How was he ever pound for pound #1?
White people are so desperate for one who they can call their own to compete against great blacks, great Latinos, and great Asian fighters ... remember how many opportunities Algieri got before they resigned themselves into the fact that he was just a bum?
Every 5 years, they'll bring us another bum like punch-shy and hype him up.
He fought a stupid fight in the first 7 rounds by retreating and not throwing punches. He started fighting like he should in rounds 8 9 10 and 11. In those rounds he took the fight to Lopez and was anything but a little *****. he won all 4 of those rounds and had Lopez taking punishment and not liking it at all. He had Lopez backing up. Simply put in those 4 rounds he kicked Lopez's ass. Lopez won the first 7 rounds because Loma did nothing. Lopez had a great 12 round and won it to get a 116 to 112 win on my card. It was a good win but not the wipe out you are saying it was. You clearly already hated Loma before the fight and are thrilled to kick him hard when he is down. Loma did lots of great things in the ring and they don't instantly disappear with one close loss to an outstanding young boxer. Almost every boxing expert rated Loma as one of the best two or three boxers in the world and not a hype job as he beat champion after champion in weight class after weight class. Were they all stupid and the only smart ones are you and the other Loma haters most of who hate all Eastern European champions?