Vasyl needs to learn how to counterpunch in place (i.e., without relying on having an angle). He also needs to learn more varied defensive techniques, such as rolling (with the head or with the shoulder), parrying, and deflecting, none of which relies on absorbing punches at full impact to defend. Lomachenko's head movement was getting timed, and when he used the high guard, he kept getting moved back and around by Teofimo's power punches because the high guard requires punches to be absorbed at too high of an impact, even if you are moving your hips/upper body a la Marlon Starling. If Anatoly is not going to teach Vasyl these things and Vasyl is not going to teach himself these things then Vasyl should fire his father and get a trainer from Detroit. Those guys know all these old-school tried and tested defensive techniques.
Exactly! I could see if he threw from the start them stopped the rest of the fight. Plus, he didn't increase the output of his left, like many fighters do when they injure a hand in the middle of a fight.
Thoughts: is it over? or the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end? The man has lost that air of invincibility. The aura that surrounded Lomachenko, has been snatched out of the ether. Excuses abound; too small, bad execution of game plan and now the final nail in the excuse paradigm: the injury, replete with photos and gory detail. A man of wax accepts his failure gracefully. A true great goes back and commences a return like the Phoenix, but only on merit and without excuses. It will have to be done the hard way. The Jury is out on this one.
When Lomachenko did let his hands go he was the superior fighter in there. However he was outsized by a much younger and fresher opponent.
thats me right there. when i let my hands go im frickin invincible. its when the other guy lets his hands go too that i run into problems.
First off i am not a fanboy as you describe it of any fighter, i have posted in threads here prior to the fight that i wanted and thought that Loma would win, postfight i gave deserved praise to Lopez for his achievement, so fanboy NO! I do not know your knowledge of actual boxing or insight into the physiological effect of how much a boxers body goes through in a 12 round bout. But i know for a fact that a anaesthetist would never choose, to administer a anaesthetic that causes a loss of sensation or awareness, to someone who has received numerous damaging punches to head and body over a 12 round bout within 2 days of the fight, that is unless the procedure needed to be carried with that speed after the bout, Loma had procedure in that time scale. If a operation can wait to be carried out until after a boxers body has had time to recover from the effects of the fight, then the clinical outcome/prognosis for optimum recovery will be enhanced
I just hope he can recover and get back to normal. But that probably is a wishful thinking. His injuries looked bad. Won't be the same excellent fighter he used to be.
That's not what I said was it? Loma's skills were still clearly superior than Lopez's when Loma let his hands go and they both engaged. Watch Rounds 7-11. Still, enjoy your victory.
