There's no way GRJ will get a decision this Saturday. Look at the judges

Lomachenko should knock Russell out, but you never know it boxing...............Lomachenko is faster than Russell, better defense and has fought the much better competition, yes, in his first two fights, not only in the amateurs. I do not trust Calif judges, refs, etc., perhaps Lomachenko should hire Ward to tell the judges and referee what to do?

 

Grj hasent proved anything yet heck this guy lomo has proved more in his first pro fight than grj has in over 20+ pro fights



Salido barley survived the final round don't forget

 

Amazing situation. I have NEVER heard of a 26-0 fighter being an underdog to a 1-1 fighter. It just screams...OMG LOL

 

You've no idea who he is, yet he's only "somewhat neutral"?

 

High praise indeed!

You can look up judges and refs on boxrec too, FWIW, if yoy want to find out about his judging / reffing record.

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=401036&cat=judge

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=401036&cat=referee

FWIW I'm not sure if you're on the money with your assessment - IMO Loma has just as much reason to worry about the judging - AFAIK judge selection has more to do with the SAC and possibly the relevent sanctioning body than the network or promoter.

Can't really hold it against the judges if they happened to have officiated on HBO more than SHO - that's pretty much co-incidental.

 

Isn't Pat Russell the same guy who stopped Rios v Alvarado I but let Ruslan Provodnikov beat soft spots in Tim Bradley's skull?

 

Max DeLuca: has served as a judge twice for GRJ fights
-had Provodnikov beating Algieri 117-109
-had Matthysse beating Molina 94-92 at stoppage
-had Josesito beating Arnauotis 77-74

Pat Russell: has refereed 3 of GRJ's fights
-scored the Nietes/Fuentes I fight a draw
-had Santa Cruz beating Guevara 118-110
-had Victor Ortiz beating Josesito 88-83 at stoppage

Lisa Giampa: has judged for Lomachenko's debut
-had J'Leon beating Periban 97-92
-had Pacquiao beating Rios 119-109
-had Segura beating Calderon 67-66 at stoppage in their first fight

Referee, Jack Reiss: has judged for Lomachenko's second career fight
-had Salido beating Lomachenko 116-112
-was the referee for the rematch between Stiverne and Arreola
-was the referee for the Ward vs. Edwin fight
-was the referee for two well known KO's two weeks apart; Jhonny KO1 Mares and Arreola KO1 Mitchell

 

Sorry, but there is really no need to show such fear of a referee in this fight.
Both fighter are known to be clean fighters and I fully expect the fight to be maintained in the center of the ring with mostly outside fighting.
Russell will be popping his jab in Loma's face all night long and Loma will be backing up and trying to counter Russelll as he comes in.
Compared to Russell, Loma punches in slow motion and will take a tremendous amount of head and body shots come fight night.