Mayweather may be a better fighter at their ceiling weights. That wouldn't invalidate arguments for Pacquiao being greater.
Besides, Pacquiao fighting at 147 to me is like Floyd fighting at 154, Pacquiao has remained there and faced more top opposition than what Floyd has at 154. Pacquiao even ventures north of 147 with a catch weight fight at 150. Floyd never fought anyone at above 154, not even 155.
I find it so interesting that Ward has been open to the idea of challenging AJ for a while. I don't see how he could win, but would be interested in seeing him try. I would also figure that someone as small as Ward challenging AJ would mess with AJ mentally a bit. I don't know, I might be wrong, but it's just the feeling I get.
Loma is still winning rounds. Soon enough everyone will understand Loma won every round against Lopez, and we just couldn't appreciate the Matrix as the fight happened.
I don't get the appeal for this match up, but to each their own. Maybe there just wasn't enough interest, and they're still trying to measure how successful the event can be.
This is a quwstion for Tank, his team, and the athletic commission. Chances are no one that posts here knows what happened, and foul play, while possible, is not the only explanation.
I think boxing would be a huge help in toughening you up and restoring your confidence. But boxing is just a tool to bring that out of you. Ultimately it's up to you, and you will have to face and overcome your fears and insecurities in the boxing gym. Good luck!
It's up to interpretation, and how you take it. It's hard to truly know the unspoken intent of others. If the people that do it say it's to pay homage, than that's probably the best way to interpret it.
Didn't Shane Mosley do it too?
Honestly, it's a yes for me. I think he's a good fighter, but he doesn't seem to be all there mentally. He can believe what he wants, but coming out like that with what seems like jusy more excuses is just not a good look.
It's confusing, but basically the WBC has lost its d@mn mind. In what I believe to be the WBCs response to Canelo being pissed at them after the WBC made GGG It's mandatory and tried to force that fight, the WBC came up with the Franchise belt. Apparently it's a belt given to superstars or cash cows in order to not piss them off with mandatrories while still benefiting from sanctioning fees.
When a WBC franchise champion is named, the WBC mandatory gets a chance to fight for the "vacant" WBC title to become the (regular?) WBC champion. That is what happened with Jermall Charlo at middleweight and Devin Haney at lightweight, with Canelo and Lomachenko (now Teofimo Lopez) being the WBC franchise champions.
That would be impressive for sure, but he would still need to build out his resume at 140 to solidify his greatness. As nice as those accomplishments would be, it's just 2 fights, not many fighters get opportunities like that and it would not be considered as impressive as someone unifying two divisions before becoming undisputed in both weightclasses.
Didn't people start putting Lomachenko at #1 after he beat an older, smaller fighter that he was larger than?
No, and he had tried to make the fight with Rigo earlier at a lower weight, it's a shame it didn't happen then. But Lomachenko actually unified at 135 as an undersized non-puncher, he just fell short of becoming undisputed.
They're elite chins for sure. Floyd and Canelo have great defense too which makes hurting and stopping them even more complicated.
I don't know about best chin evers, but they're elite for sure.
Not warranted, but it would be welcomed. At some point I will rewatch the fight, but I'm having a really hard time understanding people that had Loma ahead or thought he won.
Each rd is judged independently of the others. Almost as if they're their own mini fights. Yes there were a lot of close rounds, but Loma wasn't winning a lot of those, and he legitimately gave away 4-5 rounds. People are acting as if any time Loma landed something he automatically deserved the round.
I'll subscribe to his channel. Seems like the dad doesn't know the fighters too well, but it's good to see the support the kid is getting from his parents with the channel.
Not really #1, we have a case of an older smaller fighter losing to a young talent that's also larger than him. In my opinion Loma is still a better p4p fighter than Lopez, he just may not be a better lightweight. But i fully expected Loma to go down in the p4p rankings and for Lopez to potentially enter people's p4p lists.
I would wait and see if Gervonta or Berchelt are interested in moving up to fight Lopez should they win their next fights. If not, a move to 140 would probably be best. Would be a shame (from a manager's point of view) to lose the undisputed championship and momentum to another young gun like Devin Haney.
Mikey needs to go back down to 140 but he's chasing Pacquiao money...
Yes, and the likelihood of Mikey being involved in a Top Rank super fight is probably really low right now. But it would be a very good fight in my opinion.
That's because Lomachenko was incapable of making those into swing rounds, Lopez turned with him and met him at every stop. If he wasn't turning with him he'd have him at a solid distance. It's intimidating when your best attribute, that being your footwork, is quickly nullified. Then you add in the fact that Loachenko did not like those punches he was feeling and you can see why he wasn't throwing. I know you ain't saying Lomachenko gave them away but I don't think it requires much thinking, Lomachenko couldn't do a thing early on.
Your not gonna give rounds away to a guy who's outsmarting you and can physically hang, that's about as illogical as it gets.
Exactly, well said.
I think he may be giving up on the Spence fight. He said it did affect his legacy at 147, if the fight didn't happen, but that he has already accomplished so much that over all it wouldn't affect his legacy. I think he's probably referring to his chances of making it to the HOF and being considered a great fighter. However, I agree both Spence and Crawford need to fight eachother to maximize their legacies.