The idea that Loma was ducking Rigo is absurd. And some guys just refuse to duck.

LOL. tf you mean Rigos footwork isnt that good at all? His footwork is on par with Lomas, and thats a fact. Tell me one instance in which Loma stepped to the side of Rigo like he did all his other opponents. Rigo still has beautiful footwork

 

It was dumb. It's dumb the same way it was dumb that people said he was ducking Walters at 126 for possibly fighting Rigo and then, I kid you not, saying he was ducking Rigo by fighting Walters.

Now they've both quit and apparently were never that good anyways. All the people picking them in the pre-fight were doing it for laughs.

The whole thing is funny, I'll give them that

 

Everyone gets picks wrong, so there's no shame in that. But good grief, the level of opposition Loma and Monster Inoue have fought to start their careers has been historically good. Even crazy people don't call Inoue a ducker, so I've got no idea why they twist it for Loma.

Fighting GRJ immediately after Salido isn't exactly taking the easy way out lol.

 

Some might speculate that the 18 months off and the combined experience of the troubled Froch/Grachev/Pascal period both refreshed and toughened Bute a little. He did remark upon the tentative nature of his performance vs. Pascal, so it's likely that he focused on rebuilding his mentality in his time away from the prize ring. And DeGale and Jack are ultimately just less effective fighters than Froch and Pascal - Froch undoubtably made Bute look a lot shabbier than he was, since it's hard to do worse in a supposedly competitive matchup than losing every round on the way to being stopped in 5.

I've rather resigned myself to the idea that most all of the world level guys are on something, or at least could be. I find it complicates matters too much to factor in PEDs into an analysis, as so many of our best fighters have been labelled suspect, and there are bound to be users who manage to avoid drawing accusations, so I just rationalize it as a level playing field of drug-taking opportunity. Bute was popped after the Jack fight, and Jack himself has been accused on account of his sharp turnaround since the Edwards setback and his association with the Mayweather gym, which illustrates the absurd extent of it.