Lomachenko recognizes the truth!

Interesting
So does that mean you are a fanboy who cant differentiate?

 

Lomachenko is more skilled in certain areas, and old Rigs is more skilled in certain areas. It's easy to say that the young, bigger, prime fighter is more skilled, but when you look at it, even though Lomachenko is in his prime, he's not outskilling Rigs in every area. Rigondeaux's defense is still better than Lomachenko's even though he is old. Rigondeaux is more skilled at slipping punches. He's still a better counter puncher in my opinion, and Rigondeaux has a better left hand than Lomachenko. Lomachenko is more dynamic offensively, he utilizes a wider array of punches, and his jab is better than Rigondeaux's jab. Lomachenko's legs are younger, so when matched together, he controlled distance much better than the 37 year old. Loma's reaction times were better, that is a skill that comes with youth and staying busy. Rigondeaux has comparatively more power though. He's a more skilled puncher. People ridicule Rigondeaux' style, and claim others are more skilled, but if you made Lomachenko or Crawford only use a pawing jab, and straight left hand, against opponents that were always taller and more massive than they were, they both would have multiple losses. Between the three, I'd say Crawford is the least skilled, yet most dynamic if that makes sense.

 

Loma's face would be swollen mess.

 

I can’t argue against a case for Bud. But factoring all the metrics that are used to measure who ranks as the bes p4p, I think it’s a tight race.

Crawford’s been a pro twice as long and has 3 times as many fights....but Loma in just over 4 years as a pro and under a dozen fights has faced 5 world champions....3 of those world champions have been undefeated and 2 have been undefeated & p4p ranked.

Of course you have to look at overall performances and the fact Loma has a loss...but they level of dominance since has been nothing short of remarkable. 4 fighters in a row quitting on their stool has never been done before at this level.

Bud’s a unified champion at 140....a feat that hasn’t been accomplished in the division since Ricky Hatton did it 8 years ago. So there’s elements that support both boxers having a strong claim for the p4p title.

It’s almost a quantity vs quality debate.

 

It’s not like Loma is taking on low level, light touches with losing records which is exactly what guys with 11 pro fights typically feast on. If you look at guys like Manny, Mayweather even guys like Crawford and Spence....their first dozen opponents all had losing records or little to no professional experience. From that scope, Loma has been facing opponents who are the kind of opposition guys with 25 or 30 professional bouts would be facing a decade into their careers.

Their are always “circumstances” surrounding every fight, yet not every boxer is capable of making grown men on an elite level say “no mas”. That’s usually the last thing boxers want to be associated with....quitting has a stigma in this sport that have career ending implications so most boxers would rather fall on their shield, go out on their back or have the ref save them from enduring any additional punishment vs quitting on their stools.

 

As much as I like Bud, I think you’re being unreasonable with respect to Loma. You can’t blame him for making 4 fighters quit and say he needs to up his competition. Rememeber, Walters was undefeated before he bowed out.

 

Naw I would say he feels the same way because prior to the Rigo fight he said it does nothing for him due to the size advantage. So it’s safe to say he believes TC is still the number 1 pof best