Comments Thread For: Lomachenko-Crolla Purse Bid Rescheduled For February 13

[just the facts]

He's not saying that. Reread his post. He is very simply and obviously stating that Loma has few options at Lightweight. So, if Loma aims to keep his belts, he will fight the guys who are ranked at Lightweight. He NEVER says Loma/Crolla is a good fight. Reread it.

Re-read this, Loma/Crolla is a crap fight and a horrible mismatch. Surely a fighter in everyone's top 3 p4p has another option elsewhere.

[chrisJS]

Re-read this, Loma/Crolla is a crap fight and a horrible mismatch. Surely a fighter in everyone's top 3 p4p has another option elsewhere.

It’s a **** fight but if you want to be undisputed and especially with politics divides like today you’re gonna get duds.

Rocky Fielding was worse than Crolla by far. Benavidez isn’t as good either and that was a voluntary. Spence’s last mandatory was one of the worst ever.

[just the facts]

It’s a **** fight but if you want to be undisputed and especially with politics divides like today you’re gonna get duds.

Rocky Fielding was worse than Crolla by far. Benavidez isn’t as good either and that was a voluntary. Spence’s last mandatory was one of the worst ever.

Yes those fights turned out to be mismatches but with Fielding, you could at least say there was the higher weight angle and with Benevides he was fairly unknown so at least there was the angle of not knowing. Corolla is a proven no hoper. Rematching Pedraza makes more sense.

[MJ406]

Mandatory>one sided mismatch

. Corolla is a proven no hoper. Rematching Pedraza makes more sense.

Crolla might be a no hoper, but if Loma HAS to fight him (and can't get an exception by WBA) to keep his belt, he should at least consider fighting Crolla plus Commey still has to be medically cleared first.

Because unifying titles (Loma holds the WBA & WBO currently) IBF next? Kind of defeats the purpose if he gets stripped of WBA, while trying to add more belts.

On that note - in what world would rematching Pedraza make sense? You can't knock a Loma-Crolla fight - then suggest Loma rematch Pedraza ... here's Loma's thoughts on that (Pedraza rematch)

“Rematch?! For what? For who?

“Why [was he] not prepared for this fight? Why [was he] not doing [whatever he would do in rematch] for this fight? It’s not too close fight [to warrant a rematch]. For me, not interesting.”

[BoxingIsGreat]

well check the rankings. mikey is fighting spence so he's out. next is commey who is actually signed to fight loma for a fight on april 12. so if hes not injured thats the fight that will happen since its already signed. next is robert easter who just lost to mikey and should have lost to fortuna so 2 losses in a row. then its crolla. then luke campbell. then pedraza. what fight do you want? devin haney who you know isnt ready and wont fight him? is this fantasy ducking? he's literally signed to fight the #2 guy and his mandatory is the #4 guy. omg what bum fights. all hail tank davis

True words!

[P4P Forever]

Alvarez was mandatory, but he stepped aside because Yvon Michel was able to get him commensurate fights for good pay to ride the time; no doubt that Yvon Michel hoped to build Stevenson and Alvarez up so much that when they did fight everyone would end up being paid handsomely.

What is Bob Arum going to offer Hearn or Crolla to get them to wait for their shot next? I'll wait.

The fights that interest you don't mean **** when there are enforceable obligations in the way.

Alverez was the mandatory 4 times. He took step aside money and other fights during that time while maintaining that position. The gamble on Alverez part is if he loses along the way he loses his mandatory.

Bobs gonna simply pay them to step aside, been going down for years. Sound reasonable. Crolla can then choses to fight or sit on the shelf until the next mandatory comes available. No guarantee he will get Loma after that. If he is still the Mandatory he will then get a crack at the title regardless of Who has the title or if it becomes vacant.

[Jsmooth9876]

Garbage fight but Lomachenko should go to the UK for this one and make some good money because those Brits will fill the house to see their guy get beat up.

Boxing is a joke though, hows this guy the number one option again for a title fight. The Commey fight will be a scrap because that kid comes to fight. He wont win but he will bring everything hes got.

[P4P Forever]

Garbage fight but Lomachenko should go to the UK for this one and make some good money because those Brits will fill the house to see their guy get beat up.

Boxing is a joke though, hows this guy the number one option again for a title fight. The Commey fight will be a scrap because that kid comes to fight. He wont win but he will bring everything hes got.

I agree with you. If the bid gos off and Bob wins fights probably going to happen here logistics if nothing else.
If Eddie wins I can see over seas. Have a feeling fight is not going to happen. Only upside is Loma keeps WBA belt.

[Scipio2009]

Alverez was the mandatory 4 times. He took step aside money and other fights during that time while maintaining that position. The gamble on Alverez part is if he loses along the way he loses his mandatory.

Bobs gonna simply pay them to step aside, been going down for years. Sound reasonable. Crolla can then choses to fight or sit on the shelf until the next mandatory comes available. No guarantee he will get Loma after that. If he is still the Mandatory he will then get a crack at the title regardless of Who has the title or if it becomes vacant.

Crolla needs to have a fight to step-aside for, and Hearn and Arum are on competing platforms, in the US and UK.

There's literally no incentive for Crolla to step aside here, lol. Unless "Million Dolla" is going to get a literal million dollars to fight someone like Beltran the UK, it makes no sense for Crolla/Hearn to give

[P4P Forever]

Crolla needs to have a fight to step-aside for, and Hearn and Arum are on competing platforms, in the US and UK.

There's literally no incentive for Crolla to step aside here, lol. Unless "Million Dolla" is going to get a literal million dollars to fight someone like Beltran the UK, it makes no sense for Crolla/Hearn to give

Hate to say it your probably right.