ROBERTO DURAN 1974 VS. PRIME LOMAN 15 RDS.

Hands of Stone makes Hi-Tech his *****.

 

I have yet to see anyone on this forum refute my analysis on Duran vs Loma, and this is from nearly a year ago. Try refute this before orgasm, Loma wankers.

 

Thanks my friend for posting this thread.

 

The 1974 edition of Roberto Duran as mean as he was in the ring, Joe Frazier once remarked that Duran had the eyes of Charles Manson in the ring and it frightened him, Roberto figures out prime Lomachenko out early, puts constant pressure on him with brutal body shots. Hands Of Stone does not fall for Lomas cuteness in the ring, he scores with those shots with mayhem in them. Duran puts Loma away in round 6, remember Roberto was a wily veteran by then, he started his career in 1967, and he had been WBA Lightweight Champion since stopping Ken Buchanan by TKO 13, on June 26 1972.

 

Thank You.

 

I'm a huge Lomachenko fan, and I believe he has the skillset and athletic base to compete in just about any era you throw him into. Yes, some of my fellow Loma fans are a bit much at times, but that doesn't make him an uncompetitive bum.

Duran, though, is a nightmare foe for Loma and would stop him by the mid rounds, breaking the Ukranian down with body shots and stiffling his angles.

 

I couldn't care less about personalities and have no favorites, but if Lomachenko fought Duran, I'd bet on VL. He is always in shape, he has been boxing forever, and he has seen and experienced it all at the top level of amateur boxing. Duran quit when things got tough with SRL and that was always in him, it just took the right time and person to make him do it. VL might well frustrate him, hurt him, and make him do the same thing, even if he didn't, I'd bet on VL to win based on superior skill and conditioning.

I think there are a few fighters at 135 that might beat VL now, I just don't think Duran could have. VL is small for the day before weigh in 135, that is like 147 same day. Giving up size might catch up to him, but he wouldn't be giving up size to Duran.

 

Loma is in the matrix dude, he gets a decision over Duran.
74 Duran could give him trouble though... good matchup!

 

You refuted absolutely none of my points in the quoted message you ignored. Here it is again. Duran would have some trouble but he definitely wins this. His style, especially as a young man, is all wrong for Loma - who also has possibly questionable durability.

Also, you are speaking of size as if Duran didn't move up to 160 and won the title vs a massive middleweight, or beat one of the best fighters ever in a higher weight class. Loma won't even fight Pac at 140 ffs.

Also, why do people use vague terms like 'superior skills' when it comes to Loma, but never expound on it? When it comes to classic fighters you guys go to minute, treatise like levels of detail, but not here apparently. Not one person has said how Loma beats Duran specifically like I have said Duran beats him.

 

With all due respect, we are not talking about Roberto Duran at 147 or about this era, we are talking about Duran at 135, the 1974 edition where SRRL was still not a pro yet.

 

I still remember the Lou Bizzaro title bout in May 1976, Lou played cute, by moving using good foot work, it did not save him from the Hands Of Stone, Roberto Duran, the referee mercifully stopped it in round 14, the same with Vilomar Fernandez in January 1977, also a title bout, Fernandez ran the whole fight as if it was going to save him, Roberto stopped him in round 13. As Joe Louis said, He Can Run, But He Can;t Hide.

 

Pat, I believe Loma to be a hell of a fighter. Anyone can see that. But, with all due respect, you just compared him to welterweight Ray Leonard- whom btw I dislike immensely but cannot deny his greatness at 147. Plus the TS chose the 1974 Duran, not the Duran from Leonard 2

 

Great match-up. But at 135, Duran was too much man, too crafty, too good at getting off first or countering as the situation required. 135 is at the very upper end of what Loma is capable of making and being competitive with the very elite. Duran was a step beyond that.

There is the distinct possibility of a stoppage here.