How do you see Loma-Duran at 135 going?

[Sun_Tzu]

I'm gonna go with my first thought upon reading the title. Duran by stoppage late after some really good action.

[RINGG]

Duran too big too strong.

[Cheerios36]

I'm just saying that why bring up the fact that Duran got knocked out by 6'1 Hearn at 154 in a discussion of Duran vs Lomachenko at 135?

If we were talking about Duran vs Charlo, then ok.

And who do you have between Terrance Crawford vs Sugar Ray Robinson?

I was meaning it more that people would call him a bum if they are not perfect, nothing to do with 135. Which I don't like.

Also, this is a tough question, as Loma in his first 135 fight, beat the badass of the division. That's impressive no matter how you slice it. Whereas, Duran had around 7 fights at 135 before fighting for a 135 belt. But then again, Loma is 30 and doesn't have time to mess around with 7 tune up fights.

The best answer for me would be that on any given night, either could win, but Loma needs a lot more on his resume to be in Duran's class or really compare imo.

Sugar Ray would win imo haha.

[Cheerios36]

Duran was the only guy to KO Ernesto Marcel, the first to KO Lampkin and Hector Thompson... you can twist it multiple ways, but I think you're being a little unfair to be focussing on undefeated records. Duran has got some hot names on his record at 135: Buchanan, Kobayashi, ****, he knocked out Jimmy Robertson's teeth...

There is a modern obsession with retaining a fighter's '0', and it doesn't translate well looking back in time. It's whiggish, man, you're judging the past in light of the present. I mean, the same goes both ways too, judging the present in light of the past - it's just different eras, which is why I try not to get too caught up in fantasy match-ups

I agree with you that it's too early to tell with Loma, he's not at ATG-status yet. But focussing on records is not the way to go

Totally agree that the 0 on the resume is wayyy over-hyped. In fact, it really robs boxing of what boxing should be about, the best fighting the best, not protecting their 0.

I was just more pointing out that the 71-1 record is pretty, but you have to look deeper into the record to see if it means anything. Loma beat a guy who was 51-1 and was not close to the class of Linares imo.

[M Bison]

Lomachenko is a better more technical fighter than leonard.

Loma and Leonard are cut from the same cloth imo, both extremely good fighters.

[Lewisstewart1]

Hands of Stone by complete and utter decimation. I actually can’t beleive people are even giving this any thought, if linares could deck Loma imagine what a prime Duran does.

[Wizardsh]

A lot of people on crack on this site, no way does Duran lose to loma, we are talking about a fighter who lost to a fat out of shape salido, Duran is all wrong for loma, loma get eaten alive and *****ted out

[Bigblackted44]

Loma would have to outbox and pray he’s been knocked down by Russell and Linaries who weren’t the power punchers of Duran. I was just fighting Duran at 135 and he would get inside and turn dudes into pizza faces.

Also did y’all forget that the Salido fight happened. Duran is Salido by 5 at least.

[bojangles1987]

We haven't seen Loma fight anyone near good enough to suggest he beats Duran yet. Not seriously.

Just looking at styles, Duran can definitely push Loma around and rip him up inside, and I haven't seen Loma prove he could stop Duran from doing so. Defensively he would frustrate the hell out of Loma, too.

[just the facts]

Lomachenko is a better more technical fighter than leonard.

This is the single most ignorant post I've seen on NSB and that's saying a helluva lot.