How would you rate Vasily Lomachenko's career overall

Great career and it could and should have been so much better given the absurd amount of talent he was blessed with and his otherworldly skill level

As I keep saying, 135 is only his 3rd weight class because he turned pro four months before his 26th birthday. He weighed 129lbs in the ring for his pro debut, just 3lbs about the division limit and had he turned pro the same age as many of his peers in his teens it would be at least his 6th weight class. If he turned pro the same age as Manny it would be like his 8th or 9th because he was campaigning at atomweight at that age with same day weigh ins but all this ever so predictably gets completely ignored

And if he did turn pro at the same age as so many of his peers and fellow greats he would be at least a six or seven weight world champion. You can try and argue otherwise but you are wrong. He's never lost to a smaller fighter in his life, all of his losses as a pro came vs fighters who were way bigger and heavier than him or obscenely bigger, heavier and longer
And given he should've become undisputed at 35 y/o at 135 when past his best vs a way bigger gigantic 135 pounder who weighed 20lbs more than him with a near six inch reach advantage, in their backyard on a deck which couldn't have been more stacked against him tells you everything you need to know about that.

Imagine Loma vs opponents who weighed 10-20lbs less than him? He was a mismatch against opponents his own size for goodness sake, let alone smaller or much smaller than him

There's a reason why he looks absolutely tiny for 135 and his opponents look way bigger than him. Because he is and they are. Compare how Crawford looks in his 3rd and 4th weight classes to his opponents at hose weights and how Inoue looks at 118 and 122 vs his to how Loma does at 135 to his. It's literally night and day and if there is any size disparity between them and their opponents it's either not noticeable at all or barely so, whereas, conversely, there is a very stark contrast to how Loma looks to his opponents

When this photo was taken

135 << Loma here
130
126
122
118 << Inoue here

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He should only have one loss as a pro and he only has one loss as an amateur which was avenged x 2, so that's 2 legit losses in 424 fights and he never got the chance to avenge any of his losses as a pro because Salido, Teo and Haney all ducked him. The only reason he has 3 losses is because of corruption rearing its ugly head again

Imagine watching the Salido fight and actually thinking that Salido shouldn't have been DQ'd? Literally over 1/3 of his total punch connects were low blows and so many flagrantly or outrageously low but the corrupt as sin ref didn't even deduct a single point from him or give him a hard warning for hitting Loma over 50 low blows

He clearly beat Haney too, a 20lb heavier Haney, with a near six inch reach advantage, in Haney's backyard, with a home ref and three home judges, a 36 hour weigh in for a fight between the bigger 135 pounder I've ever seen and one of the smallest ones we've ever seen. Decks don't get more stacked than that

He fought GRJ in the US with a US ref and 3 US judges

Teofimo in the US with a US ref and 3 US judges

Haney in the US with a US ref and 3 US judges

Name one current American fighter who has ever fought a world title fight in their foreign opponent's country with a home ref and three home judges. I'll wait.

Not only have any of them ever done this but none of them ever will in their entire careers. Loma did it three times in 21 fights and he was robbed by judges in all of them.

One of the judges scored the GRJ fight a draw despite Loma dominating the fight with ease

One scored the Teofimo fight 119-109 despite Loma winning the vast majority of rounds in the second half of the fight

They all scored the fight for Haney when only 17 or 18k of the 118k of fans who voted in FightHub's poll scored it for Haney

But so many ignorant clowns expected him to return to the scene of the crime to get robbed again and robbed of a huge part of his legacy (just like GGG and Kovalev to name a few were) vs Twink and Shakur where he would have to win via KO to come away with a draw and do something that none of them have ever done once in their career or ever will do once in their careers.

 

The fact he won over 400 amateur fights and lost just once in all that time should tell you how incredible his skill level is. You don't think he suffered injuries and had bad days at the office during that span? But he still was able to maintain a level of consistency that no other amateur great ever could despite that

This is his trophy cabinet

He won every single tournament he entered as an amateur in almost 400 fights sans one where he came second. Just think about that for a second

One solitary silver medal in an ocean of gold

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Another absolutely insane stat

He conceded only 7 points when he won the gold medal at the 2009 World Amateur Championships despite the fact he broke his hand in the tournament. Just 7 freaking points in the whole tournament. Most amateur greats concede that amount in single fights

'Even a broken hand couldn't stop Lomachenko as he won gold at the 2009 World Championships in Milan while compromised. In that tournament, he beat his five opponents by a 56 point margin, outscoring them 63–7.'

And again

'Lomachenko won gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and avenged his 2007 World Championship defeat to rival and reigning world champion, Selimov, in the first round. He beat his five opponents by an astonishing 45 point margin, outscoring them 58–13, en route to his first gold medal at the senior level. He was subsequently named the outstanding boxer of the tournament and awarded the Val Barker Trophy. His dominant run was described by one historian as "probably the most impressive streak in Olympic boxing ever."

Additionally, he won gold again that year to also become continental champion at the European Championships in Liverpool, conceding just 4 points against his four opponents

I don't think there is any amateur in the history of the sport no matter great they were in the amateurs or pros who can boast such insane defensive stats as those and even more impressive Loma isn't a runner or an octopus

This is supernatural type stuff