Mares came off a 16-month layoff to win, Walters blamed loss on 11-mo layoff

[Mr. Objectivity]

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

The truth beside me. Sleeping comfortable for years too.

[Rip Chudd]

who was a super featherweight fighting at welterweight the first time. he cheated him in the scales as well.

This is true^^^^^^^

[Lords]

Every fighter is different, it also comes down to what the fuk they were doing during their layoffs. I remember Mikey Garcia saying during his layoff he was in the gym all the time sparring and staying in shape and he's looked good since his comeback.

[kiaba360]

Cuenca was coming off a layoff himself, and Lomachenko is also of a higher caliber than Cuellar. I still don't know if Mares will beat the other top fighters, but he definitely looked good last night.

[Dean_Razorback]

cuellar last fight was in december last year, so they were both coming from longs layoff

[daggum]

if mares fought lomachenko he would have a bunch of excuses as to why he lost as well, although he prob would have gone down in a blaze of low blow glory against lomachenko

[dan_cov]

Never big on Cuellar but suspected he'd win this based on him being almost twice Mares' size quite literally.

Is this fight worth watching?

[Kigali]

Part of that is because of his advanced age.

Wladimir was great to watch in his 20s and early 30s.

Back when he was getting KTFO..

[victorythagr8]

I think lomenchenko is a higher caliber fighter than who mares fought. The last time Mares fought a fighter in that caliber that he got ko'd in the 2nd round

[M Bison]

The layoff excuse is utter nonsense, the people saying Ward is still rust are absolutely talking out their backside.
I think it maybe depends on how well you treat your body and If you're still training, if you don't bloat up to 200lbs like BJS did it shouldn't be a problem, boxing is like riding a bike you don't simply forget the ins and outs of it a good solid training camp will sort a good boxer out but if you're burning 40lbs....