Loma's first 8 fights comapred to Mayweather's first 18 fights.

Must we really do this, honestly these kind of comparisons do nothing but sully the name of the fighter most of the time..

It's apples and oranges, one turned pro at 18, the other at 25, regardless of anything Loma was going to have a tougher start to his pro career because he simply doesn't have the leisure of time to develop himself for 5 or whatever years, nor is there any need for it either.

 

Loma will be retired by his 30th fight. He'd have unified, defended, and beat the best over multiple divisions.

 

Ok look at Beterbiev, faced Cloud and Campillo in his first 10 fights. Look at Shiming, faced Ruenrong in his 7th fight. What about Rigo? Faced Donaire in his what, 12th fight? Look at Oleksandr Gvozdyk now, fighting Chilemba in his 12th fight, Oleksandr Usyk facing M'Chunu Glowacki first ~10 fights. Saying that Loma's level of comp is still hella impressive, amateur or no amateur taking on Salido/GRJ on his 2nd/3rd fights is quite crazy.

But I mean this has been happening more and more recently, the really good amateurs take the shortcut rather than waste time with no hopers, there's no need to give them easy fights for 20-30 fights like there's for young pros, it does little for their development. However, if they turned pro at the same age as someone like Mayweather, they'd also take the longer route most likely, nothing wrong with that.

 

You idiots just have to turn It into "us vs them" all the time don't you.

Plus, this is not a fair comprasion. Loma had much much more extensive amateur career, and regardless of what GGG haters say, amateur careers do matter.

 

Loma has only fought 8 times in 3 years.
Floyd had 22 fights in that same time period.
The nr does not matter, what matters is the competition. Loma has fought top competition his entire pro career, Floyd stepped up slowly.
And surprisingly Loma has only one more title fight under his belt in that time frame.

 

Dumb ass comparison. Lomo had what? almost 400 amateur fights? Won them all save 1?
Came into the professional ranks in his late 20's.
Floyd had how many amateur fights? 90...won 84 of them. Started pro career at age 19.

This is like having a 30yr old Japanese baseball player come into MLB and win the Rookie
of the Year Award.