Did Lomencheko set a new standard for Olympic Gold Medalist?

[Boxfan83]

Should all gold medalist be expected to be matched tough right away and/or receive a title shot with less than 10 fights? Why or why not??


Discuss...

[Lester Tutor]

He set the standard for the first Gold Medalist to lose in his 2nd Pro Fight under Top Rank, and against an opponent who had lost 6 of his fights previously by KO.

[Madison Boxing]

depends how experienced they are. Lomachenko is an extreme case though in terms of how quickly hes been moved. i do think the fighters with hundreds of amateur wins and gold medals should be moved on quickly. They should be good enough to bypass the domestic scenes pretty quick and get to fringe world level after 10 or so fights. No need for them to fight bums at start of career and blow them out within a round or 2.

[Madison Boxing]

He set the standard for the first Gold Medalist to lose in his 2nd Pro Fight under Top Rank, and against an opponent who had lost 6 of his fights previously by KO.

so what, he learnt from it and moved on. YOu are stuck in the ****** modern boxing mindset in which a loss is disastrous and its better to manufacture an unbeaten record than fight a risky fight early on in career.

[jmrf4435]

He set the standard for the first Gold Medalist to lose in his 2nd Pro Fight under Top Rank, and against an opponent who had lost 6 of his fights previously by KO.

Won't and still doesn't really matter about that loss. He's had decent wins in walters and martinez and will probably end up as one of the best top rank fighters of all time. Hopefully he can get a crack at Garcia or Crawford.

Stay salty my friend

[jmrf4435]

Regarding the OP.

Lomachenko is kinda in a class of his own. I hope he motivates boxers to speed up the rate of their career and take more risks in general.

[BoxingFan85]

IMO No.. Olympics & amateur styles are focused mainly on winning points & also they are not the same activity rate that a fighter maintains for 12 rounds.. People take a while to build stamina to go full 12 & also pro style is also defense first approach(not get hit) because of no headgears(well there are no heagears in olympics anymore but rest of the amateur tournaments still do)..

[Dr Rumack]

Lomachenko and Rigo weren't your average gold medallists. They were special fighters.

[Ray Corso]

"an opponent who had lost 6 of his fights previously by KO".


His tko & KO losses go back to 2000, 14 years before he fought Lomo!
You talk as if Salido is some kind of "soft spot" who has "bum performances"!

Most of these great amateurs who have a long career often struggle against veteran pros when they first meet them.
Their also in their late 20's as they turn pro so they are career 3 round fighters for 16-20 years!
Lomo is ready now for anyone but when he met Salido, Salido was ready for him!

Ray

[Scipio2009]

Should all gold medalist be expected to be matched tough right away and/or receive a title shot with less than 10 fights? Why or why not??


Discuss...

Lomachenko was a different case, in the fact that he'd been basically fighting at the top amateur level since he was 16 years old, fighting at that top level and schooling guys until he was 24 (he'd been fighting at the open division level since he was 17/18).

Robeisy Ramírez, the Cuban double-Gold medalist eyeing a third Gold medal in 2020 (where he'd be all of 26/27 years old), would be the type of fighter that I'd imagine being moved very quickly (Lomachenko quick, if he wanted) were he to ever turn pro.

Outside of that, most of the Olympic boxers that get to the Gold medal are either career amateur fighters in their late 20s/30s (with no ambition towards pro careers) or just turned-over Junior Olympians, still learning their craft (Floyd, Roy, and Andre Ward were all younger than 20 when they had their Olympic runs).