Fight takes place at 135. Sure, Loma is definitely the more skilled and polished fighter, but Gatti had dat damn power in those hands and was a certified dawg, not to mention he was huge for his weight class. It's very possible this might end up like another Lopez situation, where the naturally smaller Loma just can't handle the physicality and maybe even gets KO'd. What do you guys think ?
Gatti had okay power, and might drop Loma, but he isn't putting him down for the count. This is, notwithstanding maybe a knockdown or two, a lopsided UD.
I wasn't watching boxing when Gatti was in his pomp so maybe I'm afflicted by recency bias, but from what I've seen of Gatti, Lomachenko is far too skilled for him. I see Loma putting on a clinic on his way to a wide UD.
Gatti was a pretty versatile boxer-brawler and gets a tad underrated (as he's mostly remembered nowadays for either his emasculating losses to DLH and PBF, or for thrice going life and death with a tough, awesome journeyman but journeyman nonetheless in Micky Ward) but yeah, Loma is all wrong for him.
Cheers, the only fights I've seen of Gatti are his dismantling at the hands of ODLH and Floyd, and his trilogy against Ward, so I did think I could be underrating him a bit.
As immensely entertaining and brave Gatti was as a fighter, he simply isn't the same caliber as Loma. Loma knows how to fight bigger opponents incredibly well and he knows how to avoid punches very well. I don't think Gatti has as much one-shot power as Linares, Walters, or Rigo, and even if he does I don't think he has the skills to land it. Loma is all kinds of wrong for the courageous Canadian in spite of the favourable size.
I always had a theory that Gatti's poor defense was a strength to his offense. Guys where hitting him with like 45%+ of their shots at 130, my theory is that there were so many openings it incentiviced opponents to open themselves up to get all that offense in, which in turn gave Gatti opportunities to land his own offense. That being said I would comfortably pick Lomachenko to win.
Loma basically kills Gatti. I am not sure of what Gatti did before Manfredy and Ivan Robinson so Gatti may have been a decent fighter before those fights but yes Gatti lost to Manfredy who was simply a horrible fighter, Manfredy went on to win a close decision over John Brown but losing by Ko1 to knockout artist(not) Floyd Mayweather after that Manfredy would lose to Diego Corrales in a few rounds looking absolutely hopeless, Corrales wasn't the best fighter as demonstrated by Floyd, acctually very overrated. As for Ivan Robinson he would go on to lose to Manfredy and then to Antonio Diaz by ko, and then he lost to 43 year old Julio Cesar Chavez. Arturo Gatti and Vasili Lomachenko have absolutely nothing in common.
