If Salido beats Loma in the rematch....?

I really doubt it, but it's a hypothetical question.

If Salido beat Loma again, I wouldn't call Loma a hype job (he has enough good wins to prove he's a top player + Salido is a tough stylistic matchup for Loma), but it obviously adjusts his p4p ranking in a major way.

Fully agreed on Salido being a warrior, even though he does fight a bit dirty sometimes.

 

He's getting him a job at uber cabs



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The fight is virtually agreed, they're just trying to get the stadium sorted.

It will always remain a stylistically tough fight, the way B grade Maidana was against Mayweather. Loma IMO still has weaknesses that hasn't prepared him fully for a rough, elite pressure fighter (although in a far, far lesser form than in his 2nd pro fight).

Loma needs both time and space till he works his magic over the course of the fight. If you give him both, he'll figure you out like no other fighter in history could ever figure out a fighter. Usyk has shown the same requirements here. This IS a limitation of his game no matter how much anyone tries to redress it, so much so that I'm not even confident Loma even won the first couple of rounds against Gamalier Rodriguez (edit: it appears he has been improving further since the Gamalier fight, but he's still not quite there yet).
Egis Klimas told Melissa McCarthy of HBO Fight Game that Vasyl firmly believes NO fighter will make it the distance against him at this stage of his career.

All of this said, Loma should KO Salido at this stage or win a very impressive UD.

If he loses to Salido, it does damage my perception of Loma somewhat. It'll show to me that he couldn't learn from his mistakes from the first fight and that he's 'too stuck in his own ways'. I'd still think he can put on a performance against non-stylistic threats like no other.

 

I actually think it will be another 'no mas' within 8 rounds

 

Good to hear that the fight is basically agreed, and insightful analysis.

I'm amazed that Loma always beat everyone in the amateurs despite tending to take a couple of rounds to figure his opponent out. Amateur fights are short, but apparently he managed to work his magic in the limited number of rounds there. What's the difference? Is it because he knows he might need to go 12 so he conserves energy at the start?

Would be interested to hear your thoughts (+ CST, jmashyaka) on this.

 

I tend to agree, if Salido feels he's got no practical chance he'd probably go wild and get KO'ed rather than quit in the corner.

 

I expect Loma to ko Salido in the return.

If Salido wins we might just have to accept that Loma isn't as good as some people think.

Me personally, I think he has the potential to be the best FW to LW fighter in history.

For me that means he has to prove to be better than Armstrong and Whitaker. To do that he avenges his loss to Salido, cleans out the division over the next 3 years and then beats the top dog at LW.