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Ward moved up for a total of like 5 fights his entire career. Loma is already closing in on that mark in his second division before his 15th career fight. Before that Ward was a 190 to 200 lbs man weight bullying guys at 168 for almost his entire career, according to his own trainer. No wonder his opponents were reportedly always so surprised at "how strong Ward was" in the clinch and on the inside, at 168. What a mystery!
And then you bring up Ward as an example of how a true champion does things... you must be trolling. You must also not know that Lomachenko offered Rigondeaux the fight at 126, Rigondeaux declined. He was offered 500k, more than Lomachenko made to fight Salido, more than Salido made to fight Lomachenko, more than Gary Russell made to fight Lomachenko, and roughly the same as Lomachenko made to fight Russell. But, Rigo declined.
You must also not know that Lomachenko offered Walters the fight immediately after Walters fight with Sosa, but Walters declined. That's when Lomachenko offered Walters 300k out of his own purse if Walters won as a way to motivate Walters to take the fight, and eventually at the end of the year, after Lomachenko had built his name up more by winning a title in a second weight class and getting the knockout of his career, Lomachenko was a big enough star to offer Walters even more money, and Walters finally took the fight about 10 months after his last fight, not even a year layoff. If Canelo-GGG happens next May, that will be an 8 month layoff for both fighters. Not such a huge difference.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Lomachenko's very next fight after Salido against Gary Russell Jr. on American soil, with an American referee, fighting on Russell's network, PBC and Showtime? What was uneven about that one... lol...
Mikey used to fight at 126. Maybe Mikey avoided him by moving up at the speed of light, knowing Lomachenko could only do it at the speed of sound? 
Terence Crawford is a 165 pound man who drains to 140 to weight bully his opponents. Unlike Lomachenko he has never fought an A-level opponent his size. Crawford was at 140 when Lomachenko was at 126, a three division difference. Since then Lomachenko moved up, and Crawford hasn't yet, creating the illusion that they are only two divisions apart in natural size, but Crawford is about to move up again for his next fight, which will make the difference three divisions once again. Still, if both clean out their weight areas, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Bob Arum fed the foreign fighter to the much bigger American fighter in order to try to create a pay-per-view star, and Lomachenko would probably do it since he is possibly the biggest risk-taker in the sport, but first Crawford needs to clean out 147 and Lomachenko needs to clean out 130 and 135, so hold your horses.
I mean, you are literally accusing Lomachenko of ducking someone three divisions bigger than him who he would probably be willing to fight anyway, so it's hilarious how wrong you are on multiple levels. It's like the Inception movie of being wrong. Incredible.
As for Mikey Garcia, his brother and Lomachenko's manager have both said they're trying to hype that matchup into a PPV fight. As a fan that's pretty annoying, but at least from Lomachenko's perspective, if the networks aren't willing to put up big money then I guess it's only fair he should get PPV money for being willing to move up in weight to fight maybe the hardest puncher in the sport, pound-for-pound, who is also an elite boxer and a naturally 10-to-15 pound bigger man. Lomachenko is not ducking him at all, it's just certain racists haters (I can't imagine who) accused Lomachenko of ducking Rigondeaux, and Rigo kept calling him out online, so he decided to take care of Rigondeaux before moving up.
Otherwise, if he had moved up before fighting Rigondeaux, you would have said he did it to duck Rigo. The definition of a hater! Send me guidance from above, because this poster's ******ity got me got me questioning, where is the love??? Where is the love???? Where is the love (the love, the love)????
For real bro, you're making a fool of yourself. You sound ****ing ridiculous. You even criticized him for "losing" to Salido and then in the next sentence complained about Lomachenko not fighting on "even playing fields," a basic yet hilarious mistake on your part, seeing as Lomachenko-Salido was not an even playing field for Lomachenko at all. So you discredit every Lomachenko win because you say he had advantages, but you somehow give Salido full credit for beating Lomachenko despite the fact he had advantages in that fight. Interesting how that works. And so I repeat, where is the love, bro!!
the dude will never fight someone on an even playing field
before that he fought Walters coming off a 1 year lay off.
After Salido beat Loma, the dude will never fight someone on an even playing field.
He avoided Mikey Garcia by not moving up to 135 to fight him, calls himself p4p but wont ever fight Bud who sits at 140.
Terence Crawford is a 165 pound man who drains to 140 to weight bully his opponents. Unlike Lomachenko he has never fought an A-level opponent his size. Crawford was at 140 when Lomachenko was at 126, a three division difference. Since then Lomachenko moved up, and Crawford hasn't yet, creating the illusion that they are only two divisions apart in natural size, but Crawford is about to move up again for his next fight, which will make the difference three divisions once again. Still, if both clean out their weight areas, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Bob Arum fed the foreign fighter to the much bigger American fighter in order to try to create a pay-per-view star, and Lomachenko would probably do it since he is possibly the biggest risk-taker in the sport, but first Crawford needs to clean out 147 and Lomachenko needs to clean out 130 and 135, so hold your horses.
I mean, you are literally accusing Lomachenko of ducking someone three divisions bigger than him who he would probably be willing to fight anyway, so it's hilarious how wrong you are on multiple levels. It's like the Inception movie of being wrong. Incredible.
As for Mikey Garcia, his brother and Lomachenko's manager have both said they're trying to hype that matchup into a PPV fight. As a fan that's pretty annoying, but at least from Lomachenko's perspective, if the networks aren't willing to put up big money then I guess it's only fair he should get PPV money for being willing to move up in weight to fight maybe the hardest puncher in the sport, pound-for-pound, who is also an elite boxer and a naturally 10-to-15 pound bigger man. Lomachenko is not ducking him at all, it's just certain racists haters (I can't imagine who) accused Lomachenko of ducking Rigondeaux, and Rigo kept calling him out online, so he decided to take care of Rigondeaux before moving up.
Otherwise, if he had moved up before fighting Rigondeaux, you would have said he did it to duck Rigo. The definition of a hater! Send me guidance from above, because this poster's ******ity got me got me questioning, where is the love??? Where is the love???? Where is the love (the love, the love)????
For real bro, you're making a fool of yourself. You sound ****ing ridiculous. You even criticized him for "losing" to Salido and then in the next sentence complained about Lomachenko not fighting on "even playing fields," a basic yet hilarious mistake on your part, seeing as Lomachenko-Salido was not an even playing field for Lomachenko at all. So you discredit every Lomachenko win because you say he had advantages, but you somehow give Salido full credit for beating Lomachenko despite the fact he had advantages in that fight. Interesting how that works. And so I repeat, where is the love, bro!!
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