but wild and clumsy, i can see a technically sound boxer boxing the head CLEAN off him, having just watched the eric walker fight. hes good but he isnt very good right now, liam williams okay hes a middle, would take the head CLEAN off him round 8.
Think he fought the wrong fight. We've seen the technical skills there, and even saw them at points here, but always get the feeling he wants to something special, and as a result he makes a lot of mistakes.
He has a long way to go to compete at the championship level. He looked quite sloppy at times, can be easily outboxed at this point in time.
I get the impression from Israel, that what he's trying to do, is develop the uzbek amateur style into a professional 12 round championship style. This has never been done nor tried before, he's breaking new ground here. I saw an interview recently where his pro trainer said, " we don't try to teach him too much, he has an unorthodox style and we encourage him to be creative with it" Firstly he may have an unorthodox pro style but he has a very orthodox uzbek/Russian elite amateur style which I will be very interested to see how he develops it , for the pro ranks. What id like Israel to keep in mind tho is, that there is a reason the Kazakhs and Ukrainians etc started to develop their own style after the disintigration of the old soviet state. The Russians and Uzbeks carried on regardless, whilst the rest of the old Soviet states started to develop their own unique styles. Even the Cubans had a big cccp influence earlier on but they ended up developing a style of their own. I would say the kazakhs & Ukraine is somewhere in the middle but all had a grounding in the old Soviet style. Imo there's definatly some of his style that isreal should look to keep, whilst looking to drop some areas, and look for other styles to bring in and improve himself by. I havnt seen his last fight yet so don't want to make judgement but the classical Soviet amateur style can look quite un technical to us westerners but in honesty, it is elite technical but in a different style and this style would not get "outboxed"
This. And fortunately, his opponents have all been quite experienced, so he has the opportunity to learn.
Very bad sign when he switched off and looked totally gassed for a round (round 8 or something). He's something akin to Naz with his totally unorthodox instinctive style, but as someone above said he has a stronger foundation from the amateur system. He absolutely must learn from this fight if he's to have a long career in the sport. Being a totally switched off punching bag in one round, and landing a tremendous highlight reel leaping left hook the next speaks ill of his metal fortitude. He has a bit of the dangerous "I've learned it all, this s**t is too easy" attitude that we once in a while see Loma slip into. The difference, for now, is that Loma has never stopped getting better and always learns from his mistakes.
He's learning, that fight will have done him the world of good too, I think he's a brilliant prospect. He has it all, it's just about refining it. Future champion for sure.
