Cant understand how Loma gets criticism for losing his second pro fight by split decision to Salido a world champion who was 11 pounds heavier on the night after coming in overweight and who also benefited shocking refereeing.
He also had decades more experience than loma.
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There are much better potential fights that never happened or never will happen: Oscar de la Hoya vs Azumah Nelson; Sugar Ray Leonard vs Aaron Pryor; Roy Jones vs Darius Michelzewski; Mayweather vs Vernon Forest; Andre Ward vs Golovkin; Danny Garcia vs an opponent with a pulse; Keith Thurman vs an opponent with a pulse; Stevenson vs Kovalev.
Not only will I go on living knowing that these fights never happened or never will happen, I will sleep very well tonight knowing it. In fact, I am falling asleep as I type this note.
All good fights that never happened except your shot at Thurman. I am not even a Thurman fan but how can you ignore his win over Porter? Porter and Thurman were neck and neck for 3rd/4th in the division til that fight, and it was a great fight between two top contenders on top of that.
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There are much better potential fights that never happened or never will happen: Oscar de la Hoya vs Azumah Nelson; Sugar Ray Leonard vs Aaron Pryor; Roy Jones vs Darius Michelzewski; Mayweather vs Vernon Forest; Andre Ward vs Golovkin; Danny Garcia vs an opponent with a pulse; Keith Thurman vs an opponent with a pulse; Stevenson vs Kovalev.
Not only will I go on living knowing that these fights never happened or never will happen, I will sleep very well tonight knowing it. In fact, I am falling asleep as I type this note.
Would have liked to seen it, but I'm not haunted by the fact it didn't happen
Rigo is 122, never been to 126, lomachenko already at 130 and was 135 in amateurs.
Would have rather seen Walters or doñaire vs loma at 126..
Cant understand how Loma gets criticism for losing his second pro fight by split decision to Salido a world champion who was 11 pounds heavier on the night after coming in overweight and who also benefited shocking refereeing.
As far as ability goes I'd take Rigo over Loma. No way Rigo would've lost to someone of Salido's caliber.
Loma may be flashy, but pound for pound, I take Rigo by a long run.
Yes I agree he has more ability, but Loma has too much in combination, size and ability. The sum of the parts is too much to make up the difference. I could be wrong because their dimensions are not too dissimilar, but its like Brook-GGG on the weekend, one guy structurally, frame wise, you can see there was a significant difference, even if on paper the dimensions (height and reach) weren't that different, and its the same with this fight in my opinion.
If you add to the fact that Lomachenko looks like a puncher even up at 130, and Rigo hasn't exactly been bullet proof at 122, it just to me equates to a non-competitive fight where Loma probably jabs and walks through Rigo. That doesn't mean I think he is the better fighter p4p.
I don't think Rigo could compete with Loma - so it would have been an anticlimax. Too much size - and obviously the ability to go with it.
As far as ability goes I'd take Rigo over Loma. No way Rigo would've lost to someone of Salido's caliber.
Loma may be flashy, but pound for pound, I take Rigo by a long run.