is loma feather fisted?

Not at all he can punch a bit when he sits down on his shots. He's not a huge puncher but he does have good power when he wants to use it. He prefers to throw light shots and combos a lot of the time, but when the mood takes him he'll put his weight behind shots too. His body shots in particular are heavy and hurtful when he decides to sink them in with some venom.

Some fighters who've shared a ring with him, be it sparring or a real fight

Oscar Valdez ''He hits hard''

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Tevin Farmer ''He got pop. He ain't a one punch knockout artist but he got pop''

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Erik Ruiz ''He has power''

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Sam Maxwell on facing Loma

*Maxell was a big lightweight, more a natural junior welter, whereas Loma was a natural feather when they fought each other in the WSB (at 60KG ie lightweight). There is no featherweight division in the WSB*

Your old rival Vasyl Lomachenko was in action, obviously you’ve done 10 rounds with him, what is it like to box him?

He’s got that many plans in his head. He’s just the most intelligent boxer I’ve ever boxed. He plans three or four moves ahead. He’ll do a feint, you’ll see him do the feint and he’s just judging what you’re going to do. Later on in the fight you might have forgot about it but he’ll do that feint again knowing what your reaction’s going to be and he’ll counter it.

He’s very accurate, his punches are very accurate. He doesn’t waste any shots. He caught me with some good body shots as well. He’s more like a correct hitter than a massive power puncher.

But enough about Lomachenko, the only guy to beat him [in the amateurs] Albert Selimov, I stopped him. I knocked him out.

I was ringside for that as well…

It wasn’t like he was beating me, it was a close fight and I stopped him. I could have won that on points.

Three back hands in a row and he got like a double cut. And I just pointed it out to the referee that he was cut [laughs]!

He has put the draining defeats to Lomachenko behind him and moved up to his natural weight category, 64kgs. “At the time it was devastating because I felt like I didn’t perform well. Because he was so good it made me feel like I did rubbish but looking back on it now, I got two fights out of the way, 10 rounds with him. He won a world title about three or four fights later. He was at that level already. That’s all I can take from it. Second fight I did a lot better than the first fight. It’s a positive. He was literally at a world class standard then. He should have won it in the second fight against [Orlando] Salido.

“Watching it back as well, first minute I’d be throwing about 50 shots, one-two, one-two. Maybe [Lomachenko] would throw five shots but he’d look like he was winning the round. Even to me watching it, he looks like he’s winning the round even though I’m throwing all the shots. His ringcraft, he puts you where he wants you, he knows when to go, when to not go. He’s just brilliant,” Maxwell continued. “I’d love to be able to do that. Winning the round by slipping and pushing me where he wants me to go without throwing a shot.


“He must feel unbeatable. It was at 61kgs, so I was drained as anything. After one or two rounds I started feeling the pace then. This year I’m at the right weight, I’m feeling good and strong so that’s not going to happen to me this time.”

Andrew Selby on facing Loma

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Loma opted to use his power more in the GRJ fight than he has in some others. He landed some withering body shots, and some really nice hooks and uppercuts in that one.

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