Is there a way you can hate Lomachenko without being biased?

[Zaroku]

He seems like a fighter you can't hate. Fights well, doesn't talk ****, and fights for legacy.

Somebody give me a legitimate reason for not liking him.

Jealousy... but it’s not a good reason... he fights like I wish I could... I’m glad Siri retired, once Loma found his groove, within like 8/9 fights... Orlando would be whipped like the red headed step child pb32.... even Slobberts won’t give him a reach around... butler would pound his culo, then shoot a lil magnum load bukkake style, furikake....

Shalom... jhonny sands his best..

[Vegemil]

126 to 135. That also includes 130.

Lomachenko has never had a problem moving in on anyone who has a longer reach than him despite his short reach. And it's not like its 7 inches on one arm.

He uses his rhythm, feints, and movement to accomplish this which I think floyd would have a problem with.

I can easily see the fight going like this. Floyd waits to counter. Loma throws something. Floyd counters but loma counters that counter because he didnt commit and knew floyd would counter.

Lomachenko does that the whole fight every single round. That's why dudes quit. Now, they arent on par with floyd obviously but its gonna be frustrating no matter what.

Plus, most the guys floyd have fought dont move well at all. Loma would follow floyd everywhere and consistently win with his lead foot and step around him. He also showed against rigo the right way to "walk floyd down". When floyd is cornered he either philly shells or ducks and pivots. When he ducks and pivots stop throwing punches and walk up on him and lean on him. When he philly shells, throw the left straight, step around.

Floyd doesnt have KO power at all. His punching power imo is on par with Lomachenko and not much better if any at all. Linares is a bigger puncher than floyd.

Yeah hes bigger but probably not much bigger than someone like Linares or mikey Garcia.

To think it would be a cake walk for floyd is a huge mistake. I give lomachenko the nod, but I wouldn't be naive enough to say it would be easy.

Floyd is the king of adjustments but I dont know what kinds of adjustments he's gonna make? Linares literally trained an entire year and took matches against southpaws to train to be lomachenko and for dominated in ny score card 6-3 before the KO.

Floyd didn’t shell early in his career. He was a devastating boxer puncher with great angles, defense, and incredible handspeed. Floyd back in the day really did make it look easy and was very close to a complete fighter. I don’t see Lomachenko being able to bully him the way he could anybody else in the game today.

[Raonic]

He's not black so he's obviously going to get hate.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

I don't know, man. Loma's a credit to boxing in just about every way. I think his fans outnumber his haters without question.

[The plunger man]

Yes. If i'm not really a fan of a fighter, his fans can influence how i feel about him. I'm sure it influences everyone if they're being honest.

no Robbie not true... if a fighter is hyped by fans it don't influence me to like him as well , for example Ryan Garcia never seen him fight up till his last fight and watched him and still considered him ****.
You become a fan of a boxer by watching him fight not by hear say.
I watched lomachencko the 1 time and thought he was really skilful but pitied patted his punches and showed no conviction when throwing shots.
Now I see one of the most skilled fighters in history perform, he is that good it's scary

[BoxingIsGreat]

Not at all. When you keep hearing ridiculous claims of how good a fighter is and you don't agree with, it doesn't take long before you start disliking the fans and the fighter.

I totally agree with your opinions in this thread. That's EXACTLY how it is for me with GGG and Loma (Loma used to be one of my favorites).

[Tony Trick-Pony]

no Robbie not true... if a fighter is hyped by fans it don't influence me to like him as well , for example Ryan Garcia never seen him fight up till his last fight and watched him and still considered him ****.
You become a fan of a boxer by watching him fight not by hear say.
I watched lomachencko the 1 time and thought he was really skilful but pitied patted his punches and showed no conviction when throwing shots.
Now I see one of the most skilled fighters in history perform, he is that good it's scary

I agree, man.

Loma can fight a can or a champion. You're getting a great show either way.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Her's the truth. Very few fighters are hateable. It's their fans and sometimes their managers that make people hate a fighter. Loma is a great talent who is exciting and who looks for challenges, there is very little to dislike about him.

But his fans... Oh man, his fans think he's an all time great after going 11-1 in his first 12 pro fights. He's not an all time great yet, and although he started late, he started fighting good guys right away so he doesn't have to get to 35 or 40 fights to start being talked about as great. But give him 25 fights and then talk about it.

I doubt that he'll ever have 25 fights. I get the hype train bs but isn't that true with every fighter? After every fight on here, the same night, fools are arguing about him being the baddest thing ever. I mean, you know it's wrong, but I don't kill a buzz for somebody else. After a week or so though, yeah, reality needs to set in a bit. Ha. I don't think Loma is hyped anymore than Spence or TC to be honest. Spence was being called some sort of monest wrecking machine before he even fought Brook. I like him and I don't care, but Loma's not the only guy being hyped on here.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

All great fighters have haters because they beat up on their guy that they like.

The Axe Man and Rigo crowd are never going to like Loma. There are exceptions but most will hate him from here on out.

I never liked Pac until he beat DLH. I recognized that he was just that good. He grew on me. Doesn't happen a lot though. If I start out not liking a fighter, I usually don't change but you never know.

[RomanReigns]

He is a great fighter.