A few things I noticed. Lomachenko has a bad habit of letting his opponent lay hands on him (normally to the body) while he resets, as opposed to weaving under and out, parrying or slipping incoming shots. He keeps his hands high in a peek a boo manner while this is occurring, but his body is wide open, and in his first pro fight he willingly let his opponent dig shots in. One of if not Salido's greatest strengths is how expertly he manages to get his hooks behind the elbows of his opponents. One of the reasons I feel Mikey Garcia had so much success against Salido was that, as he repeatably said in the post fight interview, they went in there with a game plan and stuck to it. They completely shut down Salido's offensive adn momentum by intelligently clinching him. Reminded me of Margarito/Mosley with less fireworks. A very simple tactic but it takes a clear head to maintain it under pressure, but Garcia did as such. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Second observation... Lomachenko's corner did not have an enswell and were merely using a bag of ice on Vasyl's face. The **** is this, amateur hour? Tied into that, Vasyl seems to have skin that might open up under fire. He had a cut open under one of his eyes just as his first pro fight was ending. I'm not sure if it was a punch, butt or elbow, thing is Salido throws all three pretty well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Could Vasyl be a fighter who's stagnated because of having the same trainer his entire career? It's not easy to do, but sometimes you have to break off and hire an elite, world class trainer when you hit the big time. It's not so much a loyalty thing as simply maximizing your potential. The HBO team were talking about a transition to Joey Gamache as a trainer (Who doesn't strike me as a world class coach) from the reigns of his current trainer, his father. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone else have any observations or general fights as one of 2014's most interesting fights rapidly approaches?
Another observation. Vasyl seems to be a natural feathweight... He only rehydrated to 129 pounds against Ramirez. Salido went up to 140 against Cruz.... Could a functional 10 pound or more weight advantage help Salido here?
Interesting observations, some others have pointed out his willingness to allow Ramirez to get in close and work the body. It seemed at times though he was doing this deliberately and could have easily moved out if he had wanted to. The only question for me is whether he's willing to fight off the back foot if he needs to. In the amateurs he was a pressure fighter to who pressed his offense. Will he do the same against Salido who would seem to welcome that?
One pro fight and the Euro haters have him all figured out.:-( Loma better hope Salido's trainers don't read ESB.atsch
Yea Vasyl isn't too big. But i think you also have to take into account that he's in impeccable shape.
I don't think he has awful stamina or anything... I don't think giving your body up for any kind of free shots is a good habit however. The punch stats with the crash test dummy looking things that HBO does right after Vasyl's first fight showed that his opponent actually landed a lot more body shots on him than Vasyl did against him. Obviously the quality in the work was obviously massive, but what about a guy that can really rip to the body like Salido?
