Here's Why The Resume Of P4P No. 1 Lomachenko Trounces Bud Crawford's By A Country Mile.

Thread Co-Produced by @CST80 and @Serge

Much has been made over the last few months about who the true heir of Mayweather is for the coveted spot atop the mythical P4P rankings. Many a candidate have come and gone, almost as if the position is rejecting pretenders to the throne karmically. First it was Kovalev and Ward, Ward lost the first fight to an unfocused lazy drunken Kovalev and got a gift, then came back the next year against an even more disillusioned depressed emotionally compromised Kovalev who he fought on even terms with again, until Ward decided he couldn't win fair and square so he smashed Kovalev in the balls countless times, to win a tainted TKO victory. Then before he could be crowned the Dirty P4P King, Ward realizing that he needed two matches to beat the shot shell of Kovalev, that he probably would get badly ****ed up by the younger hungrier versions of him at Light Heavyweight, so he took the easy way out and promptly retired, so another potential number 1 flew out the window.

However there was another heir apparent that got upset inbetween the Kovalev/Ward saga, poor old chubby grumpy munchkin Chocolatito. He decided to duck a Cuadras rematch to go with the "easier" option, and had yet another back and forth toll taking bloodbath against the unheralded Thai monster Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, which he rightfully lost, despite all of the bleating and blabbering by the legions of butthurt fanboys. Then looking for redemption, he chose to rematch Wangek, and instead of rising like a phoenix from the ashes, he got flattened like a scowling bitter little gnat, by way of crushing and beautifully savage KTFO4, it was the definitive Fall Of The Roman Empire, with a sriracha marinated cherry on top. So another contender for the throne outta the way. Sadly Sor Rungvisai aside from his back to back to back masterpieces where he collected the two top shelf scalps of Roman and Juan Francisco Estrada, the rest of his resume leaves a lot to be desired. So no Number 1 spot for the Thai yet, but another P4P win or two might do the trick.

Still holding out for a hero, the boxing world turned our lonely eyes to Canelo and Golovkin, thinking surely this one won't be controversial. GGG beat Canelo, but in Vegas Baby, you have to drop Canelo 8 times and KO him twice to get a ****ing SD win, and GGG didn't do that, he just beat him 8-4, and anytime a fighter has the audacity to not win every single round, Adelaide Byrd spitefully gives every last one of them to his opponent. That being said, GGG and Canelo was a very competitive match with neither man truly asserting true dominance in the ring, and even though I thought it was a clear GGG victory, a draw isn't the most egregious call. So... we had to wait a little longer for the inevitable rematch for a P4P savior, but Clenelo's penchant for scarfing down platters of Chepo's Chimichangas made from roided up cows had to be assuaged, so he went to town, and there went the rematch. Canelo instead of pursuing the rematch any further, realizing he didn't have juiced up bovine rocket fuel to fall back on, he probably couldn't beat GGG outright, and since on top of being viewed as the loser of the first fight, and with the added animosity felt towards him for his doping positive, he figured he couldn't win, so he pulled out of negotiations for a rematch like the little pampered punk he is. Yet still no P4P number 1.


Which brings us to our last two contenders.... Omaha Bud and The Man They Call NoMaschenko.

In my mind, its crystal clear who the P4P number 1 fighter in the world is as of right now, the question has been definitively answered beyond any shadow of a doubt. Yet still people (who DKSAB) question the validity of this choice. Well I'm going to go all out in an effort to explain in brutally demonstrative fashion why Vasyl Lomachenko is the man. This isn't meant to throw shade on Crawford's in ring abilities, they're dazzling, he's one of the most skilled slick defensive operators the sport has seen since the early days of Pretty Boy Floyd, but no matter how great he may be, that doesn't change the fact that his resume is just okay at best, at worst, its kind of pretty ****ing crappy.

Since this will probably fall on deaf ears.... Here goes nothing.


The Resume Of Terence "Bud" Crawford.

Briedis Prescott - His glory days of knocking the ever lving dogcrap out of Amir Khan, had long since gone, his best accomplishment post Khan KO was... there wasn't any. He lost to glass jawed douche Kevin Mitchell, the thoroughly average Paul McClosky, the annoyingly unpleasant Miguel Vazquez and was beaten to a pulp by Mike Alvarado before he started taking his Mile High moniker too seriously. By the time he met Terence, Briedis had become a mere journeyman, who's lost to every decent opponent he's fought post Bud schooling.

Alejandro Sanabria - So so Mexican who's best wins were over a shot to hell Rocky Juarez and a SD over equally shot to hell Nery Sanguilan, and a loss to hot and cold glass jawed loser/heavy handed beastly upset artist Robinson Castellanos. Most Bud fanboys don't even rate this win. He was a stay busy opponent, brought in to lose. He retired from the sport immediately following his loss to Crawford.

Andrey Klimov - Pesky featherfisted Russian, who's one and only claim to fame was outboxing John Molina Jr. and he barely did that, after he lost to Bud, he went on to be shutout in dominant fashion by Jose Pedraza and Liam Walsh, both eventual Tank Davis KO victims, then recently he lost to Alejandro Luna, who got decapitated a few months later by Richard Commey. And Bud played it extra safe against Andrey, and put on a coma inducing borefest that had Lampley near apoplectic that he actually had to sit there and commentate on it, and he wasn't exaggerrating, it was an truly awful viewing experience.


Ricky Burns - Ah, The Rickster... what an impre... thoroughly underwhelming subpar win. Ricky had already lost his 0 to future Lomachenko and Mikey Garcia KO victim Rocky Martinez and add to that he was on his way to another lopsided loss to the glass hearted Jose A. Gonzalez, who was beating his ass so viciously he broke his wrist on him and had to quit, had he not, he'd have probably won, he was ahead on the cards in Glasgow. The version Bud fought had been viciously tenderized by Ray Beltran who literally shattered Burns iron jaw in the second round. Beltran got a draw, which lemme translate, is a win in the UK. Immediately following the loss to Bud, he got beaten from pillar to post by Dejan Zlaticanin, mauled by Figueroa, mauled by Relikh and got a gift and lost to the uncoordinated gawky beanpole Indongo and to Crolla the son of Linares. Totally overrated win.

Yuriorkis Gamboa - Oh boy, the one the fans always love to bring up, the one I predicted would be a relatively easy Bud KO victory. Luckily for most fanboys of Crawford, most of Gamboa's recent matches had been on PPV or virtually unwatched HBO cards, so his hype far outweighed his actual in ring accomplishments. He went life and death with Salido and was dropped hard in the 8th, the match was far closer than the scorecards reflect, at best Gamboa won 112-111, that's 7 of five rounds before factoring in all the KD's and point deductions. Yes Gamboa went through even more hell against Salido than Lomachenko did. He went on to look okay in beating tough as nails Filipino journeyman Michael Farenas, who almost managed to KO him as well, dropping him in the 9th, that Boxrec tries its best to hide. He looked poor in beating De Leon, and once again looked poor beating Darlys Perez, it was clear to anyone with a few functioning brain cells that Gamboa wasn't living up to his hype and was on a downward spiral, especially when you factor in that he was moving up in weight against a much taller man. It was a brilliantly played sleight of hand by Bob Arum, to all the casuals it looked like a world class P4P win, to the rest of us, we expected it. Since then Gamboa has gone on to be dropped several times and quit against Castellanos, get dropped by Rene Alvarado, barely beat via MD Alexis Reyes???, and lose to Loma KO victim Sosa, and get a ridiculous gift. The win hasn't aged well.... at all.

Raymundo Beltran - Good old roided up Ray, the chronic overachiever with his UD losses to Bogere and Ramos and KO loss to Ammeth Diaz, wait... I'm pretty sure if Loma was fighting a guy with a KO loss to Ammeth Diaz and UD losses to Ramos and Bogere he'd be considered a bum, what do you guys think? After being shutout by Bud in one sided fashion, he got on the juice and brutally KO'd Takahiro Ao, which he was stripped of, then KO'd a bunch of other glass jawed okay fighters, probably still on the gear. Then he nearly got KO'd by fidget Bryan Vasquez and went life and death with old ass Paulus Moses. Okay win, nothing spectacular.


Thomas Dulorme - No great wins coming in, he had a brutal KO loss to Luis Carlos Abregu though, one I predicted. He barely scraped by Mayfield and had a controversial win over Lundy, who dominated his ass through the last 5 and debatably should have won. Since losing to Crawford, he was brutalized by Yordenis Ugas, but did a valiant job regardless. Its a damn good thing Crawford managed to stop him, since going into the 6th Dulorme was ahead on 1 card and Bud was 1 point ahead on 2, so Bud wasn't even doing as good as Abregu.

Dierry Jean - Cleotis Pendarvis and Jerry Belmontes. That's it. Next!

Oh wait... he was shutout by Peterson, and had a drug problem going into the Crawford match. Completely worthless win.

Henry Lundy - I like Hammering Hank, but come on, the man while he poses a few problems for his opponent due to his rough and tumble nature, loses every time he steps up. Molina KO'd him, Postol barely UD'd him, and Beltran beat him barely, so he's below those three. Stay busy fight for Bud.

 

Viktor Postol - His best wins going in, a ridiculously too close for comfort win against Lundy, a late TKO win over Guerrero and Soto Karass victim Selcuk Aydin, and after playing stay away for the majority of the match, lucked out and landed the perfect punch that momentarily blinded poor shot to **** Lucas Matthysse, who was coming off of two unforgiving brutal matches against Provodnikov and Molina Jr. Lucas was overripe for the picking. After Crawford hauled ass and put on a deplorably cowardly performance against Postol, Viktor went back to Ukraine and got a gift against the undefeated Jamshidbek Najmiddinov, who violently dropped him and didn't get credit for at least 2 other KD's. Najmiddinov basically schooled Postol for stretches of the match. This is one of Bud's top two wins.

John Molina Jr. - I love John, but the man can't box his way out of a paper bag, and a wet one at that, he was losing every round to Lundy and Bey before scoring come from behind KO's, he got schooled by Humberto Soto, schooled by Martin Honorio, schooled by Adrien Broner, KO'd in 1 by Demarco, because he was too stupid to take a knee, and utterly brutalized by Lucas Matthysse. So what are we supposed to take away from this win?

Felix Diaz - While I really like Diaz, let's be honest, the man tends to struggle in every match against opponents with a pulse, while personally I think he was robbed against Peterson, he did wait far too long before putting his foot on the gas. He struggled early with Bracero and had far too many too close for comfort rounds, IMO he barely beat Granados in spite of dropping him twice, it was a toe to toe war. His big win was over Sammy Vasquez Jr. which for what its worth, was IMO a slightly tainted win, since Sammy was suffering from a tumor on his pituitary gland in his head, which was kinda sapping him of his much needed energy, and even then the match was damn 6-4ish close. After losing to Bud, he went on to have his ass absolutely beaten senseless by Chia Santana, who while I love as a fighter, the man is a tough journeyman at best, no elite fighter has any right losing to him. Felix who's perhaps Bud's best win, was dominated by a 24-6-1 fighter.

Julius Indongo - Hype job pure and simple, most of us knew that Troyanovsky was a glass cannon, some kept their mouths shut about it (me), some shouted it from the rooftops (IB). The man came within a hair of being brutally KO'd by Claudinei Lacerda and was rocked to his core by Obara, Indongo threw and landed (with his eyes closd) a lucky punch, that's it. Well he did beat Burns, but who hasn't? Prograis nuked his ass into next week, stopping him a round quicker than Bud, dropping or hurting Julius with almost every barely landed punch. Only the most naive fans view this as an impressive win.


Whew Okay, now that that's out of the way, onto...

The Resume Of Vasyl "Hi-Tech" Lomachenko.

Jose Ramirez - Okay, not great, but certainly not bad for a debut opponent. Loma managed to stop him via vicious body shot that literally had him rolling on the ground, Mares took a round longer to stop Ramirez, Valdez a round less. But since then, Ramirez almost managed to upset Golden Boy's at the time undefeated prospect Manuel Avila, losing via SD.

Orlando Salido - Did he lose to Siri? That's debatable, most knowledgeable judges and even fair minded posters on here, including myself, had it a draw, a close points victory could be argued for Loma, but I have a hard time seeing how anyone could judge it in favor of Warlando. I went into the match biased, I'm a huge fan of Salido and picked him to upset Loma, I thought it was a bridge way too far, way too soon for him. So for someone expecting him to lose, I was pleasantly surprised to see him adjust midway through, and take over in the second half and almost manage to stop Salido in the last round. That's a rarity, most opponents start wiling under the pressure, even Mikey was looking for a way out after he was done dirty, and found he it. Even the great Juan Manuel Marquez started to fade late and lost a few to Orlando, Siri is the finisher, not the other way around. Well Lomachenko tore up the rulebook and wrote a new chapter of his own. So... even though he was screwed over by that rotten piece of **** Laurence Cole, screwed by the corrupt judges, he still managed to turn the tide after being hit in the balls over 100 times by a Welterweight who didn't even try to make weight and finished the fresher stronger man gunning for the KO. Think about that for a second... when the hell does a prospect who's longest match gone 5 rounds in the WSB, jump headlong into a 12 freaking round match? Certainly not Mikey Garcia who's first 12 rounder was his 20th match, and guess what, neither did Terence Crawford, his first 12 rounder was in his 22nd match, and that was against Ricky Burns, Both men had more than their fare share of soft touch 4 to 6 rounders. Not Loma, he got thrown right into the deep end, and not only did he learn to swim (while not getting wet), he was swimming better and stronger than a guy who'd been 12 rounds more times than Crawford and Mikey combined. That's truly remarkable. Imagine being tossed in with the dirtiest player in the game, in a 12 rounder, when you haven't even had an 8 rounder, most men's stamina is gone by the 7th or 8th, especially against a savage grinder like Siri, and those are seasoned pros, but not Loma, he was ready for 15 in match number 2, and had it been, he'd have KO'd Salido.

Gary Russell Jr. - Going in, every one knew how good GRJ was, only he hadn't had a chance to prove it, he with the fastest hands in the west, aside from Vyacheslav Gusev, had fought nothing but Mexican journeymen, albeit KOing most of them in horrific fashion, so in many ways it was a step up in class for both he and Loma. Well Loma laid on a beautiful schooling boxing Gary's ears off for the majority of the not even close to close match. Gary's true worth has shown in his post Lomachenko resume, where he's savagely KO'd in 4 Mares conqueror and fresh off of a beat down win over Jorge Arce, tough as hell Jhonny Gonzalez, it was easy work for GRJ. Then onto his horrific thrashing and near retiring off tiny little war horse Oscar Escandon, who's resume sports KO wins over Jesus Cuellar, (you know, the guy everyone (but me) picked to beat Mares), and more recently he stopped Robin Hood Castellanos, the same guy that beat the crap out of Corrales and got robbed, and stole Gamboa's soul and made him quit. Last but certainly not least, Gary beat his very highly touted fellow 2012 Olympian JoJo Diaz in a close competitive match. This underrated win continues to age like the finest if fine wines.

 

Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo - Thai journeyman, stay busy match, nothing to see here and certainly nothing special, but still managed to beat him with literally one hand tied behind his back, since Loma injured his halfway through.

Gamalier Rodriguez - Not a great win either, his best win was Siri KO victim, Orlando Cruz, it was yet another time wasting stay busy fight for Loma. Nothing special again.

Romulo Koasicha - Third nothing special in a row, even I was starting to get frustrated with Top Rank at this point. For what its worth, Loma beat him in a far more dominant fashion than Brit featherfisted wunderkind Lee Selby.

Rocky Martinez - Here's where business started to pick up again. It wasn't shocking that he beat Rocky, who was coming off of two back to back wars with Salido, the first he managed to drop and badly hurt Siri twice and win. Rocky has a damn impressive resume, holding wins over Bud victim Burns, the undefeated and touted Diego Magdaleno, and the very solid Juan Carlos Burgos and Miguel Beltran Jr. Even in his losing effort to Mikey Garcia, he gave Mikey some real issues, dropping him hard in the second, in a similar manner to the Linares KD of Loma. Well Loma topped Mikey in two ways that night, Loma was not dropped by Rocky, in fact he was barely touched, and he violently and I mean violently KO'd Rocky in 5 rounds, it took Mikey 8.

Nicholas Walters - Sure he has KO wins over blown up Bantamweights in Vic Darchinyan and Nonito Donaire, not impressive right? Wrong. Frampton just went through hell late against a rampaging Donaire who hurt him several times throughout their fight, and Vic went life and death with Cuellar hurting him on several occasions before Cuellar stopped him. Still to this day The Axe Man is the only man to have stopped Donaire, a feat even Rigo The Great couldn't pull off. Walters went on to beat Marriaga, handing him his first 0, far more impressively than Oscar Valdez, who arguably lost to Miguel, and after that went on to basically shutout Jason Sosa coming off of a vicious KO victory over Jerry Belmontes, and somehow inexplicably only managed a draw. The Axe Man was viewed by many as an elite P4P talent or damn close to it, and he was well on his way to being just that, until he got caught in The Matrix, got lost along the way and hasn't found his way out since. Wherever he's at, he's probably still blubbering.

Jason Sosa - Sure he has an early KO loss to a far bigger man on his record, Tre'Sean Wiggins, who's currently campaigning at Welterweight, but since then he been rampaging his way through Super Featherweight like an overachieving monster. After violently KOing in 1, the guy that took Figueroa to the brink Jerry Belmontes, he got his introduction to the big league in a trial by fire against Walters, and wasn't burned, in a match that while he lost most of the rounds, he did enough to keep almost all of them competitive, crowding and smotherng his way through the match giving Walters absolute hell. After that he went on to be the first and only man to KO brutally Javier Fortuna, who since then has come back to hand a loss to undefeated PBC talent Omar Douglas and in many observers eyes hand Robert Easter Jr. his first loss as well, hurting Easter several times in the process, but of course Fortuna didn't get the win. Fortuna is a very underrated win for Sosa. Sosa also racked up an impressive win over Stephen Smith who'd been on a roll stopping skilled Italian operator Devis Boschiero. By all rights Sosa should have a win over Yuriorkis Gamboa, in a match Lederman had in his favor. I count that as a win for him regardless. Sosa is a damn fine little fighter, and Loma's dominant TKO win over him is vastly underrated.

Miguel Marriaga - Marriaga stopped Christopher Martin and GRJ did not, he KO'd Guy Robb far easier than Joel Diaz Jr, and put on a fight of the year caliber performance against Oscar Valdez and IMO should have taken his 0. Think about that, Loma stopped the guy who beat Valdez, how great would that sound? But of course it was a Top Rank show, and the judges weren't as fair as they should have been. Not a brilliant win for Loma, but a damn damn solid stay busy fight. Marriaga is also one of his heaviest handed opponents, who Loma chose to go to war with to put on a show, something his other opponents weren't brave enough to attempt.

Guillermo Rigondeaux - Do I really have to talk up Rigo and his greatness? He only was a mainstay on P4P lists for 5 years after his masterclass schooling of Donaire. So I'm going to focus on the size issue instead. Now much has been made of the size differential between Rigo and Loma, it wasn't a factor in the least, because when someone is skilled enough, like with Mayweather, Pacquiao, Ward, Jones Jr., Hopkins and Leonard moving up, skills still pay the bills, and its not like Loma had a massive power edge. Rigo's power may have been lessened by the move up in weight, but you never know, it may have increased, it happens. But who knows, he never landed a damn thing. Regardless, Rigo with less power still probably equaled Loma's overall power. So its possible no one had the edge there. As far as weight goes, I doubt Rigo walked around a svelte trim 122 24/7 365 days a year, most likely he walks around in the ballpark of 135. As far as the height advantage of Loma, its not all that great, Rigo has faced giants that could conceivably be fighting at 154 like Amagasa and Flores, both of them the same height as Postol, who fights at 140. Rigo dealt with them with relative ease. Age wasn't necessarily a factor either, after all Jazza, Chucky and Hisashi aren't what I'd call old codgers, they're all kind of spring chickens. Like those two old coots Mayweather and Wlad, the skills in the end matter more than any perceived height, age or weight disparity. Now once you take into consideration Bud's best win being a blown up midget Featherweight, and directly following his match against Rigo, Loma moved up to face a far bigger man in Linares, and recently Inoue destroys a guy he started 3 divisions beneath. Does size really matter here? No, it doesn't. This is a P4P caliber win to end all P4P caliber wins, he literally embarrassed a P4P Top 10 fighter into quitting. What is more P4P worthy than that?

Jorge Linares - For anyone who mocks Linares for his losses to DeMarco and Thompson, I hate you. You're not a true fan of the sport and you're a repellent human being. Linares fought his heart out with his nose nearly falling off, he boxed beautifully winning almost every round against DeMarco until the loss of blood from the profusely bleeding cut on the bridge of his nose and over his eyes got so great, he was literally wearing a crimson mask, and still no quit in Jorge, finally the ref mercifully stepped in, in the end, that loss in my eyes was more impressive than many fighters wins. It was amazing the amount of heart he showed, and how well he dealt with pressure and adversity while under immense fire. He came back far too soon, his eye got cut early again, Thompson smelling blood jumped on him, the doc stopped it far too early, but for Jorge's eyelid, it was probably for the best. Since then like a phoenix rising from the ashes, for real this time, he's gone on a brilliant winning streak, with wins over Nihito Arakawa, the at the time revitalized Kevin Mitchell, then on to 2 back to back dominant wins over Anthony Crolla, who went on to beat yes... Ricky Burns, his underrated win over Luke Campbell who holds impressive dominant wins over Derry Mathews, Argenis Mendez and Darlys Perez, and most recently Mercito Gesta. The skillset of Linares is immaculate, and his handspeed and timing are things of beauty, there's a reason why so many purists were salivating over the idea of Linares vs. Mikey. He's one of the most talented fighters in the sport today. And Loma was the smaller man moving up in weight, and for some reason pulled off a feat Rigo didn't have the heart to accomplish, oh yeah... because Loma tore it out of his chest and ate it.

The reality is, all I had to do is this.


Loma: Linares, Rigondeaux, Walters Russell Jr, Marriaga, Sosa, Salido

Crawford: Diaz, Postol, Gamboa, Beltran, Burns, Lundy, Indongo.

Come on? Who the **** are we kidding here?

Now All Hail The King, The King Of Kings!!!

Czar Vasyl

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