Lomachenko vs Marquez @ Super Featherweight

Loma schools Marquez and GGG on the same night.

 

Loma

 

JMM beats the **** out of BUMLACHENKO¡

 

No!

 

lol @ the poll

 

Lomachenko wins 10 rounds

 

YES! JMM will paquiao bumlachenko

 

Loma will roid himself up to even the playing field and after 4-5 rounds JMM will be shouting no mas to everybody who's willing to listen.

 

close fight but JMM has made his career so its easy to go with him by decision.

 

Loma by total toyage.

 

Lomachenko would decision Marquez wide... Something like 10-2 or 11-1. Roidquez might sparkle Loma, doe.

 

Juan doesn't like to fight boxers with the length and back foot ability to potshot their way to victory, a la Mayweather and Bradley. However, he relishes a technical duel with a less flighty boxer who is willing to compare skills with him extensively at long to mid-range, as was the case when he picked Joel Casamayor apart over 11 rounds (Casa is often described as a "runner", but the label doesn't hold up to scrutiny - he was much more often found operating as a southpaw boxer puncher, basing himself in center ring and exchanging judiciously, only taking flight for significant periods against bigger guys like Corrales and Castillo, or highly aggressive guys like Katsidis).

Lomachenko doesn't really have a choice in that matter. He doesn't have the length or the back foot ability to emulate the Mayweather/Bradley blueprints. If he tries that, he ends up looking like a stubbier Derrick Gainer, running away with no real clue as to how to mount an effective offense. But he won't try that. Ring center is exactly where both he and Marquez like the fight, and long to mid-range is where we're going to see the crucial action go down. Loma is an offensive fighter. He does rely, to an extent, on a higher-end degree of athletic talent to execute. He needs to be able to get into preferred range, let his hands go and emerge unscathed much more often than not if he is to win this fight. Loma is going to have to foray into Juan's wheelhouse to get off and get out clean, and that's where his problems lie. Juan has way more tricks up his sleeve, and he knows southpaws. When it comes to deception, to disguising punches and blinding a lefty to dangers right in front of him, Juan is a genius. Not only a master of reading comprehension, but a master of effecting an opponent's reading comprehension, of seeming to be in position to be hit while he positions himself to do the hitting (i.e. bodily mastery for deception/illusionary purposes, e.g. setting his back hand up by dropping his head over the front hip as if to slip the right jab and come back with the left hook, seeming to offer the opening for a left cross, while carefully keeping his weight on the right foot, ready to beat a committed target to the punch). In a technical duel in center ring, Marquez is poison - as soon as a fighter begins to feel even vaguely acclimated, he'll encounter a new wrinkle.

Juan's range of feints and his mastery of foot and upper body will gain respect from Lomachenko from the outset. Discussion of any proposed matchup involving Loma will inevitably turn to footwork and angles, but what few may consider is how much these factors are a strength in Marquez' favor. Loma's movement is freewheeling, to an extent. Juan's is cerebral. He knows how to conceal subtle switches in angle to set up punches, he doesn't rely on great speed for successful execution, but on deception. Even when genuinely off balance, there is an element of surprise, in that he has shown ability to recover his positioning and calculate the situation quickly enough to make a momentarily emboldened opponent pay with a carefully selected punch to head or body. If Loma is able to make Marquez lose position and take an offensive angle, there's still no guarantee he gets out without taking something nasty in return. Juan's footwork is not conspicuous or flashy, but it is highly intelligent. He isn't fleet of foot, but he doesn't need to be here. He just needs to be smart, and Juan is nothing if not smart. His sneaky tendency to initiate lead foot contact alone will bother Loma sufficiently to low-key muddle him (at least one other Loma opponent understood this wrinkle and used it to his advantage).

While mutual respect will be shown, they will exchange, and early, I have no doubt about that. And I strongly favor Marquez' timing, composure and punch-selecting/punch-combining abilities to begin to establish itself as the exchanges proceed and develop. If Loma becomes discouraged and tries to make it cagey, the fight's already over. He needs to engage, but also to avoid shipping punches in most of the engagements, or else he will be taking more of the eye-catching, cumulatively hurtful shots up and downstairs. I don't see how he does it, faced with a boxing mind like JMM's. Further to that, if Salido can use feints to set Loma up for an overhead phantom punch, JuanMa Marquez certainly can, and to greater effect - he knows how to employ clever level changes to set up his shots, how to guide the right hand in from outside the other guy's peripheral vision.

This is no ordinary camp Lomachenko would be dealing with. Anytime I watch Lomachenko with Marquez in mind, all I can think of is how vulnerable he'd be to the guile of the Mexico City master and his student. Nacho and Marquez are painstaking in preparation. They will study everything that Loma does and show him what Hi-Tech really is. He may not walk on his gloves or turn backflips, but Marquez is the true Matrix boxer in this matchup. Too cerebral, with too broad and sophisticated a range of tricks. Mentally tough and fortitudinally rock solid, too.

 

Loma UD.

 

Forgot mine,


Marquez UD or late T/KO.