Lomachenko is bigger than Pacquiao, Why didn't he take the Pac fight when offered?

[hectari]

What a BS. His biggest idol is Tyson, and the second one is RJJ. That's it.

Then why does he closely emulate pacquiao with the side step and in and out, flurry style, he knows he looked up to manny both are southpaws too.

[StargazerV]

Then why does he closely emulate pacquiao with the side step and in and out, flurry style, he knows he looked up to manny both are southpaws too.

Loma is a converted southpaw, which is not the same as just southpaw. His main hand is in front and it gives own advantages over just southpaw or orthodox stances. Pacquiao is a "normal" southpaw AFAIK.

Side stepping is not smth that was invented by Manny and it has much older roots.

[strykr619]

Yeah, Loma can handle lighter weight power. If Pac lands his patented straight left on Loma. It's lights out.

Not even joking. This is a mismatch and Loma knows it.

It's funny he keeps on saying he won't gain anything for beating an old legend. What he's really trying to say is. I can't really beat that old legend lol

Pac will walk thru Loma punches and murk him and Loma knows this when Pac offered to come down to 135 the "old man talk" started LOL when in reality he got scared that Pac would take him up on his offer.

[Miki Nakayama]

You gotta understand how cutting weight to make a specific decision works. He ain’t gonna fight welterweight walking around 154

Floyd barely walked around 150 and he beat DLH, Maidana and Cotto at 154, Canelo at 152 without cutting weight at all. Pacquiao fought drained versions of DLH and Cotto at 147.

Point is, Floyd fought all of these bigger guys at a severe weight disadvantage because he was far more skilled than them. If you can't beat bigger guys, it just means you don't have enough skills to go pass the weight disadvantage.

[Miki Nakayama]

Loma at 144.5 lb. at the 30 day weigh-in:



Mikey and Loma at walking around weight:



Mikey and Broner at 140 lb. weigh-in:



Broner and Pacquiao at 147 lb. weigh-in:



Loma got dropped at his first fight at 135 by Linares, so he'd have gotten stopped by Pacquiao back then. Even now, Pacquiao would beat him at 140, and stop him at 147.

In this case, Loma's skills are overrated.

[HandsofIron]

Loma's not bigger than Pacquaio, stop trolling.

You're focusing too much on Loma's walk around weight and forgetting about the body frame size, muscle mass, water weight, bone density and all that jazz.

[satiev1]

Most of the time you trash Pac and now you trash Loma for not fighting him at 142 pounds. I don't give a damn about all your walking around weight BS. Pacquiao is a much bigger man.Loma can easily make 126 as he was doing not long ago. Pac might barely make 135. Pac weighed 146.5 for Thurman looking hard as a rock. Loma would be very soft at that weight. Loma would be very soft at that weight. Pac is at least a ten pound bigger man than Loma. Loma is a very small lightweight and should not fight above 135. Pacquiao will never agree to go to 135 today. Pac is great and Loma is great. Just leave them alone and let them be great in their own weight class.

OP dosen't understand the difference between body mass, body fat, and lean muscle mass.

[Nash out]

Lomachenko still has Salido problems. A well past his best Salido at that. People seem to forget that Loma has lost to a decent, but not great fighter in a bout that was brilliantly refereed by Laurence Cole. Some of Salido's body work was outstanding and Loma couldn't handle it.

[pasawayako]

I only want this fight to happen at 135lbs so that loma could have atleast a chance to beat pac.

[tdubb]

Wtf inoue is a 118 pounder, loma fights at 135.

Lol don’t matter he’ll still smoke him.