technically are their things that Usyk does better than Loma?

Collapse
Collapse
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • Rockybigblower
    3 time loser
    Super Champion - 5,000-10,000 posts
    • Dec 2016
    • 7217
    • 1,480
    • 45
    • 51,788

    #11
    Technically speaking...he doesn't lose. He has everything Loma has except ego. Loma thinks that believing he's the best makes him the best. Proven wrong at least 2 times.
    Usyk puts in the grind. Gets the wins.

    Comment

    • deathofaclown
      Undisputed Champion
      Unified Champion - 10,00-20,000 posts
      • Apr 2015
      • 16319
      • 3,918
      • 50
      • 98,604

      #12
      I think Usyk is better. I think he is better at making quicker adjustments too.

      With Loma, if you can negate his angles to a degree, he doesn’t adjust so well and doesn’t have much of a plan B. Teofimo took his angles away with a good pivot and distance and it took Loma 7 rounds to even make small adjustments. Linares and even Pedraza did it somewhat, although Loma got the win, they showed can offset him and make him look much more basic than he does with his Plan A, which is exceptional when it works obviously.

      I think Usyk is slightly more well rounded, even the few times when AJ got up close to Usyk, you could see Usyk adjust to some clever arm position to block uppercuts and whatnot. He’s not as flash as Loma but more well rounded.

      Comment

      • RJJ-94-02=GOAT
        Undisputed Champion
        Franchise Champion - 20,000+ posts
        • Oct 2017
        • 28905
        • 9,230
        • 2,039
        • 246,831

        #13
        Yeah the straight left.

        Comment

        • 1hourRun
          SQUAD-UP!
          Franchise Champion - 20,000+ posts
          • Dec 2010
          • 20526
          • 2,789
          • 2,336
          • 140,312

          #14




          What a ****** question.

          Comment

          • YGriffith
            Undisputed Champion
            Platinum Champion - 1,000-5,000 posts
            • May 2018
            • 1018
            • 365
            • 82
            • 14,853

            #15
            Better ring IQ and better at making adjustments and has more pop in his punches.

            Comment

            • Noelanthony
              Undisputed Champion
              Super Champion - 5,000-10,000 posts
              • Aug 2016
              • 8897
              • 950
              • 586
              • 105,165

              #16
              Originally posted by scopedog
              i think loma has superior footwork even accounting for the difference in size. Even though usyk has exceptional footwork for a big guy he's not got anything like the dazzling teleportation-style rapid changes in positioning and angle that loma has exhibited. When it comes to other physical attributes, i think they're more or less equal in all other aspects.

              I do think usyk has a superior boxing iq though. There have only really been fleeting moments in most of usyk's fights where he's not been in control. He's unbeaten and has never really looked in real danger of losing a professional fight by the time the final bell rings - breidis probably came the closest. Loma on the other hand was taken advantage of by salido's dirty tactics and got it all wrong for the first half of the fight against lopez. The thing that really stuck out to me about usyk in the joshua fight was that he basically won it with his mind. When it comes to physical attributes, he was, at least on paper, outmatched by aj, but he won that fight with equal parts sound strategy and force of will - ie. Using his mind to make up for the bodily difference. To be fair that's a very rare talent to have, but nevertheless it's something i've never seen loma do - all of his wins have come pretty much solely off the back of his dazzling skillset, but it's notable that the times when he's struggled the most have been at times when he's not been able to bring them to bear, either because of salido's dirty tactics that he was permitted to get away with thanks to a lax referee or lopez utilising his height, reach and heavy hands to dissuade loma from engaging. I feel that if you could pause time and transplant usyk's brain into loma's body in both of those fights, the results would have been a lot different because the correct adjustments would have been made much sooner.
              A lot of thought went into this post

              Comment

              Working...
              TOP