Not hating, nor do i need to be a racist. Just calling it like i see it. Salido work to have the belt that he got. Bob and HBO disrespected the man lifetime of work for Loma. By giving Loma that fight, you saw what Bob think of Salido. What Salido realized that even though he had the belt. He never had the respect from Bob,HBO and WBO. I'm pretty sure Loma wasn't the #1,#2 or #3 ranked fighter by WBO. But got the fight for the title. Since the title means **** all, why make weight. Lets take this AMA KING to school. Thats exactly what happened. If i'm Gary Russell, Jr. I'm wondering wtf is going on here. Cause Bob don't got my best interest!!! Bottom line Loma lost, doesn't matter how he just did.
Salido won the vacant title against a guy who earned it by coming out of the closet and who was way less competitive.
He lost a SD to a seasoned world champion in his 2nd fight. He went 12 rounds with ease after only 1 fight. Even though he lost he's probably learnt and achieved more in his first 2 fights than any new pro has. You could say he was arrogant to think he could fight for a world title after 2 fights but its a refreshing change from an ameture fighter fighting 20 cans before stepping up.
A lot of people are hating on Lomo because of the hype and the preferential treatment, but everything you said is true. The kid may never live up to the hype; but what he did in only his second pro fight is impressive, even in defeat.
Respect to you...and now we know that everyone who wrote him off after this performance is a fool and Loma made them eat their words.
Calling him Rigo's food lol and now a few years later he has made Rigo quit
Im not so sure about that, he is very tentative, and doesn't really have the the kind of outside technical skills of 2 time gold medalist.
In the AMA's he was able to get by stopping everyone left and right because he was able to walk in with ear muffs and put together very accurate combinations to get people standing counts.
I don't think he will ever be able to box and move from the outside for 12 rounds to win fight, which is what will be required for him to succeed without power.
It is very clear after last night that he doesn't have the power, AT ALL. It wasn't even a situation where he was throwing hard and Salido just has a great chin. Loma is just visibly is an arm puncher, with no snap.
He just unfortunately doesn't have the power to make the kind of aggressive style is is famous for work in the Pro ranks.
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