Lomachenko: Tank and Floyd are businessmen. Not athletes

[daggum]

Dude I don’t have to understand his culture. He is a professional prize fighter. If he wasn’t interested in money he’d have stayed and amateur and fought for whatever the government gave him.

Asking for a designation to avoid a mando is bad for the sport because it allows champions to circumvent opponents that earned a right to fight for the title. I shouldn’t have to explain that.

Mikey left TR because he could see the writing on the wall. He saw Arum was going to favor Loma. He didn’t want to be cotto, where his promoter puts him in a CW title defense to benefit the opponent.

Now Mikey ended up getting the short end anyway with the Spence fight so you can always question his move but I think anyone in Mikey”s position at Top tank would leave.

I like Mikey more than Loma but have Loma rated higher.

The issue here is your holdings Loma up as some kind of deity when he isn’t.

He makes moves that benefit him financially same as all other fighters at the top. The emeritus designation request was the 1st example of this.

Actually, you can argue not fighting Berchelt at 130 was the 1st example. Doesn’t mean he ducked him, just means that fight wasn’t part of top rank’s plan at the time.

pretty sure i remember reading that berchelt had no interest in that fight when top rank reached out to them but if you want to make up ducks go for it.

[Shape up]

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Rya45qoxg

Straight from Top Rank. They can't impose it on Lomachenko if he didn't want it. He must have agreed to it.

Cool, that’s what I wanted, thanks

[Curtis Harper]

They are both (At least May was). Most athletes NOWADAYS who get paid are businessmen as well. The soulless will reach for any straw they can to besmirch May.

[daggum]

They are both (At least May was). Most athletes NOWADAYS who get paid are businessmen as well. The soulless will reach for any straw they can to besmirch May.

ah back to false equivalencies i see. everyone is a businessman! well some are more than others. how do you explain tank fighting unranked fighters for 3 years straight while loma just fought 4 top 5 guys in a row with a 5th coming up next?

[Curtis Harper]

ah back to false equivalencies i see. everyone is a businessman! well some are more than others. how do you explain tank fighting unranked fighters for 3 years straight while loma just fought 4 top 5 guys in a row with a 5th coming up next?

You see things the way you want to see them.

The end

[daggum]

You see things the way you want to see them.

The end

i see the rankings the way i want to see them? what do you call it when a guy headlining cards on major networks doesn't fight 1 opponent for 3 years straight that is ranked in the top 10 by espn, the ring, or tbrb? thats a business decision. their decision is not to take any risks and hope idiots tune in so they can milk them(literally what he said) you falsely tried to equate that to what loma is doing.

if its so easy to beat top 5 fighters over and over like loma is doing why hasn't tank done it once? oh wait tank davis is 25 so its ok

[BaguMka]

Knowing russian language and seeing all Lomas interview and his team I can genually say that he looks for legacy and wants to challenge himself by fighting the best opposition constantly. How you cant like this guy?? He already said many times that he wants to fight the best and retire

[The Big Dunn]

pretty sure i remember reading that berchelt had no interest in that fight when top rank reached out to them but if you want to make up ducks go for it.

Pretty sure you didn’t and are making this up rather than criticize him like you have so many others that didn’t fight a specific opponent.

[The Big Dunn]

Show me something that says they requested it I asked, can you do that?

Every article About the story indicates they asked for it. All of them have been posted.

[GGG Gloveking]

Loma using GGG line