Scoring Loma's Losses

- Beat Salido 7-5. Salido should have been DQ'ed or had 5 points taken away.
- Beat Haney 8-4.
- Lost to Lopez 7-5. He started too late and gave away too many rounds.

 

Any fool having sLomo undefeated and drinking that 400-1 amateur record cool-aid deserves the ignore list not knowing crap about boxing. Always a good fighter, never close being great.

 

Speaking of, those Loma schools Floyd comments at the height of the hype were the new king of ESB dumb, weren't they? Haha.

Lomachenko is a very good fighter with an eye-catching style that looks great in highlights but turns up short vs. various professional styles, and some of his unearned ABC titles were literally bought by Bob Arum pocket (Salido, T-Rex etc.), which is just not a very good historical look.

My Christmas wish is Gervonta stopping being lazy and putting a TKO to the very colorful loss column of sLomo's professional career and the equally colorful excuses the fanboys will come up with. But neither of those are too keen to fight anytime soon.

 

Not to pick at an old scab, my man, but I couldn't disagree more. The Floyd Super Fans are absolutely no friend of Lomachenko.

 

You can make a strong case that Loma is undefeated as a pro.

In his prime, Loma is one of the greatest I ever seen, in my lifetime or the next.

 

He is, perhaps, the greatest 17-3 fighter of all time. In fact, there are very few in that category to even compare him to.

 

True but that is also why he isn’t an all time great. The three things that stand out for me are:

1) 17-3 and yeah the Haney fight was a bad decision but it’s still a 17-3 record.
2) Loma’s relatively low KO %.
3) His body of work as a pro just doesn’t stack up.

Loma is beautiful to watch and passes the eye test, especially with his movement but the only thing that counts is his record. I don’t see any real legacy fights on it and the ones that could have catapulted Loma to genuinely elite status were losses.

 

Wheres the option for a draw

Beat Haney and Salido, draw with Lopez

 

No it doesn't, the fact that he handled Pac, DLH, Mosley, Chico, JMM, Canelito, Hatton, Zab and barely broke a sweat whereas Rigo and Linares rates Lomas career as well as Salido & Lopez tells me a clear outcome. Late Floyd would easily out-box him 10-2 but remember a great chin saved arguable a much greater JMM from getting stopped, Mayweather packed a punch.

But real trouble comes vs. younger Floyd who lit up Chico like a Christmas tree - sLomo already looked like the 400-1 amateur unable to stop Salido ripping his body apart on the inside, b!tching to the ref a sht, and Floyd is an ATG at that range. A little elbow here, hit & hold there, body batterment combined with borderline low blows, spinning him out and smacking him, stepping on his toes, all the tricks with deceptive clean power shots, that boy wouldn't know what hit him the next Saturday, absolutely no inside game whatsoever. Take away sLomo's feet and distance and he's a lion stuck in the mud with crocodiles attacking from down under.

You need to tell me which Floyd fight suggests that Lomo with his size, troubles vs. said opposition and skill set can compete.

 

Do it. Talk is cheap.

And I guarantee I'll find a Floyd fan or one of the usual suspects (ie the race hustlers) or both who don't like Loma.

That this seems to be such a blind spot for you is perplexing to me.

 

1-1-1 for me
114-114 vs Salido (but Salido should have taken a penalty point for a low blow).
112-116 vs Lopez
115-113 vs Haney