Teo fights the guy that he has beaten him before. This will help Teo a lot because he won't have a fear of Loma in his mind.
In the rounds that loma won, he destroyed teo. In the rounds that teo won, except the 12th, he was just touching loma and putting pressure. Teo looked scared from rounds 7-11. He dont want that smoke with loma. I consider him lucky for only feeling the pressure for 5 rounds. I really do hope they fight again, cuz i dont think loma's processing will take more than 2 rounds since he's already calculated how teo will fight. In his amateur days, some dude beat him so he beat that dude twice. I really hope teo comes through. If he really beat loma then he should have no problem doing it again.
Round 12 was interesting. I hadn't watched the match live but heard that Lomachenko was badly shaken in the 12th. Lopez won the 12th but I did not see Lomachenko look shaken. He shook off punches, never stopped attacking nor did he clinch to stop the action. Lopez often held the smaller guy.
Loma no doubt lost the 12th. Lopez was absolutely terrific in the 12th, but loma never seemed like he really got hurt, he just got outworked and was pressured to be on his back foot.
Lomachenko did badly precisely because he kept fighting on the front foot. He wanted to win that round strongly.
thats true, he had to play catch up cuz he didnt turn it on till midway thru the 6th. Id love for them to go at it again!
I agree to some extent. I do think Lopez buzzed Loma in Rd 12, however, and the Honduran-American certainly deserved to win the the round. Yet the idea that Lopez beat Loma from pillar to post in Rd 12 grossly overstates the case. Moroever, if memory serves, I recall the Ukrainian landing a really good shot right before the final bell.