Vasiliy Lomachenko Vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. @ Lightweight — Who Wins?

I do not like Floyd, but he would make this look easy. I’d go as far as to say that he would beat the snot out of Loma.

 

Floyd wins 8-4. I think aggressive counterpunchers like JMM (teo fights similarly) would beat him more dominantly based on styles. That’s why Loma did better against Haney than Teo

 

Loma is too small. Floyd has a significant reach advantage and would use it to keep Loma outside. He has the counter punching ability to keep Loma honest.

 

Loma is my favorite fighter of the last decade, but he ain't beating no Pretty Boy Floyd.

 

PBF knows all there is to know about boxing, except how to lose.

 

Mayweather is bigger and more skilled bad combination for Lomachenko. Once Mayweather picks up on Lomachenko its a wrap. 8-4 Mayweather.

 

I would favor Mayweather but southpaw Judah gave him a lot of problems (I know that wasn’t at LW). Loma is better than Judah IMO and I think his mix of angles and speed would present Mayweather with problems.

However, I still would favor Mayweather because he is a more natural LW and I do think he might start slow but he would eventually start timing Loma. Loma would get gunshy like he did against Lopez and he would fight more cautiously, dropping the middle-late rounds.

I would predict Mayweather by decision in an 8-4 type of fight.

 

Floyd had problems early with Zab's handspeed and power.

Prime Judah was faster than Loma, had way more power, and was a bigger man.

 

Judah was also a mental midget who lost to plodding Carlos Baldomir. I'd give you faster hands and power for Judah but he didn't have the dimensions to his game that Loma has. Once Mayweather figured him out, he fell apart. Just like in every other fight he lost.

 

Yeah, Loma has demonstrated so many different dimensions against fighters of Floyd's caliber. I remember the way he adjusted and systemically destroyed Lopez and Haney...

 

Well if you read my post, you'll see I favor Mayweather in this matchup. BTW, Loma beat Haney on my scorecard, unfortunately for him he didn't get the benefit like Mayweather did in plenty of fights.

I won't comment on the Lopez fight, it was a bad night for Loma. All fighters have them, even Mayweather.

 

Huge Loma fan, but the guy who got outboxed by Teo and beat by Haney isn’t messing with Floyd.

He’s great, but he’s too small to hang with bonafide ATGs at 135.

 

Won't comment on it on because it's indicative of the fact that Lomachenko is absurdly overrated. Not a "bad night", just Teofimo is not Nicholas Walters, Anthony Crolla, or a tiny Rigo.

 

Doesnt have to be at 135.

Both guy's best weight was 130, so it makes sense to have the matchup there.

Floyd kicks Loma's ass at 130 too.

Stop with all these "too small" excuses. Here's the truth: Loma's not on Floyd's level. Not ability wise, not skill wise, not IQ wise. He's always looked like Roy Jones against Nicholas Walters and Roman Martinez level fighters, yet could never translate that in his biggest fights against guys who werent too small for him (Rigo), and it no coincidence.

Floyd would win because Floyd was much better.

 

Anyone who thinks it would be a dominant win either way is kidding themselves or fanboying.
It would be a close fight and neither guy would get stopped both have been proven to be hard to land cleanly on so the morons saying Floyd would land the right hand all night are just fan boys. When has anybody ever hit Loma clean all night?
Floyd would be the favorite based on size alone but I could see it being 115-113 either way but history tells us the judges would give it to Floyd.