Lomachenko has been trying to get Salido into a ring, but Salido has wanted way too much money, he knows Lomachenko will knock him out. Salido wants Lawrence Cole to protect him.............
HBO kept investing money in guys like Brandon Rios, who burned out in 4 years. Salido is still going.
Salido as usual gets dropped by journeymen but proceeds to beat them lol. He's an exciting fighter and he should fight Loma while he's still got something left. It would be interesting to see what Loma can do now that he has a decent pacing strategy, even though Loma hasn't fought a stylistic threat. It still may not be a walk in the park.
Just caught the fight on Youtube. Is Salido ever in a bad fight? Edit: Something the announcer said caught my ear, and that was that Salido does not get paid what he's worth so I googled it and supposedly Siri is worth around 2.5 mill. Deserves better based on the fights he's given us but that's not bad.
I just got done watching it, Jesus... Orlando is the fattest SFW I've ever seen, he looked like he had a beer belly. He had to be a WW in that match. And based on the way he reacted to the KD by Perez, in theory, he should probably stay as far away from Loma as possible, but its probably just one of those weird Siri anomalies like with the Kokietgym match, and he'll be able to take Loma's shots as well as he took Vargas'. Good fight regardless, even though Salido looked only okayish.
Have Salido ever fought someone he didn't outweigh by 15+ pounds on the fight night.... Man, I'm so tired of the weight "tactics" in boxing. Make fighters fight at their actual weight goddam it.