Comments Thread For: Teofimo Lopez Motivated To Expose The Lomachenko "Illusion"

[Bronx2245]

I'm only buying this PPV for you homie! Let's Go! Brooklyn, we need this after Miller failed us! Salute to "Lil' B-Hop!" Stay away from Miller and the tainted cheeseburgers!

[chirorickyp]

The Illusion is that you think he's right in front of you and then you get hit 4 times and not know where the punches came from. Then you hear the count start at the number 4 and you're nauseated while trying to get back on your feet.

[angkag]

Early fight Loma is like a poker player looking for all the tells that signal what the opponent is going to do next.

When Teo decides to throw an uppercut, the likes of Magdeleno find out about it when it lands on their chin. Loma knows Teo will throw the uppercut at the same time as Teo does, so he knows not only where NOT to be when the punch is thrown, but how Teo will be positioned after releasing the punch and how to capitalise on it.

Teo hasn't fought anyone who can even get out of the way yet, let alone someone who will bothget out the way and position to punish you at the same time. Levels.

[Bundt]

Let’s be realistic. Is he promoted by top rank? Expect to see half a decade of bums before the matchmakers fully believe in him.

[Ake-Dawg]

I disagree.

Guys like Loma and Crawford are incredibly confident, but it never grates. They don't have to act like clowns to show everyone how confident they are.

Lopez is so far up his own asshole it isn't even funny - but it also comes across as desperate and obnoxious.

I wonder if he will ever earn that confidence by achievements in the ring? Time will tell I guess.

What exactly is he doing that is "acting like a clown" Post fight celebrations? Speaking confidently about his belief that he beats Loma?

[Ake-Dawg]

Early fight Loma is like a poker player looking for all the tells that signal what the opponent is going to do next.

When Teo decides to throw an uppercut, the likes of Magdeleno find out about it when it lands on their chin. Loma knows Teo will throw the uppercut at the same time as Teo does, so he knows not only where NOT to be when the punch is thrown, but how Teo will be positioned after releasing the punch and how to capitalise on it.

Teo hasn't fought anyone who can even get out of the way yet, let alone someone who will bothget out the way and position to punish you at the same time. Levels.

Maybe he thinks he can land that straight right hand that Linares landed. Or some those punches Pedraza landed, but with more power.

[_Rexy_]

What exactly is he doing that is "acting like a clown" Post fight celebrations? Speaking confidently about his belief that he beats Loma?

standing over a KO'd opponent and mocking him for the cameras is acting like a clown.

[HarvardBlue]

I care about the fight. It's two of the most athletic explosive guys in the sport, definitely the two most at 135. But I agree, the talk is getting old. I like that Teofimo is trying to sell the fight, but repeating bigoted myths about Lomachenko, a fighter who already has a lot of prejudice against him, is crossing the line, like saying Top Rank is protecting Loma, they put together the Crolla fight to push an illusion, it's all fake bull****, etc etc, when Top Rank didn't even want the Crolla fight and it was forced on them by Hearn and the WBA, is just a bad look because Teofimo may not realize this, but there are prejudiced fan-media out there with large audiences who are going to take that quote and use it as "proof" of all their most prejudiced opinions about Loma and Top Rank in general.

[B]It's one thing to sell the fight, it's another to say things that are going to contribute to further prejudice and lies about someone else who does not deserve it.[/B

Man stop it! Lomachenko gets more positive media coverage than any boxer I can remember. He has an entire television network behind him. Show me a Ukrainian television station that covers ANY American fighter the way Lomachenko is covered. This fake victim routine has to stop. Lomachenko gets criticism just like any other fighter. Some of it is deserved and some of not so much. Just like any other fighter. Lopez didn't say anything about Lomachenko you don't hear about practically every fighter at his level.

[Tha Kid]

I want Arum to throw Lopez in with the wolf now just to humble this guy abit.

Loma is no wolf. He keep fighting bums while getting all this praise. Just stop...this dude with this so called amazing footwork got beat by a journeyman and dropped by a straight right. If he didn't spend 20 years in the amateurs then maybe he wouldn't be over 30 years old with less than 20 fights.

[Ake-Dawg]

standing over a KO'd opponent and mocking him for the cameras is acting like a clown.

Then Ali was a clown too I guess. Roy Jones Jr was a clown too then.