Last month, Teofimo Lopez pulled off a big upset when he beat former WBA/WBO/WBC Franchise lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko via unanimous decision at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

With the victory, Lopez, who came into the fight with the IBF lightweight title, vaulted into the top 10 of most pundits pound-for-pound lists.

2016 US Olympian Charles Conwell (13-0 10 KOs) feels like the victory will be the beginning of a new era in the sport of boxing and was very happy that Lopez was able to get the victory.

"I think Teofimo dominated the first seven rounds and then won one or second in the backend," Conwell told BoxingScene.com. "I was rooting for him, he said it is a new era and I am one of those young guns and I think it is our era now."

Like most fighters, Conwell has seen his 2020 campaign impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The soon to be 23-year-old has only been able to fight twice this year winning both of the fights by stoppage.  In January he knocked out Ramses Agaton in four rounds and in early October stopped Wendy Toussaint in nine rounds in a ShoBox main event.

"We are trying to squeeze one more fight in. I should be back sometime in mid December. I can't really say much more about it right now," said Conwell. "I think Toussaint was just trying to prove a point that I couldn't hurt or stop him but I eventually broke him down and got to him and got him out of there."

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