Salvador Sánchez Vs. Vasyl Lomachenko @ Featherweight—Who Wins And How?!

great matchup

 

Lomachenko takes a close decision. Sanchez is great and rose to the occasion when pushed to the limits. He did have a tendency to struggle with movers...not a great recipe for success against Loma, who will present all sorts of unique angles both offensively and defensively. Sanchez’s ring generalship and brilliant accuracy timing and precision punching will ensure he is not out of the fight. I just think Loma nips this one

 

Sánchez by KO. Bear in mind Loma was still an amateur at 23, the age Sánchez died at. Sánchez was still improving and on his way to becoming perhaps the FW GOAT. Wins over Gomez, Nelson etc already place him very high, and comfortably above Loma. Sánchez was a phenom in the truest sense of the word.

 

This question gets asked a lot. I’ve seen Sanchez’s fights and know what he did. I have only respect for him. But I would still take Loma in this one.

Arguments about resume do not matter here. Gomez was coming up in weight, and Nelson fought him on two weeks’ notice. See how easy it is to make pointless arguments about resume?

 

Sanchez was long, lean, tough and could bang. He also had good timing and would punch with Loma. This would prevent much of what makes Loma special. Most of Loma's opponents try to counter or catch Loma coming in or sliding out. He is to fast and attacks from diffrent angles for that approach to work. Sanchez would punch with Loma, no doubt!

 

I think Sanchez's untimely death have lead a lot of people to give him this mythical status. Sanchez, as great as he was, still had his flaws even with his superb skills. He mostly thrived on fighters who come to him and lead while Sanchez unleashed his deadly counters and combinations. Against fighters who move or don't lead he does have trouble. Lomachenko is great against counter punchers because of his movement and angles that disrupts their timing. As much as I love Sanchez I don't see him beating Loma.

Very few fighters would beat a prime Sanchez and that includes Arguello, Pep, Camacho, and Loma.

 

I think Sanchez would have quite a bit of trouble early on with Loma, but in the end would adjust to his style and earn a decision, with some rounds being razor close.

Sanchez had great movement just as Loma does, but was more proven than Loma at Featherweight, against greater opponents with more ability than Lomas opponents at Feather.

I don't think Loma would be able to pull off shuffles etc. so dominantly on a great opponent like sanchez, due to Sanchezs clever nature. His movement would be mitigated.

However, Loma would also be able to mitigate some of Sanchezs tactics, and would definitely take advantage of Sanchezs low left hand and a certain reliance on his chin.

I just don't think Loma has shown anything tremendous enough at featherweight for me to pick him for the win.

This battle would definitely be chess match IMO, an amazing fantasy match.

 

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I am fine with your pick....

But bear in mind that Sanchez started his pro career at 16 and had packed 8 years and 46 fights into his career. Let’s not paint him as pre prime or anything of the sort. The truth is he had already reached his apex (and man what an apex it was). The Gomez win was huge for him and his legacy....but and I am the biggest Nelson fan on this forum....but Nelson was a novice who had 13 pro fights and no one really knew him outside of Ghana and he was not even ranked or considered as an opponent for Sanchez. Nelson was a last minute replacement for Mario Miranda and no one expected it to be remotely competitive. The fact that it was (and is my number 2 all time favorite fight behind Arguello Escalera I) competitive was a blemish on Sanchez at the time. He had a rep for fighting (not sure it was deserved but it surely existed...just listen to the commentary) down to the level of his comp. it is with hindsight that we realize Nelson was great and what a huge win it was....but to say it was viewed that way at the time....well that is revisionist history.

 

PhillyPhan69 and Flo_Raiden have more or less summed up my position on this. In terms of dealing with aggressive punchers who came at him, Sanchez is the greatest Featherweight fighting machine ever. I desperately want to say I think he'd win this one, and I do think that, had it not been for his death, we might be calling him the greatest Featherweight of all time these days. But...

Rangy, cagey guys who used the ring, such as Cowdell and Ford, gave him problems and negated his silky-smooth, aggressive counter punching. Some say that this was more a case of him fighting to the level of his opponent and not being as motivated for these smaller names as he was for Lopez, Gomez et al., but I'm not entirely sure. The stylistic overlap between Cowdell and Ford makes me think he might just have had that slight chink in his armour.

I think I'd take Lomachenko's speed and movement to nick a close decision, just. No more than 60:40 in Loma's favour at the most and Sanchez was capable of almost anything...But this time, in a one-off bout, I suspect Lomachenko might just have the right hand to get the win. Would be fascinating.

 

Sanchez would overwhelm Loma and school Loma.
Loma would have a hard time trying to land on Sanchez.

Sanchez by Decision or by late round TKO somewhere between rounds 10-12.
Whichever Sanchez wants, cause he could do either if he wants to.


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lomas whole style revolves around sustained attacks on any and all openings, so sal would not need to go looking for him. loma has trouble executing his flashy counters when under pressure, he needs room to set up and shift positions unimpeded. sal is one of the few fighters in history i could say has better lungs than loma. i would put sal in the top 10 atg pressure fighters. sal wont wait for the faster loma to throw, in order to trade with the softer puncher, he is going to throw his and you can decide how you wanna deal with it.
outside of salido, which i dont think was the same loma, he hasnt had to win from a defensive position, until i see he can handle a n A level in your face fighter, i have to go with sal.