he needs to ball his fists up when he's punching. he needs to stop punching with his mouth open. he chains his punches together well. he doesn't look super fast or strong. i saw him in the olympics and he's a clever boxer. the pro game is a lot different. he knows how to box and has been in with some of the best in the world so that's a start. they don't just give away gold medals. you have to earn them. he's got something.
he was very good at point sparring, blows as a pro and wont go far unless extremely well watched against utter **** fighters.
If anybody can win a pro title, how come so many have failed? As an Olympic Champion and a Val Barker Cup winner, he was already a legend. If he had won a 2nd Val Barker Cup to go along with that second gold, I'd agree that he had gone higher. But IMO he was already proven it all in 2008. NO, I wouldn't because I would've turned pro after that 1st gold. I wouldn't have taken the risk of a serious, career threatening injury for a second gold medal. Money is relative. He may have made good money, but he hasn't earned real money. In boxing, Leonard/DeLaHoya/Tyson/Mayweather money is REAL money.
Put him against ioka kazuto watch him get raped to death. Put him with yaegashi akira and yaegashi kills him. Roman gonzalez doesnt just Ko him he puts him to sleep and into the next life. No way in hell shiming becomes anything significant all the top light flyweight and flyweights and even some of the minimum weights like joyi miyazaki ryo katsunari takayama all give this guy hell. He didnt really deserve that gold medal in 2012
:nono Lomachenko is a hell of a fighter but Howard Davis Jr. won the gold medal and the Val Barker award(over SRR and the Spinks brothers) at the most competitive Olympics in the sport's storied history. It was also the last Olympics without headgear.
The Olympics were everything because it was all they were allowed That must be why so many of them defected the first chance they got. I don't believe that bull**** for a minute. Almost no one can make it to the top level without a love of the sport. They wouldn't have the dedication necessary to put in the work it takes to even build the fundamentals. Those guys are sinners who had problems in their personal lives while Lomechenko is some kind of saint who floats two inches above the ground while thinking pure and holy thoughts about his legacy and love of the sport. "I'll believe that when me **** turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet." --- Super Troopers The guy has dedicated a major portion of his life to beating people up. Don't try making him out to be some humanitarian. A cure for cancer, it ain't.
