Comments Thread For: Lomachenko-Sosa: Arum Solidifies MGM National Harbor as Site

[g27region]

Loma, Gvozdyk and Shakur on the same night, that's a pretty good card

[Mitchell Kane]

I like that HBO is going to televise Gvozdyk...hopefully they televise Stevenson as well.

It's nice to see some new blood on HBO.

[NEETzsche]

Boxing promoters are such dipsh^ts or that casino money is sexier than building up their fighter for the long haul. Why Arum is putting every Loma fight in NYC or Philly (the two biggest Ukrainian American cities in the US) every time out to build this talent potential future stars following & fanbase more is beyond me. Sosa isn't even a DC guy. What in the f#ck maaaaaaaaaaaan.

Honestly, Arum is usually pretty good at building up a fighter locally, I think Lomachenko's purse guarantee is just too much for that route. If Loma is going to be a star it's going to come through his skills, so I think Arum will get him that 3rd title in his 3rd division soon and then maybe throw him in at the deep end against Crawford

[Eff Pandas]

Honestly, Arum is usually pretty good at building up a fighter locally, I think Lomachenko's purse guarantee is just too much for that route. If Loma is going to be a star it's going to come through his skills, so I think Arum will get him that 3rd title in his 3rd division soon and then maybe throw him in at the deep end against Crawford

Getting titles is one thing, but building popularity is another. And to me Loma doesn't seem as popular as he could be or even to be moving in the direction all that much. Outside of GGG there aren't a lot of popular Russian or "Russian States"/Eastern Euro boxers despite some of those guys being among the most talented boxers in the game today as a group.

Someone needs to be cultivating that fanbase in the states more cuz there are a bunch of those guys on the way up who could grow off that fanbase & Loma is damn near like the Eastern Euro Sugar Ray Leonard & seems like the guy you'd wanna try that out on & build up that base with.

But maybe that Ukrainian-American boxing fan base is about as loyal as the Cuban-American boxing fan base doe. Idk tbh, it just seems to me like it hasn't really been applied very well.

[Mitchell Kane]

Getting titles is one thing, but building popularity is another. And to me Loma doesn't seem as popular as he could be or even to be moving in the direction all that much. Outside of GGG there aren't a lot of popular Russian or "Russian States"/Eastern Euro boxers despite some of those guys being among the most talented boxers in the game today as a group.

Someone needs to be cultivating that fanbase in the states more cuz there are a bunch of those guys on the way up who could grow off that fanbase & Loma is damn near like the Eastern Euro Sugar Ray Leonard & seems like the guy you'd wanna try that out on & build up that base with.

But maybe that Ukrainian-American boxing fan base is about as loyal as the Cuban-American boxing fan base doe. Idk tbh, it just seems to me like it hasn't really been applied very well.

There aren't that many Ukraninian's in the US....under a million according to some statistics.

Put it this way, there's about as many Ukrainian's in the US as there are Polish-Americans there are in Chicago-area alone.

[Eff Pandas]

There aren't that many Ukraninian's in the US....under a million according to some statistics.

Put it this way, there's about as many Ukrainian's in the US as there are Polish-Americans there are in Chicago-area alone.

I understand that, but there are hotbeds of many ethnic groups/nationalities all over in the US. And it seems like based on that knowledge you'd wanna throw Loma in NYC & Philly more often. I mean to me there is a fake it til you make sorta promotional spin that promoters can take advantage of with putting a guy in a more favorable venue. Plus I think its hard to get a foreign guy in the US to crossover when his own people aren't really following him so you need that built in fanbase to even get a chance to almost fool mainstream/casual boxing fans into thinking Loma is worth following & watching.

Idk like I said. And I know its a uphill battle either way cuz Loma is a lil guy + a foreign guy in the US + isn't blasting guys out like a mini-Tyson or fights in a super entertaining way like peak Pacquiao did, but my feeling is he could be made more popular taken a more Crawford-like approach to where he fights. And hell he did fight in NYC last year so maybe this is something Arum is starting to do already I just think its something that should be focused on.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Cash me outside bltch

Yo, I just found out where you got that quote from.

[HanzGruber]

Boxing promoters are such dipsh^ts or that casino money is sexier than building up their fighter for the long haul. Why Arum is putting every Loma fight in NYC or Philly (the two biggest Ukrainian American cities in the US) every time out to build this talent potential future stars following & fanbase more is beyond me. Sosa isn't even a DC guy. What in the f#ck maaaaaaaaaaaan.

Honestly, Arum is usually pretty good at building up a fighter locally, I think Lomachenko's purse guarantee is just too much for that route. If Loma is going to be a star it's going to come through his skills, so I think Arum will get him that 3rd title in his 3rd division soon and then maybe throw him in at the deep end against Crawford

the casino/hotel is like 3 months old so they prob are paying a bit.. but it only seats 2-3k people. Arum has to be losing money for damn near every loma fight