Is Loma the greatest pressure fighter in boxing today?

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  1. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    No but Judah couldn`t adapt like Floyd or Loma and paid the price time and again, he reminded me of Meldrick Taylor with a hard punch, but that`s good speed and a hard punch once you worked these two out they were doomed.
     
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  2. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    It`s explained on the vid, he keeps touching the opponents gloves while out of range which makes them counter in a panic because they feel they are being pressured,he`s constantly probing for mistakes and then he`s all over them.
     
  3. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Right hooker?;)
     
  4. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Rigo had a better reach than MAB and a better defense.
     
  5. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Who do you think is a better adjuster , Loma or Usyk?
     
  6. Power_tek

    Power_tek Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Is he even a pressure fighter? I wouldn't say so. he takes the time to read his opponent, at times allowing them to come forward and gauge distance, technique and timing. Iam a fan no doubt, but i have no agenda, i just cant see how he can be called a pressure fighter, yes he applies pressure without a doubt but its rarely from the off or sustained enough to be called a pressure fighter. a pressure fighter smothers their challenger, doesn't allow them to think about or impose their style/fight strategy.
    Loma is far to versatile to be branded a pressure fighter, iam suprised so many agree, in my opinion hes the most difficult to categorize out there. To call him a pressure fighter is ab
    This is probably true but I've watched most of his professional fights and i cannot come to the conclusion that Loma can be categorized, especially a pressure fighter. Iam not saying your wrong your entitled to your opinion, but if it was me id get a better idea of my opinion by watching his fights rather than a video that is purely their to strengthen someone elses opinion, i haven't and wont watch the video but yes loma does do that he even seem to stand on his opponent foot to keep him were he wants him, that's ring iq. He engages and retreats pressure fighters (Hatton for example come forward regardless) Loma is not the same. I sound arrogant i know i don't mean to lol
     
  7. slender4

    slender4 Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    You missed the Linares fight?

    :D
     
  8. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    I only recently heard of Usyk, there was a film study on him and then I saw parts of the Bellew fight where he didn`t have to adjust to much. Linares posed a lot of problems after he floored Loma, we haven`t seen Usyk come back from that kind of situation yet, but I just saw the title of a youtube vid saying Usyk is making his heavyweight debut in May! We are going to start seeing how Usyk can adjust to the bigger men and I feel he going to make some serious ripples myself.
     
  9. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Oh the left hook to the body, sorry I forgot fighters sometimes throw hooks with their rear hand, like Robinson who used to throw a deadly right hook to the body from the orthodox stance, thanks.
     
  10. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    No you have a point, I`ve only seen a few of Loma`s fights, I saw one a couple of years ago and didn`t read much into it because I didn`t know how to analyse fights but I watched the Linares fight and the Rigo fights and he was like an irritating mosquito always keeping both fighters on their toes, Rigo cracked under te pressure but yes it was Loma`s Ukranian dancing that made that a bridge too far for Rigo.
     
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  11. dangerousity

    dangerousity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Come on man if Rigo was too small for Loma he sure would have been too small for Pac and Mab. Both demolish him. And Mab would be by far the toughest opponent of lomas career.

    When I rate fighters I can only go by what level they’ve demonstrated they’re at. You can see this by the level of fighters they fought and how well they did, or common opponents with other fighters and their level e.g beating a fighter much worse than another elite did.

    Look at josh taylor, looked unstoppable but as soon as he stepped up he doesn’t look godlike all of a sudden.

    Loma hasn’t yet fought an elite who’s the same size. Until then it’s hard to tell what level he’s on but based on the eye test, elite.
     
  12. Goran_

    Goran_ Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Loma is the best boxer in boxing today full stop... See my avatar, that's the expression I suspect Loma walks around with day after day, it's the face of a man who's the best in the game & everyone is salty af about it lol
     
  13. Paranoid Android

    Paranoid Android Manny Pacquiao — The Thurmanator banned Full Member

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    Pacquiao is similar in size.
     
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  14. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Nah. He needs to do a hell of a lot more to be up there with Greb and Armstrong.
     
  15. Flamazide

    Flamazide Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    This isn't true.

    Barrera
    Marquez
    Mayweather (even at that time)

    The first two were just more offensively minded but their defense in itself was actually better. Rigo is...pretty overrated to be honest.