I think Mayweather would have beaten Loma at 130

When I made this thread more than a year ago I strongly believed that Mayweather would end up walking Loma down. But now I can't see it. As I've watched Lomachenko more I've realized that I've underestimated him. Mayweather despite being the bigger, stronger man would play the role of counter puncher in this fight. Loma will come towards him because he can't win on the outside. Lomachenko has to come to Mayweather to win the fight. Mayweather will try to land hard right hands to win rounds to hurt or KO Lomachenko as Loma comes walking in.

But what if Mayweather cannot land his right hand? Then Lomachenko will win a decision.

 

By avoiding the right hand. Loma's a southpaw, Mayweather is a already not going to land his jab much in this fight.

 

The old guard is retiring. Those 3 wins stack up pretty well against most of the younger guys like the under 32 fighters. I'm not saying OMG look at Loma's resume, but none of the younger guys really have great resumes right now. Ward clearly has better wins, but he's retired and getting older. Pacquiao has way better wins, but he's shot now. Cotto even though he's shot doesn't really have better wins, but he's faced much tougher competition though.

Also JLC who is regarded by many to be Mayweather's best win racked up a lot of losses and they weren't teenage losses like Pac had or old as **** losses. Well he did eventually start losing a ton when he got old. He was knocked out by guys like Javier Jauregi, Julio Alvarez in his prime. He went life and death with Stevie Johnson twice just two years before he went life and death with Mayweather. Then after Mayweather he was sparked out by Diego Corrales. The point is guys lose it happens and even JLC is nowhere near as good as people make him out to be. Don't get me wrong he's a good fighter, but I've heard some people comparing to MAB and EM on this board. And I'm like son, FFS put down the crack pipe.

 

The irony of people saying Loma can't win because he lost to fighter with lots of losses in his 2nd pro fight. Mayweather went life and death with a man who kept getting knocked out over and over and over again anytime he challenged for the Mexican Featherweight Title.

If you're going to dish out casual **** arguments be prepared to eat it yourself.

 

True he's always landed his right hand, but he's never fought somebody as good as Loma is right now. JLC came close to beating him, but that's not very relevant because their styles are nothing alike at all. And even when JLC gave him a really tough fight it was mostly because Mayweather just had so much trouble stopping JLC from landing. Mayweather was also able to land on JLC too.

 

Then Mayweather runs the risk of being outworked. Mayweather can focus a ton of stopping Loma from landing, but if he does that then Loma will win because Floyd won't throw enough.

Loma is good enough technically that Mayweather is going to have to eat some leather if he wants to land his own. If Floyd thinks he's going to sit back, have Loma follow him around, lower the output and pick him off on the outside. Essentially a Diego Corrales repeat he's going to be surprised because that just ain't going to happen. Completely different styles and skill levels we're talking about here.

If both of these guys come to fight and win then they're both going to get hit. It's just a matter of how much. If Floyd tries to win and not just survive like Rigo did then yes he will get hit by Loma, but he will also land more himself.

 

I believe that neither man is "easy work" for anybody. But let's be perfectly honest here. Neither of these men are completely tested. To say that they are totally and 100 percent tested against the very best of the best with those fighters in their prime is not true.

Mayweather is without a shadow of a doubt an ATG, but his resume lacks "the test man". He's never fought a truly great fighter in their prime. How does he react against somebody like let's say a prime Roberto Duran, a prime Pernell Whitaker, a prime DLH, a prime JCC? We don't know and we never will know.

As for Loma he's in the same boat. He's never fought anybody great. He just hasn't despite what his superfans want to say.

If Loma and Mayweather fought at 130 both men would be in completely uncharted territories. To say otherwise is wrong.