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He is white and slick.
Thats all it takes to trigger a certain demographic.Comment
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It's more to do with the fanboys when it comes to the hate. Loma is a phenomenal fighter, and king of AM, but Pro is a different ball game.
Fanboys will push the narrative that Loma is the GOAT and would beat anyone in history P4P. The harder his fanboys push the narrative, the more disrespect they show to the history of the sport, the more haters Loma will get. Fanboys think Loma beating Campbell and Linares is enough to propel him to ATG HOF GOAT because he is undersized. Yet most of them have probably never seen or heard of Duran vs Barkley or SRL vs Hearns.
His fanboys were so confident that Campbell is an elite win, that they would laugh at the idea that Ryan Garcia would beat him. Then bam, 23 year old prospect that may not even reach elite status lays him out. And Linares never got to beat the top guy in Uchiyama (who would have flattened him in 1 round), because he kept getting laid out then flew over to the U.K to fight Crolla and Campbell.
That is the super elite win they like to push on the ignorant masses that never followed Linares's career. They are also quick to call Linares shot after losing to Haney. But anyone questioning Rigo's peak and size, they don't want a bar of it. Rigo is his best win, but comes with a major asterisk too.Last edited by PistolPat; 12-17-2021, 07:52 AM.Comment
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Say what you want about Campbell, but Garcia is no joke. And I'll tell you why: I thought some of Garcia's KO's were setups at one point because it appeared that guys were dropping after not even being hit. They had to slow that **** down for me to actually see that he hit the guy (usually with his left hook) for me to realize he has devastating KO power. He might have the strongest punches in the game. He has the best left hook in at lightweight, Lopez included. If Garcia can get his head on straight, he has a very promising career. He needs to fix a few things before moving up to other weight classes.
And you can never **** on Linares. That guy is one of the most skilled boxers in the game. That Haney fight was really close, and he had Haney trying to have sex with him in the middle of the ring. That's how bad Haney was. I've never seen a boxer charge another boxer and tackle him just so he can be up next to him. **** was unreal and Haney should have been docked a point for repeated and flagrant leg humping.
Linares is my guy. Everyone believed he'd go very far, and if it weren't for some bad decisions (two corrupt ones occurring in Mexico) and his propensity for cutting, he would have a much different record than he does now.
Is Loma an ATG? Well, his career is not over yet, so we have to see. But before Duran beat Barkley, he was losing to Wilfredo Benitez and a whole host of other boxers as he moved up in weight. So cut the **** man. You don't know what you're talking about when you say this crap.Last edited by Cypocryphy; 12-17-2021, 07:54 AM.Comment
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I wouldn't say Loma ain't **** but multi-weight really isn't anymore. He and like everyone else who isn't a HW.
It's a bit like picking a MA who fought HWs and did well prior to the min. It's cool but you can't put Tommy Ryan too far up the p4p list for that given basically every MW with a name did that during that era....takes some off what is otherwise an impressive feat.
Armstrong, impressive 3 weight champion.
Loma, just a multi-weight in an era of multi-weights.
His glory, imo, is more in who he's fought and when than what divisions he captured belts in.Comment
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