Comments Thread For: Lomachenko Gets Off The Floor To Knock Linares Out in Tenth

[The Big Dunn]

This thread is somewhat depressing. Great fight yet so many want to come in and talk about garbage instead of appreciating a great fight and a great performance. Some of you cats seem to have miserable lives.

[Boxing Logic]

Ward ruined your life. I'm sure of it now. Remember your prediction that fight would never take place? it happened twice. Kovalev will be Ward's slave in the afterlife. nothing can change that. He took his fckn soul. Kovalev was even considering training with Virgil Hunter to train closer to his master.

Damn. A pro-slavery black man? Wtf????

[Ajvar]

Sit down, Loma......Yes!!!


Watch Linares go down next.

Masterful prediction.

[Boxing Logic]

MAN COME ON GUYS

Yes it's a well placed Liver shot but Linares gave up.

That's what Loma does to these guys. He doesn't have huge KO power so the first 4-5 rounds, it doesn't look like he's really hurting his opponents with all the clean shots he lands, but in reality he still hits hard enough that even though we can't see them stagger on TV or visibly look hurt, inside it is taking everything out of them. Linares was gasping for air in the corner by the 5th or 6th round, getting doused in water by his corner over and over, looking like he just ran a marathon. Loma's shots to his head and body had already taken everything out of him. That's why even when Linares knocked Loma down, he didn't look exited at all, he looked discouraged because he saw Loma get up immediately and he knew he had very little left to build on that. It's only because of that knockdown and Loma taking the next round off just to be safe and get his legs back that Linares lasted until the 10th. The fact Linares then got hit with a huge, perfectly placed liver shot 5 rounds after he had already had all the energy beaten out of him, you can't expect him to be able to overcome that. Sure he could have tried to continue but he would have been back on the canvas very quickly since he could barely move or breathe at that point.

[NachoMan]

This would be a great moment for some self-awareness. Loma learned something from Linares last night, maybe you can learn something from them too. Here's what I mean. When you have to say "to be fair" after making a completely obvious statement, that would seem to suggest that maybe you're not used to being fair to the subject of your comment. You're basically saying, "I hate Lomachenko and I'm usually super biased against him, but even I have to admit, if I'm being fair for once when it comes to him, that that was a real nice body shot."

So hopefully the fact you made that statement, and now being able to read it back, will make you see clearly in the mirror that maybe you weren't being fair to him before, and you weren't being objective, and maybe now you can be in the future! Improvement is always good! Of course I have no idea of your post history so I could be totally wrong, but based on the comment you made it gave that impression. Peace.

Jesus, you seem like you have real emotional problems, man. The guy made a simple comment giving credit for a great body shot and you hyper-analyze it to death looking for a fault. You must be a hard person to live with.

[Boxing Logic]

Don't think they should throw Loma at Garcia yet. Needs 2 be more defensively responsible

Yeah I mean, skills wise, Lomachenko will school Garcia worse than he did Linares. Linares is faster and longer than Garcia, throws from more difficult angles. Linares left uppercut diagonal through the guard from the blind side is deadly. He caught Loma with it AFTER he dropped Loma with the right hand but Loma took it. That was the same shot that dropped the much bigger Crolla if memory serves. So Loma actually showed a real chin too.

However, you're right about one thing. The one weakness I see in Lomachenko is his desire to do special things. He can circle and run to decisions against these guys like Crawford, Floyd, or Ward, but Loma wants to keep his KO streak alive, he wants to entertain, so he keeps coming forward, and 99% of the time it works because he's so good and so confident in his defense even coming forward, but the weakness I'm talking about is that it's officially a trend, ONCE every fight, a glitch takes place in the matrix and he gets caught. He got caught against Marriaga. I think Walters got one decent shot. Maybe not vs Sosa, so okay not every fight, and not at all vs Rigo.

Okay, but every other fight, Loma walks into a big shot. Against Garcia, it may not take any more than that. Then again, Loma showed a chin tonight, and didn't Rocky Martinez and Salido both make it to the late rounds vs Garcia? Even JuanMa Lopez got up multiple times vs Garcia and JuanMa is chinny. So honestly, I think Loma beats Garcia 4 out of 5, even right now. But yes, Garcia is the one guy with a true chance to beat him, even if it's just 20%, because of the size and huge power. No one else comes close to 20%, because if you can't knock out Loma with one or two punches, or hurt him badly enough to finish him after he gets up, then you won't beat him. No one on earth can "outbox" Lomachenko right now. The only way to beat him is size and power, and at 135-140, Garcia has by far the most of those things, in fact in a P4P sense Garcia has some of the most of those things at 135 of anyone of the sport relative to their respective weight classes.

[Boxing Logic]

Just like in Kovalev vs Ward...

one was a liver shot, one was a ball shot. One reaction was "I just got hit in the liver I cant continue," one reaction was "ref he just hit me low what the ****? That's a point deduction!"

Not even close to the same thing, but, maybe you were joking and you already know lol?

[Boxing Logic]

Newfound respect for Linares, it’s hard to survive a liver shot, no shame in that, boy that Mikey Garcia fight looks even more interesting and Mikey looks better now, if Linares can time Loma, what can Mikey do?

Uh... I mean, I want to see that fight too, but your comparison is kind of false. Linares is longer and faster than Mikey. Yes, Mikey has more power, and better skills, but the range and speed will be different. You can't assume Loma gets hit by the same shot vs Mikey.

[NachoMan]

That's what Loma does to these guys. He doesn't have huge KO power so the first 4-5 rounds, it doesn't look like he's really hurting his opponents with all the clean shots he lands, but in reality he still hits hard enough that even though we can't see them stagger on TV or visibly look hurt, inside it is taking everything out of them. Linares was gasping for air in the corner by the 5th or 6th round, getting doused in water by his corner over and over, looking like he just ran a marathon. Loma's shots to his head and body had already taken everything out of him. That's why even when Linares knocked Loma down, he didn't look exited at all, he looked discouraged because he saw Loma get up immediately and he knew he had very little left to build on that. It's only because of that knockdown and Loma taking the next round off just to be safe and get his legs back that Linares lasted until the 10th. The fact Linares then got hit with a huge, perfectly placed liver shot 5 rounds after he had already had all the energy beaten out of him, you can't expect him to be able to overcome that. Sure he could have tried to continue but he would have been back on the canvas very quickly since he could barely move or breathe at that point.

Yes, that's a pretty solid take of how it went last night and how it usually goes with Lomachenko. I thought Linares looked fatigued as early as the 3rd round.

[Boxing Logic]

difference was kovalev was hit low. look at floyds body language when judah hit him low. bending over in pain crying i guess judah knocked him out?

Exactly. "Floyd quit. Judah is an ATG he made Floyd quit. Floyd will be Judah's slave in the afterlife it's already written in stone."

I mean, the **** some of these racist fans say is unbelievable. All you have to do is apply their words to any other comparable situation, as you did, and you can see just how warped by their biases they truly are.