Lomachenko's Win Over Riquitdeaux Is One of the GREATEST WINS of the Modern Era...

He didn't eat his way up two weight classes, Rigo always comes in at 130ish. Loma has been coming in at 136-138 since he debuted. Neither fighter's weight has changed for the past 4 years.

 

Excuses...before the fight Shawn porter, Roberto Duran, and just about everyone from mayweather gym was predicting a rigo win... now he is to old and small ...lol...idiots

 

But not for long, the first jab from Kovalev will turn off the light Lomachenko.

 

Size was a factor as a new weight class, Rigo wasn't used to fighting guys from this category, and it was his first experiment, and seems to be the last one

 

You aren't being objective. Loma didn't even land **** in three of the five rounds against a completely outmatched opponent. Just what did he do that so impressed you? Was it the wrestling with an old midget? Or when he punched Rigo in the back of his head whenever he'd bend over? Maybe, you enjoyed his footwork and the way he'd wheel around Rigo when he was ducking? It certainly couldn't be his awesome 16% connect rate with those sissy slaps he threw against a human target that wasn't even firing back.

 

For the record, I like Lomachenko as a fighter, but I hate his fans. This fight meant less than Mayweather's bout with Marquez and his fans are acting like he KO'd a prime Pacquiao.

 

Rigo's fans would have been far more overbearing if Lomachenko had been the one outclassed that quit. It was also a clash between two top 10 consensus P4P fighters that turned into a mater class exhibition of boxing from Lomachenko despite the fight not going down how you envisioned.

 

decent win, not unexpected, the way he won earns him a little extra credit. he is coming along well but rigo was only a name and not a true test of lomas ability, too many advantages to loma. i would like to see him go after linares, now that would be a serious test and would park him at #1 p4p and would set up a huge unification vs garcia.

 

...that would be true but I really don't see that? Has to be 10:1 the other way and that's assuming there's a 1 out there.

Pretty sure the only people that still repped Rigondeaux to the level of the context of this very thread going into the match were the couple of trolls that you can't hold the masses to anyway. I know if I hear you supporting the notion of this thread I could call BS and easily cite dozens of posts, same as with the other posters that would have been offended by my post. Whatever though, I really don't care, my comment is in response to this thread and if you disagree then that's on you being a hypocrite, revisionist, and/or fanboy (not you specifically, CS).

 

Revisionist history

 

You are making it sound like as if Loma had done nothing AT ALL. He fought a guy widely considered as the best defensive fighter, OF COURSE he’s going to miss. He won the rounds based on his jab and throwing punches in combinations and landing some against a guy who only throws one punch at a time and fought negatively. It’s pretty hard to land 50% of your punches against a defensive genius who spoils. Since you’re so adamant about his connect % how about the fact that Rigo himself only landed no more than 3 punches a round and only connected a pathetic 8% connect rate. Loma completely neutralized Rigo’s greatest assets which was his counter left and footwork and left him without a plan B other than to hold and run. He made the guy frustrated and helpless to the point of quitting, which is worse than getting knocked out.
You are clearly looking for reasons to nitpick and make excuses regarding Loma’s performance and the result of the fight. It just sounds like as if you can’t get over Rigo’s loss.

 

You must be forgetting FMJ v Conor McGregor

 

Lomachenko didn't do much, didn't have to do much, because Rigdondeaux was such a shitty opponent. Rigondeaux has a well deserved reputation as a good defensive fighter at his own weight and in his prime, sort of like how Pacquiao was a beast eight years and two weight classes ago. Now, not so much, although you can still put a one dimensional bruiser in front of them and they might be able to work a little of the old magic. But whatever his reputation, Rigondeaux was not a defensive wizard on the night in question. I wasn't asking for miracles, just your typical 35% connect percentage. What we got was less than half of that. Face it, that's terrible. Marcos Maidana still managed to land 26% against Floyd and that's freaking Maidana. But Maidana is just a tough brawler. You really have to go back to Trinidad vs Whitaker to find two "p4p" guys fighting where the defensive master fought the much larger, much younger up and comer with the same kind of age and size discrepancies we have here. Trinidad landed 58% against "the defensive master" Pernell Whitaker.

Rigondeaux only landing two punches a round makes Lomachenko's impotence look even worse. He's got nothing coming back at him to keep him off of Rigondeaux. Rigondeaux is just offering him his throat, standing there like a human punching bag, offering no resistance. Lomachenko should have unloaded. He should have knocked that tiny man out if he had any power at all, like Crawford and Garcia did to their midgets.

Also, quitting isn't worse than getting knocked out. Rigondeaux has no heart. He was obviously just doing this for a payday, probably barely trained, didn't come in with a game plan, and wanted to retire with a little cash in his pocket. I don't know if he went into the fight planning to quit if things weren't going his way, but judging by the half-hearted way that he fought, it's a possibility.

As for me hating Lomachenko and loving Rigondeaux, the opposite is closer to the truth.

 

Lol, blatant with it them boys !

 

It’s a way better win than Mayweather getting outboxed for several rounds before finally beating a gassed 0-0-0 MMA guy with absolutely no pro boxing experience making his debut

But yeah, KEEP hating. Lol