Better fighter: Shakur Stevenson or Bam Rodriguez

34-35 is old for a leprechaun division fighter, especially for one who came up from the malnourished leprechaun child divisions

I favour Inoue to beat Bam-Rod but if he waits until Inoue is 34-35 who knows what Inoue will have left then. He might have already lost or lost multiple times by then. Be on the way out. Have already retired.

 

It's a super fight, probably the biggest fight which can be made in the sport right now outside of AJ vs Belly, and certainly in terms of P4P prestige, and there would only be a few pounds and 0.5'' in reach separating them. Crawford jumped up 2 divisions to fight Clenelo but, as with Inoue and Bam-Rod, the size difference was minimal and for all the David vs Goliath talk beforehand, he was actually fighting someone very close in size, as would Bam-Rod be vs Inoue. Inoue would be fighting someone much bigger than him in Espinoza. In terms of weight it wouldn't be that much but in terms of weight + physical dimensions it would be.

If ''hype job'' Loma could routinely be outweighed by 2-3 divisions, whilst also giving away huge amounts of reach, fighting in is opponent's backyards with home refs and 3 home judges often, in what would be bare minimum his 6th or 7th weight class had he turned pro at the same age as these American young starts and P4P stars and greats, vs massive weight bullies who fought him in their 1st division, then why is it too much to ask them to do a mere fraction of what he did routinely, and in their own countries on a deck stacked in their favour or at worst an even one?

The size difference between Bam-Rod and Inoue, and Crawford and Clenelo, is a fraction what Loma was often giving away but people will act it's a David vs Goliath scenario for them. A past prime 35 y/o Loma fought a 20lb heavier, six inch longer reach (or just under) Haney in Haney's backyard, with a home ref and 3 home judges, a 36 hour weigh in. for goodness sake in what, as said, was Haney's 1st weight class and what would've been at least Loma's 6th or 7th had he turned pro at the same age as Haney but very likely more than that. The size disparity was obscene and that's an insane amount of weight and reach for a leprechaun division fighter to give away

We have never seen any of these guys ever do that or even close to and I guarantee you they never will or even come close to doing so, let alone in their opponent's backyards with a home ref and 3 home judges when 35 years old and past their prime and if anyone suggested they do so it would be universally deemed outrageously unfair and highly unreasonable.

The only other P4P fighter doing what Loma was in terms of routinely facing much or way bigger guys is Usyk and so many of the others multi-weight modern ''greats'' from the US are either huge weight bullies fighting opponents they're much or bigger than or ones roughly their size but they get hailed as gods for doing so or slaying leprechauns or at worst fighters their size on a deck stacked in their favour by the same clowns who dismiss fighters like Loma as a ''hype job''

 

I wasn't aware you had and my post obviously wasn't directed at you at all.

But for all those who do actually believe that, bump this thread when we see any of his North American peers or this next generation of young P4P stars giving away 15-20lbs and six inches of reach their 6th or 7th weight class and fighting the biggest punchers in those weight classes in their opponent's backyard, let alone doing so numerous times