If Lomachenko vs Josh Taylor....

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  1. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Assuming Loma goes up to try for his 4th weight championship, how do you see this fight?
     
  2. Eggman

    Eggman "The cream of the crop! Nobody does it better! Full Member

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    Honestly loma would get smashed up, he was struggling with the size of Campbell never mind someone of josh Taylor’s physically and skills

    would be a step too far
     
  3. Jackman65

    Jackman65 FJB banned Full Member

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    Too great a size difference. Loma is very small at 135. Taylor is too big for him. I think a fight like this, even if Loma can pull it off will dramatically shorten his career. He’s not a young guy and is done growing. His best fights are at 130 or below. He says he can still make 126. Maybe a fight with Inoue after fighting Berchelt on the way down, after unifying 135.
     
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  4. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Lomachenko has reached his ceiling as far as weight classes. Josh Taylor would run him over.
     
  5. Willie Maeket

    Willie Maeket "40 Acres and Mule" -General William T. Sherman Full Member

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    I wouldn't mind seeing it if Vasyl wants to challenge himself to see if he really is "The Matrix", even though his latin daddy Salido already spanked that ass and shoved a red pill up it. Josh Taylor is a welter weight faking it at 140 and needs to stop weigh draining and move up to his true weight of 147.
     
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  6. hoopsman

    hoopsman Boxing Addict Full Member

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    And by "spanked that ass" you mean fouled his way to a razor thin, contested victory in which he was hanging on for dear life in the the 12th.
     
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  7. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Loma doesn't have Floyd's freakish reach (I'll wager or at least I suspect that Loma has been at a reach disadvantage more times in a third or possibly half his 15 fights than Floyd has in 50 and I'm talking as much as 5-7 inches sometimes), Manny's freakish Asian Chi-Force Bruce Lee shocking power or either of their PED suppliers to keep moving up through the weights and if you actually do your research you'll be aware of the fact that when Loma was 16 (ie. the same age Malnourished Manny turned pro at) he was campaigning all the way down at 106 which is the lowest weight class in amateur boxing so even if he was smaller than that he had but no choice than to campaign down there and if he was a pro he would've been campaigning one division South of that at Straw weight ie. the lowest weight category in pro boxing.

    135 << Loma here now
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    126
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    105 <<< Loma here aged 16

    So if Manny who started out at 106 aged 16 and is very thick-set and unusually powerful for his size (hence why he can hurt and drop 160lb + career 147 pounders and boiled down 154 pounders), and absorb their shots with his massive melon head the size of a small planet and weighs about 10lbs or max 12lbs more than Loma him campaigning at 147 is like Loma campaigning at 135.

    Which other fighters in the P4P top 10 are regularly giving away the kind of huge physical advantages Loma and Manny are? Both weight, reach and Height?
     
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  8. Furey

    Furey EST & REG 2009 Full Member

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    Taylor too big.
     
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  9. timeout

    timeout Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Josh Taylor is too big. He's a 160lber thats being weight drained by Mr Booth constantly.

    Hence his stamina is shockingly bad after 6rds. A bit like drainello.
     
  10. KingKO

    KingKO El Terrible Full Member

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    Booth? He was with Shane McGuigan until recently.
     
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  11. timeout

    timeout Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Your right, my mistake. He was under Shane. But he is going to booth in rhe coming week.