Who's more skilled, Lomachenko or Usyk?

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  1. Hanz Cholo

    Hanz Cholo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Unfair comparison imo
    Both are fantastic athletes .
    Although the word skilled is used,
    their athletic Prowess in their own respective weight classes plays a huge part in their skill sets.

    to be fair to Usyk it would be like asking
    Who is stronger / who punches harder?
    etc.
     
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  2. 81ZAR

    81ZAR Dr. Steelhammer Full Member

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    Probably Usyk? in so far as EFFECTIVE skills
    I think Loma is just more flashy
     
  3. Pepsi Dioxide

    Pepsi Dioxide Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Loma has to download information, Usyk has it installed before the fight.
     
  4. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Loma doesn't even have dial up internet mate, he has to go to the computer store and buy a rack of 40 Floppy Disks and use his pirated copy of Windows 3.1 to move data that takes about 14 hours and usually one or more Floppy Disks get damaged. Usyk doesn't even need internet, storage devices or an operating system, he's an AI neural network that comes up with information entirely on his own.

    You must be entirely new to boxing and personal computers.
     
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  5. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    Usyk is sexier
    Usyk is more humble (x10)
    Usyk is just better overall
    Usyk would die trying also. Loma ain't got that dog.
     
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  6. FastSmith7

    FastSmith7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I still think Loma is more skilled but Usyk is a smarter fighter.
     
  7. BoB Box

    BoB Box "Hey Adam! Wanna play Nintendo?" Full Member

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    Imo Loma is more athletic and Usyk is more skilled
     
  8. ellerbe

    ellerbe Loyal Member Full Member

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    Loma is more skilled, but Usyk has higher boxing iq and adapts way better than Loma. That being said, a guy like Teo is far more skilled than a Joshua or Fury.

    Would Usyk beat a HW Teo the size of Joshua/Fury?
     
  9. ellerbe

    ellerbe Loyal Member Full Member

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    To be fair to Loma here though, can’t we argue Haney and Teo are much more skilled and better than Fury and Joshua H2H? Usyk is also much more durable than Loma, which lets him do so well against guys bigger than him. I don’t know if we can consider durability a skill.
     
  10. BoxingIQ

    BoxingIQ Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Teo more skilled than Joshua and Fury? That is a stretch.
     
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  11. ellerbe

    ellerbe Loyal Member Full Member

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    Bro, Teos footwork, countering and reflexes are levels above those guys. HWs don’t rely on skill as much as little guys.
     
  12. Pepsi Dioxide

    Pepsi Dioxide Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I know to download data, you need a connection, without a connection your hardrive won't compute. If you can't compute you can't install the right software.

    Check mate mate :)
     
  13. themaster458

    themaster458 Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Usyk is more skilled tbh Lomo can't fight on the backfoot Usyk can
     
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  14. vargasfan1985

    vargasfan1985 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I’d rather be 200 against a 250 pound guy than be 150 against a 200 pound guy

    I think a 200 pound man can hurt a 250 pound man easier than 150 pound man hurting a 200 pound one
     
  15. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Yeah the Fury fight really showed just how great Usyk's ring IQ is. He gave Fury 4 rounds in the middle of the fight when Fury was on top and then simply made an adjustment, then almost KO'ed Fury and swept the remaining cards on my scorecard.

    Loma showed he could adapt in the Lopez fight but did it far too late and even then Lopez started driving uppercuts to his body in the final round to win the final round on all 3 judges scorecards, so even then I'd argue Loma hadn't completely figured him out.

    As I said in my original post in this thread Usyk is simply a more complete fighter. Yes Loma's foot work is flashy and many equate flashy to skill, but Usyk's footwork is just as good, to be able to pressure fighters with such big height and reach advantages in Joshua and Fury while not being picked off from range takes exceptional footwork. Usyk's ring IQ combined with his superior skills on the back foot when compared to Loma make Usyk the more skilled of the too, which is why Usyk will go down as the greater of the two and the one seen as this generations stand out fighter.
     
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