Comments Thread For: Devin Haney: "Crawford Older Than Loma, Is He Old? No, Don't Say That Loma Old"

[Liondw]

35 is in the young adult age bracket, albeit the last year that one is classified a young adult.

You get a young 35, a young 45 and an old 35. Depends on the person.

They probably say that at these lighter weights, it's a bit of an age, and that Loma had hundreds of amateur fights. Also, because they saw some slippage in Loma. He's been in this sport a very long time, counting amateur days to professional.

Haney, excellent boxer, sure he rehydrated to quite a high weight.

[TDLand]

Their great hype turned out to be not so good. His best win was a bantamweight Rigo.

What the hell you talking about?

[TDLand]

All Haney has done is try to fight Loma as eay as possible. Loma did everything to move away from that fight.

This is going to be one of those cases where fans that dont like haney lower this win because Loma was old, but hold nothing against Loma for dropping the belt and avoiding him when he did.

Whose the real punk here?

You are. For lacking clarity. Loma was promoted to Franchise. He didn't drop the belt persay. He took an upgrade to it. Regardless and this is the clarity portion. No mandatory was ordered. Why? Because Loma was eying the fourth belt. Rules state undisputed has precedence over any mando. A Mando was never ordered because it couldn't. Loma getting Franchise was not avoiding a Mando. A Mando could not be called.

[TDLand]

One sided beating from Rd 1 to Rd 12 awaits Loma. Haney would win atleast 10 rounds.

Could be ... but you don't really know. Could be that Loma schools Haney.

[HandsofIron]

Their great hype turned out to be not so good. His best win was a bantamweight Rigo.

Wrong, Loma's already a living legend based on what he has accomplished at 126, 130 and now trying to go for all the gold at 135 despite him being small for that weight class.

Don't blame Loma for Rigo's dumbass, bad decisions.

[TDLand]

That is revisionist. He dropped the belt to avoid having to make the mando against Haney because a loss wouldve meant no Teo unification.

Now he’s fighting Haney because he lost to Teo unexpectedly and then the war happened. In the interim, Haney got all the belts. So he cant avoid him anymore.

No. No. No. You are making up facts. Tell me, before Loma was promoted to Franchise, was a Mando ordered? Tell me, before Loma was promoted to Franchise, could a Mando be ordered? The answer is No, in both cases. Why? Undisputed has priority over Mando. You really think Sueileman was going to order the Mando? He never was, because he never could.

[daggum]

crawford has maintained his level for the most part, loma has not and everyone knows this. thats why loma almost lost to a tuneup in his last fight. haney is doing the the floyd thing all over again. wait till guys are old(in ring age especially) and then claim you were always better than them and would have always beaten them. hes all about marketing and misdirection just like when he pretended loma was ducking him when he knew loma was figthing someone better and never ever offered him a fight when loma said make me an offer. now that he knows for sure loma is on the decline hes willing to take the fight and is pretending like loma is still in his prime lmfao.

[TDLand]

All I see many, not all, blacks do is compare and complain. It's called confirmation bias. AJ complained that Loma called him strong. That's an insult AJ said. No one ever said Mayweather was strong. They say he is a master in the ring, fast, intelligent. Loma said Haney is strong and smart. Haney makes light of the praise Loma had gotten on the ring when he made Walters and three others quit on the stool. It's 'they said this about Loma, but they didn't say Yada, Yada about me'. If Haney beats Loma, good job. It's expected. If he makes Loma quit on the stool, that's stupendous. It will then be raved about. Rigo, two gold medals. Loma said, 'He was too small' and wouldn't take praise for bearing him. Haney is not that gracious. And that really stands out. If Loma outboxes Devon, the favorite in the fight, it's a big win. If Haney beats Loma, it's a big thing. But Haney is a liar.

How? When Teo beat Loma, Haney said Loma was over the hill and too old. ****ing bull****. And this whole narrative that Loma avoided Haney. Not ever true.

[rickJen]

The narrative changes overnight. In their presscon ago father and son team were making Loma feel guilty making it appear he's now a huge underdog, that he should regret taking the fight. Seems they're now trying to elevate him like he's some very risky fighter, trying to inch their way into becoming underdogs. What changed?

[landotter]

I hate the comparison between Lomachenko and Crawford. First off, the glaring differences between those fighters pure number of fights in the amateur's and pros has been shown by Zod-66 and Nick F. on page one of this thread, so I will not waste anyone's time. I will just give my opinion that a pure objective look at Lomachenko's competition is a ton better than the names Crawford has fought.

I like Lomachenko a little more than most in this fight, but that may be the fan in me because I love Loma and his style so much. I accept who should be the favored fighter, and that is who has more at stake. Haney will get a ton of credit if he beats Lomachenko. He will receive a ton of criticism if he losses to him. Either outcome will be what he has earned, because at this stage of his career he has zero excuses to lose to a smaller and older challenger.