What's next for Lomachenko?

Firstly, Crawford might be five months older than Loma but he has way less miles on his clock, is obviously much bigger than him, took up the sport aged 7 years of age compared to Loma being 4 years of age, and he had way way less amateur fights (70 compared to Loma's 400 + including the WBC)

Loma has become very injury prone in his 30s and had to undergo multiple surgeries on career threatening injuries. I can't even recall hearing about Crawford being injured, let alone having to undergo surgeries.

And in complete contrast to Loma who is tiny for his third division, is routinely giving away huge physical advantages at that weight, and even down at 126 and 130 he was often giving away weight/reach or both, has rarely been the bigger man, and has fought lots of punchers, many bigger or much bigger than him

Crawford was gigantic for 135, very big for 140, big for 147, has been rehydrating lots of weight at all three of those weight classes, much more than Loma did at his first one, has rarely been the smaller man (even in his third weight class), has often had a significant weight, reach or both advantage, has never been at a reach disadvantage in any of his world title fights, let alone a near six inch one, and has barely fought any punchers

How many times has Crawford been outweighed by 2 or 3 divisions? I'll confidently wager never.

How many times has he even been outweighed by 1? Not many.

Even up at 147 he weighs roughly the same as his opponents and I would hazard a guess the most he would ever have given away to any of them would be about 5lbs.

Loma is routinely outweighed by 2 or 3 divisions and it was 4 against Haney whilst giving away reach all the time, almost always a significant amount, and often a huge amount

Fighting opponents much bigger and heavier than you all the time, and lots of big punchers or KO artists much bigger than you, is going to take more of a toll on your body than the reverse.

 

As for what he should do regarding his career. He should retire. Anyone who knows anything about him knows his dream has always been to become undisputed which is the reason he's moved up in weight in the first place - because the other champs at those weights openly ducked him or wanted nothing to do with him or fights against them couldn't be made for whatever reason.

He didn't move up in weight because he was a massive weight bully who was huge for the weight and was rehydrating a ton of weight like many others


And don't forget that he's the one who put in all the hard work unifying three of the four belts individually on the road in a division full of giants he doesn't belong in and then he fell at the final hurdle of achieving his dream against a the way bigger murderous punching Teofimo who didn't belong in the division either but for the complete opposite reason. That would've been incredibly demoralizing.

Massive weight bully Teofimo who like Haney looks like the living dead on the scales won three in one fell swoop in his own backyard with a home ref and three home judges off a blown up 126 pounder he's way bigger than.

Haney won them all in one fell swoop against Kambosos who is the biggest champ he's fought but he still weighed a lot more than him

Then after that Loma had to regroup and start from scratch again and when he did so he was cruelly denied his place in history when he was robbed against yet another gigantic 135 pounder massive weight bully in Haney who weighed 20lbs more than him in, you guessed it, Haney's backyard with a home ref and three home judges in tow which, as I've explained a million times, only happens in one country in the world for world title fights and it's extremely commonplace

Now that chicken**** Haney has ducked the rematch people expect an old 35-36 year old Loma to start from scratch again, to try and win the belts all individually again on the road in the US after he's already been robbed twice over there and he knows the same fate very likely awaits him again should he do enough to get his hand raised.

One of the three US judges scored his fight against GRJ a draw even though it was one-sided ass whooping

One scored the Teofimo fight 119-109 even though Loma clearly swept the vast majority of the rounds in the back half of the fight

One of the three US judges gave Nakatani 2 rounds even though it was a one-sided brutal massacre

Loma got to go through all these killers like Teofimo, Haney, Twink who he would've fought had the later not been ducking him like crazy for seven years, Shakur etc. even though, as said, he's a tiny for the division and is a blown up 126 pounder who is routinely giving away huge physical advantages at that weight that no one else in the P4P top 10 is least of all any of them

And they're all bigger or much bigger than him

And as said he's got to fight them in their country with their obligatory home ref and three home judges

Meanwhile none of these clowns are fighting each other or facing opponents who weigh 2-3 divisions more than them (or 4 in Haney's case).

Most of them aren't even beating champs their own size or 1 division more than them FFS, let alone ones who weigh 2 or 3 divisions more than them with close to six inch reach advantages

Haney hasn't ever beaten a single world champ close to his size yet

Shakur never defended his belt at 126 because he was massive for the weight and he only managed 1 at 130 IIRC before he lost his title on the scales due to not being able to make that weight

Loma never once received an opportunity to avenge any of his losses even though they were all against opponents who weighed 2 or 4 divisions more than him and one should be a win and the other a DQ win or a win on points at absolute worst and the only reason he has 2 of those losses is because of corruption rearing its ugly head again

Do you have any idea how demoralizing all that must be, let alone for a 35 y/o past prime vet who has spent 30 years of his life doing grueling training and fighting for most of that time?

 

''Terence Crawford older than Loma, is he old? No,” said Haney to a group of reporters recently. “They not saying that he old, don’t say that Loma's old. Now all of a sudden he got old overnight.”

--- Devin Haney

Floyd 2019: ''Lomachenko needs to fight as many fights as possible, extremely quick!, because he's very very old''

Tank 2019: ''Loma an old man. I'll retire him''

Devin Haney 2020: ''Loma is too old too slow''

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Shakur Stevenson

Interviewer: ''You saw Loma recently, how was that?''

Shakur: ''Yeah I seen him. He looked small. That's what I really was thinking. He's tiny for 135, I just moved up and I felt way bigger than Lomachenko''

Interviewer: ''He's like a natural featherweight''

Shakur: ''I think he should go back down. I think he'd be a lot better at 130''

"Devin is too big. Like, I think the size ... don't get me wrong, Lomachenko can fight. Devin is way out of his weight class. He's going to make 35 and then shoot up to 150 or 160 nine times out of 10, and Lomachenko is going to be 137 or 138, so it's just not even fair to me."

“I think he [Devin Haney] smokes Lomachenko.


“I didn’t like the way he looked against Ortiz. I saw him in the gym two or three weeks ago, he looked like a 126lb fighter, he doesn’t look like a 135lb fighter.

“I think Dev is too long and tall.”