So if Tank is special why he's fighting B and C level fighters all the time?

Twink is a natural 135 pounder not a 130

If Twink is a natural 130 pounder why does he look gaunt and emaciated on the scales?

Why has did he lose his first world title on the scales?

Why did he come within a whisker of losing his second world title on the scales after failing to make weight the first and second time of asking?

Why has he had to strip butt naked in order to make weight numerous times?

Why did he miss weight the first time of asking for his official debut at 135 against Gamboa?

Why does he weigh more than Loma on fight night down at 130 than Loma does at 135 and a lot more than him at 135? Loma's supposed to be lightweight according to the clown brigade but Twink isn't?

Loma never missed weight the first time of asking at any weight class and he didn't look ill at weigh ins even down at 126

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Twink might not be long but he's thick-set, duh, that's where he, like Clenelo, gets his power from

As for him campaigning at 140. Well if Loma who weighs a whole weigh class less than Twink and has a tiny 65½'' reach which is 2'' shorter than Twinks and doesn't possess Twink's murderous power to KO those much bigger guys can campaign up at 135 then why can't Twink campaign at 140? Imagine what Loma could do if he possessed Twink's power? Now there's a frightening proposition.

You think Twink is giving away more weight and reach at 140 than Loma is giving away at 135?

Even if Twink fought Taylor weighing what he did against Gamboa at 135 he would only be giving away about 6 ½lbs and 2'' in reach.

6 ½lbs and 2'' in reach is child's play for Loma who is routinely giving away between 2 to almost 6'' in reach and at least 7-10lbs in weight if not more. Even down at 126 he gave away 11lbs to Salido and 7½'' in reach at 130 to Axe Man Walters

Taylor comes in about 153lbs and has a 69½'' reach

Twink 146½''lbs and a 67½'' reach

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When Loma fought Pedraza he's was coming off shoulder surgery just seven months earlier and had devised a game plan with his surgeon which revolved around not throwing his right hook ie. the most powerful punch in his arsenal (ask Martinez and Crolla both of whom he sparked out with it even though he was giving away a lot of weight to them). Hence why he didn't really start throwing in until the 9th round and it's hardly a coincidence he hurt Pedraza badly, dropped him twice, and came within a whisker of getting him out of there when he did.

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Listen to what Dre has to say about the amount of time you need to recover from shoulder surgery fully

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When Dre came back off shoulder surgery 10 months later not 7 he fought Edwin Rodriguez

When Jarrett Hurd came back off shoulder surgery also 10 months later he fought domestic level Jason Welborn who lost to an 18-96-8 fighter two years earlier and who is now 27-164-10

When George Groves came back off shoulder surgery he fought Callum Smith, like Loma, 7 months later. He shouldn't have even have been in a ring that night because it simply wasn't enough time for his shoulder to heal properly and he didn't have a choice regarding opponent selection because it was the WBSS final and they delayed it as long as they could for him and had he not fought they would've found a replacement.

Loma jumped straight back into a unification against a two-weight world champion, a forger world amateur silver medalist, and a highly skilled talented and operator like Pedraza in his first fight back after surgery. Neither Edwin Rodriguez, Jason Welborn, or even Smith are fit to tie Pedraza's boots. And yes, I give Twink credit for beating Pedraza too even though Pedraza's tactics in that fight were beyond dumb, especially given how talented a boxer he is from range.

Twink wasn't coming off of shoulder surgery and had two good arms against Pedraza, Loma was coming off shoulder surgery and wasn't close to being 100%

And Twink weighed more on fight night down at 130 than Loma does at 135 who was giving away at least 9lbs to Pedraza and 5'' in reach whereas Pedraza and Twink probably weighed about the same and the reach disadvantage was 3'' not 5'' and Pedraza didn't even use his reach against Twink.

Pedraza fought a completely different game plan against Twink than he did against Loma. Against Loma he used his range and beautiful skills, and against Twink he employed the dumbest tactics he possibly could of completely abandoning his skills in favour of wading in face first all night to the shorter man's bombs which was suicidal.

And Twink is a just bigger puncher than Loma which is hardly a mystery.

All this context was ignored by the Twink fans like how they ignored Ryan Garcia doing a far more impressive job on Fonseca than Twink did ie. the guy he iced out cold in a round and Twink could only get out of there in 7 on a flagrant illegal blow and journeyman 23-12 Robinson Castellanos did against a 35 y/o Gamboa with 2 good legs than Twink did against a shot to bits 38 y/o cripple Gamboa who had to contend with huge handicap of fighting with a torn Achilles tendon for 10 rounds of the fight. Hence why he was hobbling round the ring like a cripple all night.

And there's no question Loma fought a healthier Pedraza because the later had made it abundantly clear before the Twink fight that he was going to relinquish his title (if he won) and immediately move up to 135 win or lose because he was really struggling to make weight and he had his team come to the decision to move up 9 months prior to then after his last fight.


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Pedraza is a big dude. Hence why he's up at 140 now and has even fought at a catchweight of 144 and still looked lean and in shape

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