Comments Thread For: Devin Haney Overcomes Vasiliy Lomachenko, Wins Decision To Retain Undisputed Crown

[memphis mook]

Beautiful highly skilled fight. Glad ESPN stopped buffering before the main event started. I had it a draw by the way. Body shots vs straight lefts to the face.

[TaurusJ27]

Nice body shots from Haney earlier in the fight.

[Tecnoworld]

This Lomachenko would have won vs Lopez

[Dip_Slide]

Close fight, Haney dominated the first half but gassed out late, Lomachenko competitive throughout and put his foot on the gas in the second half. I had the fight a draw, i'll have to rewatch it again when good footage gets uploaded to youtube. But normally my first score is usually good. Lomachenko inexplicably gave away the last round. Still would've lost a majority decision even if he took the last according to the scorecards. 6-5-1 for Lomachenko seems to be the consensus.

But they don't want a rematch so they made sure Haney won. A rematch is the only acceptable option after a fight like this but we won't get it just like with Lopez, and an asterisks will be put next to that win forever. I feel like making weight hurts Haney late and he should definitely move up.

[letsgochump]

Las Vegas Screw Job.

[Szef]

ESPN on damage control with 20 explanations why it was not a robbery. Now Andre Ward is saying that Haney wearing ***elry and having a goetee made people dislike him.

The nonsense they are saying is annoying.

Andre Ward is a fcking idiot.

He was a fcking idiot when he was a fighter, and is still a fcking idiot when he's a commentator.

[greeneye99]

Yeah a few years of age is so precise that it always kicks in just one minute before these guys can finish a fight they are otherwise dominating in that moment, despite the adrenaline rush they would get from the crowd in that moment that should actually give them more energy.

This happens over and over again in these scripted "fights." If people think that's age, then the snake oil salesmen tricked them again, lol! They always have a ready excuse to divert your attention from the real reasons. It's called sleight of hand. They plan it like, "really it's going to be a fake fight, but in order trick people into not seeing that it is, we're going to dangle these other excuses over here to distract their attention, just like a magician uses sleight of hand to distract people's attention over here while he changes out the card over there while you're not looking."

It was a decent show though. I still think they are really shortchanging their customers though with all the missing and hugging and lack of activity by the fighters. There was a lot of waiting around where nothing much happened, just killing time to make it easier to script, practice, and perform.

Question
If these "Fights" are all following a Script like you keep saying
Why do you still watch them ?
Lol

[Jsmooth9876]

I had it 6-6 and I thought similar to the Teo fight, Loma gave away the 12th round.I could see how there would be a swing round or 2 early on that could change the score either way though. It was a good fight, Loma landed the more damaging shots but Haney did great work to the body. They should run it back to be honest if Haney stays at 135 but if he goes up I expect Loma and Shakur to grab a belt and then fight each other and Maybe Tank gets his hands on the WBC and never fights either of them.

[Jsmooth9876]

I know that Bob Arum is probably pissed right about now

I doubt it, he will get Shakur and Loma ranked #1 by organaztions and they'll both have a title by the end of the year, setting up a unification fight early next year and then Shakur will have 2 titles in his hands and maybe a 3rd depending where the WBC goes but I expect that one to go the PBC, it seems they're in bed with them now.

[Ganondorf]

Vasiliy Lomachenko is a great fighter. He really did well in rounds 10 and 11.

I felt Haney won many early rounds and also to my eyes won rounds 9 and 12.

I won’t argue with anyone who feels Lomachenko won the fight.