Loma overhyping is ruining his victory and his credibility

By claiming he won this fight easily.
It was competitive and in terms of the significant punches that made you go "oh!!" Linares was giving as good as he was taking from Loma right until the end.

Loma looked like he just went through a near death experience when they showed his face right after the stoppage. Heknew he had been in a toughone.

Loma is probably p4p #1 now but Linares deserves his respect and Loma fans are creating "Loma haters" by overplaying and exaggerating the ease with which he won, the same way the GGG fans created Golovkins naysayers by claiming he was an ATG before he even fought Jacobs.

When you say outrageous things like that, people will think "now hold ona second you're exaggerating, it's too early to say that" and they will "oppose"that fighter,not because they don't like him but because thatfighters fans are just getting overexcited.

 

A Real ATG doesn't need internet fans to proclaim he's an ATG, it willbeobvious to everyone who watching. I believe that's the case withLoma but his fans are setting other people up for disappointment by over hyping him

 

Apparently all 3 Judges don't know either huh?

I Like lomachenko and think he's the best in the world but the outcome of this fight was not clear until the last moment

 

Compubox Linares 207 landed
Lomachenko 213 landed.

I think we can all agree the average Linares shot is harder.

Get over it guys, Lomachenko had a competitive fight. Everyone does.

 

Of course they can be wrong but the point is the fight was competitive.
I wouldn't have Linares up, but anything until 85-85at the time of the stoppage is within a reasonable range.

For me the clean effective punches countand all the footwork and tapping set-upsand distractions dont count in scoring even if they can(and in this case were) a useful tool forsettingup a big shot.

Same reason why I had Hopkins beating calzaghe. 99% of what Calzaghe landed was just not a legitimate "clean effective punch". Even if Calzaghe is a much more extreme example andLomachenko is obviously very capable of putting someone on the seat of their pants unlike Calzaghe at the end of his career.

If you only count the shots with bad intentions then the fight was very close and imo that is almost indisputable. If you count footwork and taps/feints then different story

 

Maybe, but the Mike Tyson mega fans for example just get the Tyson haters even more riled up. Same thing with Leonard back in the day and more recently with both Mayweather and Pacquiao. Maybe it starts with some animosity but the back and forth between the fanboys and the haters makes the feelings just way more passionate and escalates the hate until one or both "sides" just become blinded by it