Comments Thread For: Lomachenko's Weekend Dominance Will Leave a Historic Impression

[richardt]

All this PFP top boxer stuff is incredibly subjective. Easier to just say he is one of the best in the world, like a number of other top fighters, assuming he wins Saturday.

[edgarg]

The best boxer in the world lost to Salido! LMAO

He didn't really "lose to Salido" Even though Salido was a proven champion, Lomachenko actually lost to THE REFEREE......!!

[edgarg]

I still smell an upset this weekend and pick Lopez by tko inside of 9.

Gee Whizz...you must have a rare Super-Smeller....Say can you smell something good for me in the Stock Market,...

[JonDP]

No, he's not, I mainly agree with you about strenght, somehow size (even if Teo is shorter than Cambell, Linares or Pedraza).

He's not faster than Russel Jr or more accurate than Rigo.

Teo has been looking like a good boxer against the Magdalenos of the world.
We don't know how he looks vs another good boxer. I have never seen him vs a boxer.

Teo has been able to land his money punches vs cement footed guys.
Watch the KO of Commey, Richie got lured into a right hand like a noob, guys like Loma won't do that kind of mistake so easely.
Commey dropped his left hand while throwing his right face first with no head movements, that's some UFC MMA/boxing level mistake.

So maybe Teo is that great guy that they say he's, maybe he'll whoop Loma like Loma did Rigo, that's boxing after all, we shall see. But kid's a lot of questions to answer.

I knew somebody was coming back with that. Of course rigo is accurate and Campbell taller, but put all of those combined and that’s something Loma hasn’t seen. Rigo is small and slow, Campbell is big but also slow and not as strong, Russell fast but pillow fisted, so on and so forth. It’s a real challenge for Loma and don’t agree one bit that he’s going to steamroll Lopez.

[BrometheusBob.]

This headline scared the **** out of me. I thought I missed the fight

[edgarg]

no shame in that - no fighter would have taken on Salido - former champ who twice Ko’d undefeated champ JuanMa in his SECOND pro fight!!

Little correction ere..no harm, but Salido was he WBO Featherweight Champ when he fought Lomachenko.

[millcitymauler]

Lopez Señior is so confident his son will beat Lomachenko that he said if his son loses, he will stop coaching. So my question is for the writer of this article "Lyle Fitzsimmons," if your prediction to this fight doesn't become reality, WILL YOU STOP WRITING!! Lyle, you made some bold statements behind your keyboard without facts, only opinions; you will be humiliated as Loma, for being so ignorant!

^^ Well, seems that One Hour Run got put in timeout, and has a brand new handle.

[R-Hand Southpaw]

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I was reluctantly agreeing with you but you make the same points I typically make about Canelo (he struggles against good boxers and it seems he’s set on carefully selecting who he fights despite the obvious skills he clearly has.

But then you compared him to Floyd. No need to get into the merits or de-merits of Floyd. There is just no comparison at all between the two.

I still think that Canelo can be an ATG right if he unified the 168Ibs division. He’s still young and can fight at least 10 more times. I’ll wait before I call him a hype job

Take away your bias and you'll see that they are more alike than different especially in regards to how they managed their career.

The biggest difference is one is a generational talent and the other is not. Guess who is who.

[edgarg]

He also fought a very seasoned, very rugged, cheater of a world titlist in his 2nd pro fight. (never been done before)

Well maybe the cheater part wasn't done, but Peter Rademacher, the Olympic heavyweight champ of 1956, fought his first professional fight Against Floyd Patterson in 1957, for the Heavyweight Championship. He KD Patterson in rd 2 but Patterson KD him about 5-6 times before a KO in rd 7.

Rademacher was about 3 " taller, 30 lbs heavier and had a 7-8 inch reach advantage.... Didn't help.

[edgarg]

Tyson Fury, Canelo, Crawford, Golovkin, Bieterbiev, Gervonta Davis, Lopez, Spence, Usyk, Wilder (not technically, Obviously) Joshua, probably a few more but I can't be bothered to look it up. I'll change my mind if he beats Lopez and put him into the top 5.

I've got £300 on Lopez winning at 3-1, so I have some confidence in it happening. I think Linares showed weaknesses in Loma's game, they were neck and and neck for skill, and Linares is only a moderate puncher and he completely flattened Loma.

There's a lot in what you say, but not exactly accurate. He was fighting the lightweight champ, coming straight from the 130 lb division, who'd won titles in 3 divisions and had over half-a dozen defences. They may have been "neck-and-neck" -according to the judges-, but in the ring, Lomachenko showed far greater skill, all round..

He had to get to a much larger, heavier, longer reach champion. Jorge Linares had over a 70% KO average, not a "moderate" puncher by ANY standards. Another thing. Linares didn't "flatten" Lomachenko, he knocked him down onto the seat of his pants, and he got up immediately, more surprised than hurt.

So, in the interests of accuracy, I don't think you're being quite fair to the actual facts.
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