R1 - Haney R2 - Loma R3 - Haney R4 - Haney R5 - Haney R6 - Haney R7 - Haney R8 - Loma R9 - Loma R10 - Loma R11 - Loma R12 - Haney First of all this was an excellent boxing match. High level stuff. However it was hard for me to give Lomachenko any rounds prior to Round 8. Although he edged out R2 for me. Haney’s body shots, spinning with Loma’s angles, left hooks and right hands, kept him ahead. Loma always looked to answer everything that Haney came with but fell short most of the time. Round 8 is when Loma began to assert himself and Haney started to fade. Rounds 10 and especially 11 Loma dominated and those were the most one sided rounds of the fight. Even more so than round 5 and 6 from Haney. The left hand could not miss and his combinations coming from so many angles had the physically and mentally fatigued Haney befuddled. Round 12 was close but Haney dug down and took it. For talented, young, high IQ fighters, fighting Lomachenko is mentally taxing. They can can perform great in the early rounds but his pressure always breaks through. Then they start to lose focus and he turns it up. At the end of it all, he looked like the fresher fighter when the final bell rang and the rounds that he did when in the later rounds were more dominant but he just didn’t do enough early on. 7-5 Haney, who should not be taking the crap that he is taking for the decision. He showed that he’s not a hype job and is a highly skilled fighter and displayed it last night against one of the best in recent years. BTW, my pre-fight prediction was Lomachenko by MD. Excellent scrap. A fast paced chess match.
Yup 115-113 if I gave Haney round 12 or 114-114 if I gave Loma round 12 Still can't decide who won round 12. Overall coming out of the fight I was impressed with Haney's bodywork where Loma couldn't get much if anything off.
i did not score it yet but it did not seem like haney won 6 or the first 7 felt closer after 8. Do agree on round 12, the only round I really scored attentively
