Comments Thread For: Arum Reacts To The Chatter of a Pacquiao vs. Lomachenko Showdown

[AdonisCreed]

Well if Loma fights Pac at 140 then everybody is going to want Loma to fight Mikey Garcia at 140! I don't know if Pac has enough to deal with Loma movement at this age but if he wins this could be the win he needed to erase that Jeff Horn debacle. Also who does Crawford fight after the horn fight if Pac fights Loma??? A lot of story lines to be made from this scenario.

[j.razor]

This would be like De La Hoya vs Pacquiao, the past prime legend moving down in weight to face the next rising superstar. I actually don’t mind this fight, Pacquiao would be essentially passing the torch of TR’s star fighter.

Funny that Bud is going to 147 but bob won't put manny with Bud at that weight to make him the next tr star....Intresting that he would do it for loma though.......interesting that the people who support the corruption in boxing call this many vs loma "a passing of the torch."

[j.razor]

Loma isn't good enough to jump 2 weight classes?

It only works for someone else to move up for him not the other way around....

[j.razor]

Egis Klimas and Bob Arum better get on the same page.

bob is the boss.

[j.razor]

Did Kovalev really say that?

As for Loma, I already know how the haters are going to spin these out of context quotes. In reality I just saw a video of Freddie Roach where he's saying Pacquiao needs a tuneup fight in April before fighting Loma in the fall. And that's for 140, not 135. So to think everyone else wanted Loma-Pacquiao at 140, but that his father said the weight is too much and that's the main reason the fight won't happen in April, is not what appears to be the case.

As for Loma-Rigo happening at 130, remember Loma offered the fight to Rigo at 126 first, and Rigo is the one who declined. So if Pacquiao was at 135 right now, and he offered the fight to Loma at 135, but Loma turned it down, and then Pacquiao outgrew 135 and moved to 140, and then Loma started calling Pacquiao out despite rejecting the fight at 135, and then Pacquiao offered it again at 140, but Loma rejected it again, then there would be a comparison between the two situations. But, that's not the case. Pacquiao has never officially offered Loma the fight at 135 the way Loma offered Rigo the fight at 126, otherwise I'm sure Loma would say yes, unlike Rigo at 126.

You left out the weight Rigo was at in that time & that bob didn't want to pay him. Your full of **** & loma won't take the fight two weight divisons up like Rigo did.

[j.razor]

I mean, he offered Broner the fight. Danny Garcia. They're the ones who ducked Pacquiao, it's not on Arum. He definitely prefers in-house fights, but he's not as strict about it as Haymon. Haymon hasn't really put a single one of his name fighters in a big fight against a boxer with another promoter. As I said, his guys like Broner and DSG both turned down the opportunity, which means Haymon probably advised them to do that. Haymon is the worst when it comes to this, GBP and Top Rank are in the middle, and K2, Main Events, etc, are the best, probably because they are smaller promotional outfits.

You are so full of ****. Why do the fighters leave then if its SO GOOD? Exactly! Cuz they actually getting good fights done & more change in their pockets with Al. Get a real job that helps & not support the corruption cuz I know you getting paid to lie. FOH!

And Broner said bob didn't want to pay him & there were no talks with DSG & manny's team so if there was provide us some info please.

[j.razor]

Pac is too big for Loma. There are plenty of ww for pac to fight. This is pretty bad for pac to fight some one so small. This is not the actions of a atg.

loma did it with Rigo....

[j.razor]

I say 138 is a good Catchweight. Pacquiao has HUGEeals while training and he still comes in around 144 for his fights. He really should he fighting at 140 IMO.

144? How long ago was that cuz it hasn't been recently?? What we DO KNOW is that loma came in 138 for his last fight & wasn't allowed to go past that which means loma could easily make 140 to meet manny if they want to make that fight.

[DeadLikeMe]

Why does it call Lomachenko unbeaten?

[The Big Dunn]

Yo Steve Kim should be fired. He calls Loma unbeaten in this article. Is he just going to erase the Salido loss?

What kind of unprofessional, fake news BS is this guy peddling?