Comments Thread For: Lomachenko vs. Linares - LIVE BoxingScene Scorecard

[Gillie]

That was a great fight! Linares fought well and had his best success throwing combinations and at distance. The knockdown was legit and he caught Lomachenko being careless and over confident. But Lomachenko didn't lose focus and tightened up that defense a bit more, finding better spots to punch. That last set of punches, throwing in that sneaky body shot were great. What an entertaining fight!

Best post I've read about this fight so far. Everything is either Loma is now SRR or he's no good and this fight proves that Mikey Garcia will destroy him. Good stuff bro! Peace.

[Metho_4u]

The whole “twelve pro fights” thing kinda loses some it it’s luster when a guy is thirty years old.

Oh, it does? But what about how "the amateurs aren't the pros" thing? I've seen that one posted a lot, so it shouldn't matter much right?

Just tell me, who do you think is Mikey's best win?

[BillyBoxing]

Dude, that’s also the Floyd-Manny size debate. Manny got a lot of credit for coming all the way up to welterweight from flyweight. But he was extremely young when he started. And by comparison, at the same ages, Floyd was fighting at similar weights as a amateur. But Floyd wasn’t as celebrated for moving up as much as Manny was.

Linares was the bigger guy. But it wasn’t as a big a size difference as some are making it out to be.

Nah Manny was a featherweight in his 30s, Floyd was already a WW.

Manny and Floyd being same size is a fake debate.

Regarding Linares, he was bigger and he's a technical cat, beat an olympic gold medalist in campbell.

I never expected it to be easy.

Linares isn't getting caught anymore like he did younger.

[Gooldy23]

LL was half a foot taller than Roy and had at least sixty pounds of natural weight on him. Probably more. Lomachencko is actually listed as an inch taller than Mikey and they both started their careers as featherweights. Bad comparison.

Garcia is taller and he has much bigger skeleton/body. As well as significant reach advantage. Google Garcia Loma and you shall see for yourself.
Considering Lomas antropometry (reach, shoulder width) he obviously can't follow up to Pac/Floyd/Roys move in weight class. A guy has significantly lower capacities for gaining body weight.
Loma have never fought lower than 57(featherweight, right?) since he was 17.

[turnedup]

Dude was stopped by Demarco, who was destroyed by Broner. And a couple cats worse than Demarco. I’m sorry if I can’t forget about that for the sake of stroking Lomachencko.

Triangle theories don't work in boxing, sorry that's more excuses to **** on what is arguably a great boxer.

[hitking]

Triangle theories don't work in boxing, sorry that's more excuses to **** on what is arguably a great boxer.

Triangle theories don’t work when talking about who would win a head to head fight. But triangle theories sometimes can be used to see what level a guy is. It’s almost like moving a prospect. If he has trouble with the C and D level guys. It’s highly unlikely that he’s gonna be successful when he gets to the A and B level guys. It’s one thing for a guy to have a tougher than expected time to a guy a level or so below the level he’s supposed to be at. But when a guy loses multiple times to low level competition. It’s pretty safe to say he’ll never be an A level guy. We don’t know what Lomachencko’s ceiling is. But we do know Linares’s. And it’s a couple levels below world beater

[Vlad_]

ATTENTION LINARES FANS:

Please submit your excuses AHEAD of time. Thank you.

Didn't you hear? Linares is totally a shot fighter, a complete bum, a cherry pick.

[Input1914]

Same bias as sho and hbo they're just boring as hell

SHO is a bit more fair but you're right ESPN is boring. Removing Teddy was a big mistake. He was pretty entertaining during the Horn-Pac fight but ESPN has become too lame to realize it