Was Salido-Lomachenko robbery?

Salido had lost 12 fights when Loma fought him. However, like a lot of Mexican fighters he turned pro at a very young age (he was 15 when he made his pro debut) and he either had a very limited amateur career or he didn't have one at all. So he was obviously doing his apprenticeship and learning his trade back then, which is why he went 8-6-1 in his first four years as a pro and was stopped in 5 of those 6 loses - 2 by KO and 3 by TKO. He obviously improved a ridiculous amount after that atrocious start. He was fighting grown men back then and he had terrible management too.

Salido had only lost to 4 opponents in 12 years when Loma fought him. Four loses in 12 years all bar 1 on points (a TD loss) as opposed to 6 loses in 4 years, 5 by stoppage, when he turned pro.

Let's take a look at who those fighters were who inflicted those defeats on him during that 12 year period and moreover what their records were when he fought them

Juan Manuel Marquez 42-2-1 - Marquez had just drawn with a prime Pacquiao in his previous fight.

Mikey Garcia 30-0-0

Yuriorkis Gamboa 18-0-0

And a SD to Cristobal Cruz 36-11-1 (don't be fooled by the record Cruz was a good fighter) which Salido avenged 3 fights later by wide scores.

Salido was down against the excellent Garcia 4 times but he was actually coming back into it a bit and causing Garcia some problems before the head clash/butt busted Garcia's hooter. IIRC he won the 6th round.

Salido floored Gamboa.

And the Salido that Loma fought weighed 128¼ on the scales, 3lbs more than Loma and he had a 11lb weight advantage on the night, whereas the Salido that Marquez, Gamboa, and Garcia fought had to drain himself down to 126 and they were all roughly the same weight as him.

Gamboa 140 - Salido 140

Salido 147 - Lomachenko 136

Marquez was coming in close to 140 whilst campaigning at FW, probably round about 138 give or take a pound.

And Mikey Garcia who was a huge FW and even a huge SFW (he was walking around at 154 when campaigning at the later) was coming in at 140 when he was campaigning at FW too.

Loma was 1-0 when he fought Salido and he had never been past 5 rounds before

And he fought Salido in Texas which is tantamount to a home fight for a Mexican, especially one who's facing an opponent from somewhere as far afield as Ukraine.

Marquez had been past 8 rounds something like 19 or 20 times when he fought Salido.

Cruz had been past 8 something like 28 times when he fought Salido.

Gamboa had fought past 8 rounds 4 times when he fought Salido.

And Garcia had been past 8 rounds 6 times.