Lomachenko vs. Broner

No they couldn't You seem to think that everyone on the US team is an 18 year old. Raushee ****** has been considered the US' best amateur at the last two olympics and both times he failed to get anywhere near the medal rounds.

Lomachenko has been winning medals against the best Cubans and Russians in the world, in the meantime the average US amateur failure missed out at the trials and has been fighting cans for his first 15 fights, putting his boxing game even further behind. Lomachenko is fighting top opposition without the headgear in the WSB, before turning pro this year. He'll be moved quickly and start in a far better position in the pro game than the guy who has been feasting on cans to build up his name. Some fighters love the sport and they love their nation, the olympic gold means more to them than anything else. Hardly wasting your time winning an olympic gold, that's what every American amateur used to dream of before they couldn't compete successfully on the world stage.

 

The American olympic team IS made up of teens,and guys who nobody wants to offer a contract to.
How many Rausheed ******s has there been? How many Americans hang around for 2 Olympics??

And lets not forget that large areas of the world dont take amateur boxing seriously.

Latin America outside of Cuba has a culture of people going pro REAL young.

All the great Mexicans.Nicaraguans,Panamanians,Argentinians didnt care about picking up medals and not getting paid.

 

Are you Irish, or yet another American who claims to be Irish due to some tenuous antecedence? There are credibility issues on the line here.

 

I am quite fond of Russel Jr., actually, and I readily concede the point that he is more proven as a pro.

What makes you think he'd work Loma as a pro, however? Russell? To date, it's doubtful that he has defeated anyone in the pros as good as Loma is now.

 

Why the **** would any red blooded American claim to be Irish?? :huh

 

No,Im from Limerick

 

More ill founded comments. The pro game and the amatuers are vastly different sports, a point that seems to rountinely escape you.

Khan has a style that is perfect for the amatuers. How well has that style been working for him lately?

See my point?

 

Khan had a cheap in and out, unskilled style as an amateur and he still has it today. He's had equal success in both amateur and pro with it. He was rocked on numerous occasions as an amateur, same as a pro.
They are the same game, a point that seems to routinely escape you.

 

Don't be stupid. Amateur boxing is ruled by European countries whose goverments put time, effort, and a lot of money into keeping their best amateurs in the amateurs. They're essentially pros, all they do is train and fight under the best trainers money can buy, with the best sparring out there. This is why most top amateurs are in their mid to late twenties. They could turn pro but stay amateur because they're getting paid and are rockstars in their countries.

And Lomachenko won the Olympics at 20 and 24. He couldn't win any earlier because he was 16 and ineligible. So the first time he was eligible for the games, he won.

Other countries don't have such a developed pro system as the US, so it makes sense for them to stay amateur longer. If they turned pro, they would be matched tough and used as opponents unless they have amateur titles and pedigree to point to.

 

+1 your last several posts d_w.

 

Well your a top notch idiot. Cheers. Cool story

 

If they were half as good as you think, they'd get paid a lot more and still be rockstars in their countries.

You didnt see Wlad Klitschko stick around the amateurs when he won his gold. He could have stayed amateur and won another gold, but of course he didnt. He went and made real money in the pros.

And it didnt seem to hurt his popularity either

 

He's not a pro yet , while Broner is a champ, but Loma looks more talented and I think he has a chance to become a greater fighter than Broner.