Orlando Salido SD12 Vasyl Lomachekno. Will this be the best win of 2014?

Quoting myself from the thread on "March 2014 Fighter of the Month:"

People who never rated Lomachenko's 1-0 credentials wouldn't find Salido's feat worthy of making this list.

So I wouldn't include him in the top 5 or so fighters of the month at all.

HOWEVER... If you were one of the many idiots on here (the majority of you clowns) who claimed he was the GOAT, a sure fire future HOF'er, one of the best P4P today, etc. then you better not be a hypocrite and you need to start calling Salido "The GOAT Killer" and make him your Fighter of the Whole Damn Year.

 

Naw.
Lomachenko is a professioanl no body. He has zero rep in the Pro boxing world. Especially since he is now 1-1 as a Pro.

Saildo will get some milage from the win and no doubt get some good money follow up bouts.
LOMA is still a hype and will most likely get more media hype and another free ride or two this year.

 

Just because some bookies in Vegas buy into the hype doesn't mean we should all value their opinion above our own valuing of credentials and merit.

"Betting favorite" means nothing to me. I'm knowledgeable enough and am capable of factoring in the public consensus (which most nobody else can fairly do) to be able to properly value each major win in boxing. The difference here is that folks were literally doing the hipster thing and jumping blindly on a bandwagon of a novice fighter.

It's not a bad win. But Lomachenko was never a top 10 ranked opponent. So Alvarez TKO10 Angulo > Salido SD12 Lomachenko.

If he goes on to do great things, then obviously it will look great in retrospect.

But if Loma retired right now and never fought again, the win over him holds very little significance. Like, Rogers Mtagwa significant or lesser...

 

So called experts also predicted Foreman would beat Ali.
They are often wrong, as again shown by Lomachenko's lose.

 

Yes along with Herrera popping Danny's cherry

 

If Naoya Inoue defeats Adrian Hernandez in a few days, he takes the best win category and it ain't even close.

 

Unfortunately, while I rate Lomachenko highly in terms of ability, fact remains that he's no experience as a pro and no credentials apart from beating one contender prior to the fight with Salido, also his win had some controversies with him coming overweight et cetera.

 

Hell, if naoya's brother beats Sakhareen in his second fight, that's gotta be a contender, too.