decent fighters, decent wins. however i do agree with you that his resume isnt anything special. i would say loma at 140lbs would be outsized alot, so if it that is his limit and beating the top men there it will be very good for his record, i say he stays at 135lbs for a while yet. but then again, he would ruin fighters like robert easter, beltran, campbell. Linares is a elite topdog fighter at 135lbs other than that theres no one at the weight worth fighting. Josh taylor at 140 for example would provide a bloody good challenge for lomachenko.
Linares is much bigger and also very fast ,technical fighter while loma is featherfisted , so I think it’s a very close fight and loss will not make Loma a hype job, it will just prove that most of you overrate him a bit.
No just overrated, I do rate lomechenko but i still see him as untested by prime elite fighters, Rigo was tiny and 37 years old, sosa , walters and Russel all solid opponents but they are not elite well accomplished fighters, linares is by far the best opponent he has faced, his 2 wins over crolla and Campbell were world class, Campbell is also underrated people forget that he is also an olympic gold medalist and in his prime. Linares when he is on form, focused and in a big fight steps his game up a level, This is a legit great fight. No shame in losing to linares doesn't make you a hype job, but if loma schools him then the hype is for real, and i won't be questioning it anymore. I have always thought he could be the real deal, i just wanted to see if he can perform the way he dose against truly elite fighters.
I find it amusing. I keep reading these posts saying Linares is bigger. Linares is tougher. Linares is X, Y and Z. Loma will win this fight convincingly. He will make Linares look average. Will he stop Linares? Don't know but it wouldn't surprise me. The only thing that might happen, that will get a rise out of those questioning Loma's abilities, is Loma may get tagged once or twice. Other than that, Loma puts a beating on Linares. But this is the same kind of banter that we hear prior to many of GGG's fights as well. (I'm not suggesting GGG is as talented as Loma, because I don't think he is. GGG is just much more powerful and has a granite chin.) Then when the "star" challenger is smashed they invariably say he was never any good, that Loma's or GGG's opponents are chumps. No, they are not chumps. Loma and GGG just make them seem like chumps the way they dispatch them.
Idk, was Luke Campbell written off as just a hypejob after losing to Linares? If anything I think his performance in the loss to Linares turned Campbell in the public eye BACK into a superstar after having lost his initial prospect luster.
Not at all. He's already the greatest amateur ever, and in the pros a 2 weight world champ, fastest world champ ever, fastest 2 weight world champ ever, has 4 or 5 solid wins, and is P4P number 1.
Not really, he's testing himself on a new division against a very good opponent. I think 130 down he's proven but at 135 there's still unknowns about how he'll deal with size, also Linares may turn out to be a bad stylistic match up for him.
Loma looks the most unbeatable fighter in boxing right now at this present time. But upsets do happen and Linares is a very good fighter in the top 15 P4P at least and Loma is moving up in weight. Saying that, I think if a loss does occur I'd imagine it'll be a close points and Loma would do what he did to Albert Selimov ( his only loss in the amateurs) and avenge it ( he avenged the Selimov loss 3 times I think)
I don't get how people claim Walters was inactive, he had an 11 month layoff, I'm sorry man but for me that's too little to be considered a factor. In modern boxing that much time off is pretty much normal in between fights.
I was just replying that same post. Claiming Walters was inanctive sounds like bitter grapes excuses. 11 months off at age 30 is not a long layoff. A good fighter simply got outclassed.
Regardless of how he loses he’s far from a hype job.. he could retire tonight and still have done enough to prove he’s one of best boxers today. His amateur record is enough regardless of what he’s done as a pro. Anyone who likes amateurs know it’s almost impossible to do what he did especially going in the best competitons too.. Then to come into pro and have this ridiculously good resume in like 11 fights is just unheard of
This is pretty much the formula for any lauded fighter: He's 'fought no-one' until he loses and when he does he's 'overrated'. Loma has upset the equilibrium by getting his loss out of the way early, leaving detractors in a state of confusion...