Hitchins’ ‘Best in the World’ Claim: Is it Just Chassing Big-Money Fights?

Richardson Hitchins Boasted on Social Media Today, Calling Himself “The Best In The World. “ IBF Light Wellterweight Champion Hitchins (20-0, 8 kos) has yet to prove himself as being at the best on The Best on the Planet 140.

Richardson’s Recent Eighth-Round Knockout of George Cambosos Jr. Wasn’t A Big Enough Win To Give Him The Status As The “Best In The World” in That Division. In a recent interview, Hitchins Said He Wanted to Fight WBO 140-LB Champion Teofimo Lopez in A Unification.

Hitchins’ True Title Reign Test

Richardson Can’t Prove HE’s The Best in The World At 140 IF He’s Just Focused On Money and Unwilling to Fight Thes Top Fighters:

• Gary Antuanne Russell: WBA
• Subriel Matias: WBC
• Alberto Puello
• Oscar Duarte
• Ernesto Mercado

The Best In The World

– Richardson Hitchins (@heisrichardson) August 13, 2025

IF Hitchins Can’t Teofimo, HE’s Open to Moving Up to 147 to Fight Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia, Manny Pacquiao, or Brian Norman Jr. In other words, He Wants Just The Big-Money Fights That Would Pay Millions.

Without Turki Allalshikh Getting Involved, Richardson Hitchins’ Chances of Getting Fights Against Any Of Those Fighters Are Virtually Nonexistent. He probably wasn’t seriously watching wbo wbo welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. Unless Turk Going To Offer Him The Same Kind of Money That Haney, Ryan Garcia, And Teofimo Got Last May at Times Square in New York.

The Best Solution to Hitchins’ Problem is to Stay at 140, and focus on the Defending His Ibf Title Against The Best Contender He Can Get. That would be someone like Puello or Mercado. Those Guys Would Jump At The Chance to Fight Hitchins If Heway to Offer Them The Fight. He Might Not Want To. We saw How Gustavo Lemos Came Close to Beating Hitchins Last Year With The Pressure He Put On Him. Mercado and Puello are Capable Of Doing a Lot More.