Originally posted by Motorcity Cobra
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Why hasn't Lomachenko connected with an audience?
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-He has 8 fights.
-Doesn't speaks english
-There hasn't been a breakthrough performance by him
-Is a featherweight
There hasn't nothing to do with race, Dela Hoya was white and was a star (surprise surprise, you can be white and latino) as well as Canelo, but he hasn't break in to the scene because he doesn't have that May-Gatti or Tyson-Berbick type of performance, of course that the Martinez one was devasting, but he needs to do that against a top name to break in to the scene, being a featherweight that doesn't speaks English doesn't helps either.
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Originally posted by Motorcity Cobra View PostI agree. Hardcore white boxing fans in America love the Eastern Europeans but casual white fans in America just aren't connecting with white fighters for some strange reason. They connect with black, mexican, filipino, puerto rican fighters but they don't connect with white fighters. Even when Tommy Morrison was a legit HW champ white Americans still connected more with Holyfield, Foreman, Lewis than they did with Tommy. Have white Americans been sold the great white hope so much they don't believe white fighters can really fight?
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Originally posted by Kagami Taiga View PostNo actually he doesn't. Pacquiao spoke pretty good English by the time he was a major star. Lomachenko doesnt speak ANY english. And Duran was never an American superstar.
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I think loma has connected fine.....
This walters domination really put him on the map... Same way Cotto dominating pinto, or morales beating junior jones, or hopkins beating tito, crawford beating Postol, RIGO beating donaire
It puts you on the map....
This was loma's first big time fight, and he shined,,, his profile grew substantially
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Originally posted by Motorcity Cobra View PostHe speaks as well as Pacquiao spoke when he was becoming a star. Duran never spoke English and he had a Pepsi commerical
Lomachenko doesn't have those type of rivals. He fights in a weight class that is basically an afterthought. Honestly most weight classes below 147 don't get the recognition they deserve. Plus he can't speak English so that limits his ability to connect to American fans. Also, the Ukrainian fans simply don't support their athletes the way Mexicans and Filipinos support theirs. He had an interview recently and someone asked him if he's a huge celebrity in the Ukraine and he mentioned that only in his hometown of Akkerman is he famous, but if he walks down streets of Kiev he's just a regular dude.
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Originally posted by Motorcity Cobra View PostI agree. Hardcore white boxing fans in America love the Eastern Europeans but casual white fans in America just aren't connecting with white fighters for some strange reason. They connect with black, mexican, filipino, puerto rican fighters but they don't connect with white fighters. Even when Tommy Morrison was a legit HW champ white Americans still connected more with Holyfield, Foreman, Lewis than they did with Tommy. Have white Americans been sold the great white hope so much they don't believe white fighters can really fight?
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