I mean he might go on to have a great career or he might lose his next fight, I don’t know.. What I do know for an absolute fact that whatever his legacy will turn out to be, it won’t have a prime Loma in it, that has already been written.
Loma simply started too late as a pro it will be hard for him to pull it off unless he gets busy fast.
I don’t think that Loma was significantly past his prime vs Teo, but yeah. Taking an L at that age kind of lowers your stock value. So Teo gets credit for beating Loma going on a big unbeaten streak, still near/at prime age… Tank if he fights Loma will be an older, beaten version.
Also please don't forget the excuse injury he claimed for the loss. As Marlon Starling once said "In boxing after every defeat there is an injury".
Where he had claimed this one? Do you have elementary logic? If Loma was so bad then Lopez too today should be considered as bad boxer. If Loma was able to win 10 title fights in 3 weight classes and WAS BAD, then US boxing too is not good if " bad " boxer was able to do this. When you devalue Loma, you with the same step devalue Lopez and US pro boxing till it's core. I think for you it is very difficult to understand and get.
I had asked point where Loma by himself had expressed excuses? You can't do this? BTW I do not follow Loma social profiles. Maybe I should start do this, if he does have here so high number of haters, maybe I should subscribe for these channels and like his posts, videos and other thing? If pro boxing orgs based in US had allowed Loma, boxer you hate, to do more than 10 title fights in pro boxing in 3 weight classes, then where is target to blame: your hate or ABC etc like stuff. Get this, you are a bit ridiculous.
At 33 h should be plenty peak enough especially since he turned pro in his late 20s and has hardly taken any real damage in any fight in his career up to this point.
I wouldn't say 25 is late 20s, still, 33 for a smaller fighter is getting up there with age. He's been boxing since he was 5 and has continually sustained some kind of hand/shoulder injury in pretty much every one of his last 6-7 fights. He also just took an L, and regardless of how in prime he actually is.. It's just not as good to beat a fighter coming off a loss. (Yeah I know he just had a fight, but Lopez loss still very much lingers).. It is what it is. Nobody considers Loma a p4p #1 guy anymore. I think stylistically, his style is not made to last well into his 30s.. He's a boxer, but one that depends heavily on footspeed and athleticism, I think more so than someone like Floyd. He's also a smaller guy now in his fights at LW, he's just not enjoying any real advantages. I think even in the best case scenario, say Tank fights him now, whilst I think it'd be a good win for Tank, it's not as good as if he got to him before Lopez did, IMO. When he had all the hype. I don't personally see it happening any time soon (maybe I'm wrong on that), I think it might happen maybe in 2 years.. I guess it depends on what Lomachenko does in that timeframe, he might have some really big wins that will bring his stock back up.. I kind of lean on the pessimistic side.
No doubts that he isn't top lad at 135 lbs anymore and most likely never will be. I think for me more comfortable is to agree with all Loma critics. Loma now is just former champ, he was average boxer like majority of these former champs. No doubts that never will be HOF bull**** material or bull**** ATG. This means that Lopez too is nothing special, lads, please do not hype Lopez up and dream about HOF or ATG for him. Lopez is nothing more than casual average belt holder. Win vs Loma never should rise him to HOF or ATG and everyone should know: Lopez is nothing special. Lopez is guy who just did not had his ass kicked yet, sooner or later it will happen. Hype train will die when he will lost 1 fight. It will happen.
"Muhammad Ali called himself 'The Greatest', the people are calling Lomachenko 'The Greatest' " Bob Arum