Comments Thread For: Barry Hearn 'Slightly Disappointed' With Lomachenko, Explains

[apollocreed]

I agree with Barry Hearn.

Same here. I’m a fan of Loma, his achievements already are outstanding, but he’s not one of the GOAT’s.
Would the likes of Duran, Chavez, even Moseley and De la Hoya at lightweight go twelve rounds with Campbell? I doubt it.
OK he’s not a true lightweight, but look at his face after fighting Pedraza, who also used to fight at super feather.
He was badly marked up, and Campbell marked him up too.

[Boxing Goat]

Agreed, when Tank vs Loma happens all the Loma fans will jump ship and get on the Gvozdyk or Usyk bandwagon or Tyson Fury bandwagon!

Tank is gonna hurt that man bad and I mean BAD!

Lmao!

Based on what? Beating some cans? Just stop it

[moltres.]

everyone wants loma to ko all his opponants. these dummies have never boxed someone whos training for the fight of there life. that was lukes fight of his life and he probably wont ever be as aroused as he was for this fight. vs arguably p4p number 1 and for the green belt. id retire but its prize fighting.

[PRINCEKOOL]

Total rubbish. Loma is the greatest boxer in the world right now and possibly the best ever. Bob Arum is absolutely right.

He has just struggled with Luke Campbell a fighter who MAY never win a world title 'These are the facts, every single round was competitive'.

Lomachenko has never really produced a master class performance on the level of? Roy Jones vs James Toney, Bernard Hopkins vs Antonio Tarver or Kelly Pavlik, Floyd Mayweather vs Canelo Alvarez etc

But through the media/boxing community, boxing fans are being continually told that Lomachenko is that type of fighter 'Cut from the same cloth as the past greats, he has been compared to Neo from the matrix'

I think people within boxing have gotten carried away, and are suffering from extreme sensationalism 'Lomachenko is just what is hot right now, so in today's culture people are bound to get abit out of hand' Luke Campbell in my opinion has just brought Lomachenko and his supporters back down to sea level.

[-Kev-]

Barry thinks Campbell won by a landslide. That's really all that anyone needs to know about this interview.

Loma is in same situation Floyd found himself in. You outclass so many fighters that people expect you to make it look effortless every time, against everyone.

Barry Hearn said Campbell lost by 4-5 rounds. He didn’t say Campbell won by landslide in this interview.

[PRINCEKOOL]

He's just doing it because he's a competing promoter, what's your excuse?

I don't like making excuses, but I have come to this conclusion via 'Observing Lomachenko's fights' and being unaffected by large sections of the boxing community, who most likely line up to buy the new iPhone every-time a new one is released 'Like lemmings'.

'It is clear to me that people are suffering from sensationalism when it comes to Lomachenko, he is just a fighter who is hot right now' Which is going to have a effect on Lemmings.

People use the EXCUSE of him being out weighed by his opponents, because they know he is not good enough 'Nobody was making these excuses for Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao' who where routinely fighting opponents who out weighed them by 10-20+ pounds on the night of the fight.

[peplz]

No one can beat Lomachenko. He's the best boxer I've ever witnessed. And he's not ashamed to fight a little bit dirty. And even some of the dirty things he does, like taking his opponents back, take extreme dexterity and boxing IQ to do. This is what can be achieved when a person dedicates there entire life to one purpose.

[Clubber Pac]

I have been saying this for weeks, and get crushed for it.

Good? Heck yes, Great? Naw, at a minimum the jury is still out, not until he moves up in weight to 140, 147 like the true all time greats.

[Redd Foxx]

Barry Hearn said Campbell lost by 4-5 rounds. He didn’t say Campbell won by landslide in this interview.

I was wondering what you were talking about because I wasn't the only one who saw it but it looks like the article was updated so that quote was probably changed.

[richardt]

Let him complete his career before we decide if or where he belongs in the pantheon of time.