Obviously, the Salido fight showed he has the tank for 12. Pretty obvious after Loma put the pressure on Salido late and was close to knocking him out.
Years of 2X daily professional caliber training and turning over with your engine practically built will help you with that. There's a case to be argued for him being green in some aspects (then again, that can be true of guys with 30+ pro fights, so ingrained stylistic/attitudinal traits aren't necessarily overcome with experience), but he was generally way ahead of the typical amateur turning over. Or due to the competitive nature of the fight. Against the right opposition, a fighter can go at a consistent pace that he alone sets, because he's facing a lesser degree of resistance. Put simply, pacing is made easier. With other guys, you've got to put more effort into winning rounds, so you might need to take/legislate judicious breaks between building up blocks of success. Loma was clearly the better man, but Russell was able to go with him - it would be unrealistic to expect Loma to win every round in a truly competitive matchup like that.
I HIGHLY doubt ANYBODY in boxing will ever come close to replicating a career and legacy like Duran's. And that's ok. Loma's currently blazing his own trail and building up his legacy, we should just appreciate him as a fighter, his skills and talent and gifts, and the way he is single handedly evolving boxing present day. Loma doesn't have the frame Duran had, and their talents and gifts are very different. Just appreciate them both for what they are, there is no need to keep comparing, contrasting, and defining one as better than the other. The only thing in history - not just sports - that I can think of to relate to Loma and his career right now: The German army blitzkrieg at the start of WWII. The entire boxing world has been put on notice, and every fighter wihin a division or two of Loma has the hair on the back of their neck standing up on edge. If there is a boxing equivalent of Alan Turing, you better believe he is furiously at work day and night working with his fighter because Loma is bringing it like the apocalypse right now. The boxing world is straight up in shock and awe. It's getting ****ing WILD in the west again.
Lomachenko is, by far, the most skilled fighter in boxing history. The haters will think of anything to diminish his accomplishments, he won two gold medals, has already won tow titles in two difference weight divisions is only 10 fights! Who else has done that? Before he beat Rigo all the haters were claiming that Rigo would easily knock him out, that Rigo would break his bones, hell Angel Garcia said that Lomachenko has zero chance! Not to mention so many others. All the hate proves how good Lomachenko really is.....................
It was the same with the Rigo/Cuban Boxing School crowd five years or so back. You tried to tell them that Rigo was a bit 1D and they'd bark back that it didn't matter because his dimension was the most unbreakably dimensional dimension in the history of boxing. That, and 463-12. Crazy.
Great article about the Duran DeJeus era that I picked up from the classic forum for anyone interested. [url]http://thegruelingtruth.net/boxing/esteban-de-jesus-roberto-duran-y-aids-1972-89/[/url]
Lomachenko is still early in his career....................he has just started...................... This content is protected
I've never heard Uncle Bobby say that Crawford was the best fighter since Ali was in his prime. That's 45 years by the way.