Lomachenko next for Walters-Donaire winner

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God i hope this is true a couple weeks ago there was talk of his next opponent being some Top Rank chump prospect, Gamaliar Rodriguez IIRC, which would be very disappointing.

 

I hope this is true. Didn't hear about it until now.

But what a poorly written article... Unacceptably bad.

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"This would be an excellent fight, but it would be awfully tough on Walters and Donaire, because neither of those guys are in the same league as Lomachenko in my view." - Yeah, that's good reporting bro. Nice to see this guys' opinion in the second paragraph of a news story.

"Piriyapinyo is a fighter with a badly inflated resume based on weak opposition instead of the quality fighters that Lomachenko has been fighting since he turned pro. Lomachenko will make easy work of Piriyapinyo." - What quality fighters that Lomachenko has been fighting since he turned pro? I get Salido. Great fighter and balls of steel (literally, haha) to face him in his second fight. You can't really argue to any great extent that Piriyapino is inferior to Loma's first opponent and you can't really argue that Piriyapino is inferior to Gary Russell Jr. especially when the argument the author makes is Piriyapino's inflated record... Russell Jr. is the epitome of that. Piriyapino winning 3 rounds in an exciting fight over a faded Chris John is more proven than Russell's career, arguably. And once again, nice opinion that Lomachenko makes easy work of him.

"You can’t blame Arum for wanting to rush these fights, because if he doesn’t push Donaire or Walters in with Lomachenko then sooner or later someone will beat them, and then it’ll be too late for Arum to match them against Lomachenko." - Wow. The author acts as though it is impossible for Lomachenko to face whomever the future conqueror of Donaire/Walters would be. And he forgets that Donaire and Lomachenko are no young bucks, especially for their weight and in the case of Donaire, his mileage.

"Ideally, Lomachenko needs to move up in weight to the super featherweight division and then later to lightweight for him to face the likes of Terence Crawford and Raymundo Beltran." - Yeah, because anybody can jump two weight classes with ease and the odds that Crawford and Beltran are still at 135 and relevant when that time comes is some sort of assumed thing, according to this author.

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East Side Boxing, you are much better than this garbage! Do something about it!

 

Agreed

Lomachenko is 26 and a couple years younger than Walters and Gradovich, Nonito is turning 32 soon....

 

OK, I thought he was 28... my bad. Pretty fresh then.

 

Loma is miles ahead of both guys skill wise.

Both have very poor footwork for the elite level. Both have the power to make things interesting though, yet Loma looks to have an iron chin.

 

Yet quite a ways behind Donaire in ring IQ as evidenced in the Salido fight. Lomachenko made no adjustments whatsoever until pushing for a knockout in the last round or two.

Loma's footwork didn't look good against Salido at all for most of the fight, either. Salido is the kind of fighter that is made to be outmaneuvered and to showcase footwork against (Gamboa would've been in trouble if he didn't have it, Mikey showed it that night, while all of Salido's biggest wins are generally over plodders). And that fight is 33% of what we have to go on when it comes to assessing Lomachenko.

Your claims may turn out to be true in the long run, but at this point they are extreme claims, at least what you say of him relative to Donaire. Jury is still out on Walters, but he will have the chance to showcase himself this weekend too.

 

126 is a great division, very possibly the best in boxing

 

We need to keep in mind that for how stacked the deck was against him in the Salido fight, Loma still accounted himself well.

He was never hurt, and he nearly KO'd Salido. Salido was HUGE, and while his style is very exploitable by boxers, he came in with enough headbutts and lowblows that it made it extremely difficult for a guy with 1 pro fight to adjust.

Donaire looks like he lost some of his soul against Rigo. He never had great fundamentals, and he never will. He seems extremely exploitable by a boxer who can take away his power shots, and the blueprint to beat him was laid out emphatically.

 

Maybe but Walters sure as hell isn't Rigo.

 

Great news, but who wrote that article??

The standard of writing on this forum is far better than that!

 

[url]http://www.city-data.com/forum/boxing/2068644-what-wrong-dan-ambrose-boxingnews24.html[/url]

 

Thanks.

That guy Scott Gilfoid is even worse though

 

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