How will Lomachenko's career will be remembered after he retires.

[paulf]

Loma will go down as an all-time great at Super Featherweight.

And maybe the best of his era at 135. Tank ducked him and he lost razor thin decisions to Haney and Lopez, guys a decade younger than him.

An aside: If not for the war in Ukraine, Loma's legacy would look very different.

[MichaelT123]

I’ll mostly remember him for showing ambition.

He sought out the biggest challenges available to him.

He had an unusual run where he outclassed fighters by such a margin that four consecutive opponents quit on their stools.

I’ll remember him for the poor decision of fighting Teofimo with a shoulder injury, which meant he didn’t start throwing punches until the second half of the fight.

I’ll also remember Loma then getting the raw end of a decision to the younger and more marketable Devin Haney, despite Lomachenko outclassing the much bigger Haney over 12 rounds.

He had an impressive career, especially considering how short it was. I personally thought Loma won 5 of 6 rounds when he eventually turned it on against Teofimo. Teofimo won, and he showed grit coming out and taking the 12th round; however it seemed plain to me that a healthy Lomachenko would have clearly outboxed Teofimo Lopez.

These things happen I guess. ♂️

[MichaelT123]

Mental Illness on full display. Holy Sht

Actually, I think that’s called insight and intelligence.

[Eff Pandas]

The thing is with expectations defining feelings oftentimes his career feels kinda underwhelming honestly. He's maybe the best amateur ever. His whole pro career was on a high level with his transition to belt fights in fight 2. He won belts at 126, 130 & 135 & I believe he was #1 in all those divisions which is more impressive to me being that many guys have won belts in multiple divisions while being #1 in only 1 or none of those divisions. He beat several belt holders. He beat a future HOFer in Rigo.

And for most guys that'd be overachieving, but for Loma who had maybe the highest expectations turning pro since maybe Mark Breland (who also had a underwhelming pro career to me) or SRL it just doesn't seem like enough. That said he's a future HOFer & was considered among the best of his era by fans which to me is the highest level one can attain so at the end of the day expectations from fans, his team, his dad or even himself at 0-0 don't really matter.

[uppercut510]

atg amature who should have turned pro earlier, decent pro career, great skills

[Eff Pandas]

Never as good as his pole riding stans said. Never as bad as his staunch haters said.

LOL I like this.

Loma is definitely "one of those guys". He gots a lot of **** riders & a lot of haters. There's boxers I hate talking about sometimes cuz I know weirdos are either gonna say I'm a fanboy if I'm praising that boxer or a hater if I'm being critical of that boxer when all I'm doing is trying to call it like I see it. Loma is one of them.

[Legends456]

Loma’s career felt like a strange sort of letdown that was still beautiful and exciting to watch.