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I'm sure most of the regulars know I think very highly of Loma. And the whole narrative that he ducked Haney is asinine. He has been clear virtually his entire career that his goal is undisputed. He wants belts, and he wanted the IBF unification. He was offered it by his team when Sulaiman was pushing to get as many of the top P4P guys as "franchise champions" and it gave him a way to get his unification fight without having to deal with mandatory nonsense. And at the time, Haney didn't have anything to offer that would compete with full unification, because he was just the secondary champion, aka mandatory.
The whole narrative is based upon claims made by Sulaiman, who isn't noted for his honesty to begin, and has a vested interest in shifting blame, not to mention having a long history of being greedy and corrupt.
But Haney is owed some respect. He had to start his pro career off fighting in Mexican bars. He's had to do everything the hard way, up to and including going to Australia twice to dominate the hometown fighter. He's gotten to be the undisputed champion the hard way. I do give him some flak because his style is still viewed as being a hug fest, and he's done a lot of fights where he dominates the first 8 rounds or so and then coasts instead of finishing. I don't give him credit for busting up Kambosos because he hit Kambosos with SO MANY flush shots and couldn't even score a knockdown, or even a 10-8. He landed 49% of his power shots. Do you think Kambosos would have made it out of 12 with that many flush shots being landed by Tank, for instance?
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A high risk low reward for Haney.
If he loses, people will say he was overrated.
If he beats Loma, people will say, oh, he beat an older undersized fighter.
You want to be the best in the world? Fine, fight Spence or Crawford and win.Comment
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