Comments Thread For: Arum: Naoya Inoue Says He Wants To Fight Lomachenko

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Vasiliy Lomachenko says that nothing he could achieve in his professional career could compare to winning the first of his two Olympic gold medals. The Ukrainian three-weight world champion has his sights set on unifying all four parts of the world lightweight title and would move a step closer if he adds the vacant WBC title to the WBA and WBO belts he already holds by beating Luke Campbell at the O2 Arena, London, on Saturday.
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[*Makaveli*]

Now that's a fight I'd love to see. I don't think Loma would fancy facing down the monster though.

[1hourRun]

Bumchenko agreed with ESPN's Mark Kriegel that 135 posed too many threats and that Bumchenko wants to drop back to featherweight.

The 'Monster' Naoya Inoue keeps looking up, chasing greatness; Bumchenko is looking to cherry-pick a man that started his career at 108, but Vagisil wont fight a shot Pacquiao at 140.

[hmc87]

Bumchenko agreed with ESPN's Mark Kriegel that 135 posed too many threats and that Bumchenko wants to drop back to featherweight.

The 'Monster' Naoya Inoue keeps looking up, chasing greatness; Bumchenko is looking to cherry-pick a man that started his career at 108, but Vagisil wont fight a shot Pacquiao at 140.

Bumchenko is such a bum that hes beaten the best available competition at 126, 130, and 135. Now after damn near becoming lineal at 135 is thinking of returning to 130. Maybe he'll be lineal there too.

What a bum.

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[Dark night 24]

Wtf what about a Mikey fight? Or Gervonta Davis?

[RetroSpeed05]

Bumchenko agreed with ESPN's Mark Kriegel that 135 posed too many threats and that Bumchenko wants to drop back to featherweight.

The 'Monster' Naoya Inoue keeps looking up, chasing greatness; Bumchenko is looking to cherry-pick a man that started his career at 108, but Vagisil wont fight a shot Pacquiao at 140.

Loma isn't looking for anyone Bob is seeing $$$ thats it. Loma didn't even want to fight Rigo because he said hes too small.

Also we dont know if Loma would go to 126, he didn't for Rigo. And Inoue said in a interview his limit would be 126 anything higher he would be a normal fighter.

[observer]

Never liked weight jumping. To me, in many cases, it's the equivalent of artificially disadvantaging oneself. Why does Pacman need to be fighting at 147? If he was at 135 we could have seen Pacman vs Loma. Whereas at 147 people are saying Pacman shouldn't be fighting Spence because Spence is too big. WTF? Spence is not too big, it's Pacman who is too small.

The whole thing with Mikey Garcia moving up to fight Spence was idiocy too, and we bought it. 'Mikey sees something in Spence', 'win-win for Mikey'. As a result we got a one-sided fight that was not exciting at all.

There are some exceptions, of course, like Pacman stopping ODLH. To me, though, these exceptions are not worth it. I will cut some slack to the CWs who are moving up. Most HWs are out of shape and have no workrate, and the money is a lot better. But in other divisions, fighters should only move up when they can't safely make the weight anymore. And I would be happy if Loma moved back to 130 and even 126. We could then enjoy his genius with no ifs and buts. Without the boring 'X has to fight tall and keep Loma at a distance' repeated every damn time there is a fight coming up!

[Adamsc151]

If Lomachencko and Inouye could meet at a weight that was safe for both of their bodies, that would be one of the most exciting match-ups I could think of. Loma's not a naturally big lad and Inouye's power has carried up freakishly well so far, so it's not totally unfeasible for them to meet in the middle.
The winner of that would undoubtedly be p4p #1 if it did happen, but Loma's sounding like he's a few fights away from retirement lately.

[GhostofDempsey]

Bumchenko agreed with ESPN's Mark Kriegel that 135 posed too many threats and that Bumchenko wants to drop back to featherweight.

The 'Monster' Naoya Inoue keeps looking up, chasing greatness; Bumchenko is looking to cherry-pick a man that started his career at 108, but Vagisil wont fight a shot Pacquiao at 140.

Where did Loma call out Inoue? This is Bob trying to make an in-house fight, and Inoue wanting to challenge himself against a top P4P fighter. If anything, Loma will look to be undisputed at 135 and maybe go to 130 for the right fight (Tank), but no way is he going down to 126 again.

What does coming up from 108 have to do with making good fights? Pac and Floyd came up from that weight, did you fault their opponents as they were moving up in weight?

[kushking]

Never liked weight jumping. To me, in many cases, it's the equivalent of artificially disadvantaging oneself. Why does Pacman need to be fighting at 147? If he was at 135 we could have seen Pacman vs Loma. Whereas at 147 people are saying Pacman shouldn't be fighting Spence because Spence is too big. WTF? Spence is not too big, it's Pacman who is too small.

The whole thing with Mikey Garcia moving up to fight Spence was idiocy too, and we bought it. 'Mikey sees something in Spence', 'win-win for Mikey'. As a result we got a one-sided fight that was not exciting at all.

There are some exceptions, of course, like Pacman stopping ODLH. To me, though, these exceptions are not worth it. I will cut some slack to the CWs who are moving up. Most HWs are out of shape and have no workrate, and the money is a lot better. But in other divisions, fighters should only move up when they can't safely make the weight anymore. And I would be happy if Loma moved back to 130 and even 126. We could then enjoy his genius with no ifs and buts. Without the boring 'X has to fight tall and keep Loma at a distance' repeated every damn time there is a fight coming up!

Loma is not a small lw despite how many times his fans say so it doesn't make it true. He has no business fighting below 130 & never belonged below 130 since turning pro,& he has no business dragging up smaller men to gain an advantage because its a waste of everyone's time considering he is a true 130-135 lber,loma fighting at lower weights is like fmj moving down to 140(lomas actually nelos height). Loma is a averaged size 135 lber & it's no coincidence he looked average vs Linares because as I've said for ages he will be in dogfights vs anyone elite at 135 & up,not because hes smaller rather just because hes not at a advantage by being bigger than his opponent,as he was vs most opponents on his resume,a few of which were coming off lopsided losses or razor thin victories over C levels at lower weights.