lomachenko proves how vital learning the pro game is

He learnt infinitely more about the pro game last night than Joshua and Campbell will have from 20 fights with journeymen. It's a shame a loss is seen as having such a devastating effect on a boxing career.

 

Lomachenko has proved he can mix it at that level now.

Thats all I got from it.

Nothing devastating about the loss.

 

Buster, boxing needs to get away from these pointless career build up fights where fighters can have 20+ fights and not even be involved in a 'real' fight.

MMA has got it right, you get wacked in there with people with similar talent from the get go. There's no reason boxing can't be the same, then we can see the end to all these pathetic 49-0 records with just a handful of meaningful fights in those 49 fights.

If fans didn't react so badly to defeats then that would rub off on to the fighters and then the promoters. People act like it's the end of the world, which it isn't, Bernard Hopkins lost his first fight. **** happens, you carry on and work on getting better.

 

I get what your saying but I also get what the others are saying, we've got two extremes here of how to bring a fighter along. As we know fighting is all about styles and I thought that even though they might of picked the perceived weaker champ here for Lomachenko they could of made a blunder because he's a top pro who knows the game with bags of experience and a real tough nut to go with it. He's better than his record shows when you look at the fighters he's been in with and I wouldn't really take much notice to some of his earlier losses. On top of all that he came into the ring as a welterweight, any featherweight in the world would of struggled with that. Lomachenko though showed that he can fight at that level although as you rightly say experience was the difference. It all depends how you look at him losing his his 0 and whether it's important. At the end of the day he probably learnt more from that fight than 20 fights against no hopers which seems to be the norm these days specially with British prospects. I was impressed with him and his potential and I expect to see him fighting from now on against a mix of styles against top rated fighters, genuine top 15 fighters. If this has affected his confidence as you mentioned it might of then he's never gone a be a top fighter anyway. All the great fighters of the past have come back from setbacks/unexpected tough fights stronger and I expect him to as well. I'm looking forward to seeing him in with the Mikey Garcias, Nonito Donaires etc in the future with a few more good fights under his belt. I'd also like to say I was impressed with his post fight interview, he came across as a class act with a good professional attitude.

 

I don't think fighting Salido initially was a mistake but fighting him after he missed weight and came into the ring as a Welterweight was. The dodgy ref certainly didn't help matters either.

 

I think he still will.

 

he had 6 WSB bouts not 30