Comments Thread For: Lomachenko: Pros In Olympics Good Idea; Making Weight Tough

[1g5a22]

Lol at this guy bringing up his Salido loss right off the bat. You got bested in the pros, deal with it flash.

Only think Salido bested him at was dirty boxing. Allow a fighter to progress & develop rather than slating him for a 12 round title fight (only his second fight as a pro) highly questionable SD loss. Lomachenko will have learned from it & is only getting better. He's also looking likely to be a two weight champion with only half a dozen fights which is a new record. Nearly every boxer who has lived has been bested in the pros.

[Dafoo]

So my counter point to his point regarding daily weigh-in. That is the rule today. But based on all the rule changes that happen practically every year, whose to say the daily weigh-in rule won't change? If the rules have been changed to allow pros to compete, I don't see why the rules won't continue to be changed to ultimately accommodate the professional fighter; and that includes weigh-ins. Lets be honest, AIBA goal is to ultimately have pros competing in the Olympics. This is just the first step in that goal and it will ultimately hurt Amateurs who consider competing in the Olympics as the pinnacle of their Amateur careers.