That gap mattered a few months later, when Top Rank offered Lopez its contract minimum of $1.25 million for his mandatory defense against George Kambosos Jr. Lopez refused, the fight went to a purse bid, and the number more than quadrupled.

On February 25, 2021, Triller won the IBF purse bid for Lopez vs. Kambosos with a bid of $6.018 million. Matchroom bid $3.506 million and Top Rank bid $2.315 million. As champion, Lopez was due 65 percent, about $3.9 million, the biggest guaranteed payday of his career at that point.

Then the fight fell apart. It changed dates eight times, Lopez caught COVID-19 the week of the original June date, and Triller, after an estimated $9 million to $10 million in promotional costs, walked away in October 2021 without staging the fight. Matchroom's Eddie Hearn stepped in under his own bid, which cut the pot nearly in half.

The fight finally happened on November 27, 2021 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden on DAZN. Lopez's purse under Matchroom's bid was $2,278,900, with Kambosos getting $1,227,100. Kambosos won a split decision (115-111, 115-112, 113-114) and took the unified lightweight titles. Lopez lost the belts and about $1.6 million of guaranteed money in the same year.

Lopez moved up to 140 and won the WBO and lineal junior welterweight titles from Josh Taylor at Madison Square Garden on June 10, 2023. Dan Rafael reported his purse at $2.3 million, a number Lopez considered too small for a fight of that size. He announced his retirement in the ring, then unretired within weeks.

His first two defenses, against Jamaine Ortiz at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas on February 8, 2024 and Steve Claggett in June 2024, were Top Rank cards on ESPN. Neither purse has been disclosed. Both came under a contract extension Lopez had signed before his December 2022 fight with Sandor Martin, an extension he later told Top Rank was invalid in a legal letter in October 2024.

Lopez's standoff with Bob Arum produced the clearest public numbers about his asking price. In January 2025 he told reporters that he had turned down a $2.8 million Top Rank offer to fight Subriel Matias on pay-per-view at T-Mobile Arena, and that he wanted a $3.5 million guarantee as protection against weak PPV revenue. He also said Top Rank had offered Matias $850,000.

In the same interview he said, "We have a three-fight deal that has yet to be disclosed." He never named the counterparty, but his next three fights all landed on Turki Alalshikh's cards, and he hired Eddy Reynoso as trainer and added managers Keith Connolly and Mike Borao.

The first of those fights was Arnold Barboza Jr. on May 2, 2025, outdoors in Times Square, the first U.S. card of The Ring series, distributed by DAZN pay-per-view. Lopez won a unanimous decision (116-112, 116-112, 118-110) to keep the WBO title. Then came Shakur Stevenson at Madison Square Garden on January 31, 2026. Stevenson dominated, winning 119-109 on all three cards and taking the WBO and Ring belts. Neither purse was disclosed. New York does not publish purses, and the Riyadh Season era runs on private money.

Lopez rebuilt fast. On August 22, 2026 he moved up to welterweight and beat Rolando "Rolly" Romero by majority decision (114-114, 115-113, 116-112) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for the WBA welterweight title, on a PBC pay-per-view carried by Prime Video and DAZN. That made him a three-division champion, and it put him in a division with Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia, Conor Benn and Liam Paro all holding belts or chasing them. Lopez's purse for the Romero fight was not disclosed.

Lopez has also started acting like a businessman. His company, Takeover Promotions, bid $2.35 million at the WBO purse bid for Devin Haney vs. Keyshawn Davis on July 30, 2026, losing to Top Rank's $8.55 million. He did not win, but a fighter bidding on a rival's mandatory is a sign he is thinking about the other side of the table.

Sponsorship money is harder to pin down. Lopez has been promoted by Top Rank since 2016 and fights in a stacked endorsement market, but no deal with a disclosed value has been reported, and we are not going to quote a figure nobody has confirmed.

Here is what we can add up on the record: about $1.5 million for Lomachenko, $2,278,900 for Kambosos and $2.3 million for Taylor, which is roughly $6.1 million in reported purses before taxes, trainer fees and management. Add the earlier Top Rank years at contract minimums, plus five undisclosed paydays since 2024, two of them on Riyadh Season cards and one on a PBC pay-per-view. His own stated floor by early 2025 was a $3.5 million guarantee.

Stack those together and career gross earnings are likely somewhere in the $15 million to $25 million range. After the usual deductions (a manager, a trainer, taxes in Nevada and New York, and the cost of a long contract fight with his promoter), our net worth estimate is $8 million to $15 million. Third-party sites have published figures as low as $5 million, but those were written before the Barboza, Stevenson and Romero paydays and should be treated as unverified estimates.

The bottom line is that Lopez has spent most of his career underpaid relative to his name, and the Riyadh Season era is finally fixing that. A Haney fight at 147 would be the biggest check of his life.