Lopez won because Loma gave away 6 rounds, too long to start. Where was the KO?

[bluebeam]

But once Loma started putting it on in the second half. he was winning the rounds much more convincingly.

People here riding Teo’s nuts. Sure Teo did a GREAT job, but He won the first half because Loma wasn’t doing much. Loma was the reason Loma lost. Took too long to start.

It’s not as if Teo was beating Loma up. Teo was throwing and hitting a lot of air in the first half. But he won the firat half due to acitivity, not any actual damage done to Loma. Loma turned it up in the 7th and won 5 out of the 6 last rounds.

People saying Loma exposed? You were saying Teo would put Loma to sleep, now he went all 12 and didn’t really wobble Loma at all.

Enjoy the victory, but don’t get carried away now...

Loma didnt do **** for 12 because that fire was coming back at him.

Loma was outboxed in 6 out of 12 rounds by a green champion.

115-113 lopez.

[Marchegiano]

Guess Loma should have won all 12 rounds but I only gave him 6 live.

Interesting how that works.

You're sad enough to argue semantics?

Okay bud, not literally. ****

[jdp28tx]

One more reason not to have your Dad as your head trainer. It was the end of the 5th rd and in the corner Loma's Dad was telling him to be careful and be patient, not to rush anything. There Loma was down 5 rds and going into the 6th and his Dad is telling him to stay patient and not rush anything. Too many times when a fighter's father is the trainer they do not want to take risks and always air on the side of caution. Either they don't have full confidence in their son, which makes sense psychologically for many reasons or they are too concerned for their son's welfare that they do not really want them to take any risks out of fear they might get hurt.

[jdp28tx]

Loma was psyched out before the fight even started that is partially why he was so hesitant to engage. Lopez is a good young fighter, but he is not that good. If Loma was as good as ESPN likes to claim he should of found a way to win and he did not. Eastern European fighters may have all the talent yet they lack that key trait like most Mexican fighters have. The trait of willing to suffer tremendous amounts of pain or go thru hell in order to win. Golovkin and Loma are examples of this. They will only go so far in order to win unlike Mexican fighters and the great African American fighters.

[ramses07]

loma was thinking about that right hand that ko'd commey

u cud see it in his head

he only started to attack when Lopez slowed down in later rounds

[Floyd is TBE]

Loma didn't start slow, he just fought like a coward. You could tell he was scared of Lopez's power, he tried waiting for the kid to slow down before he did anything.

[Vlad_]

I think part of the slow start was ring rust, another part was that Lopez’s potential KO power got to Loma’s head and he was indeed playing it safe.

[joseph5620]

Guess Loma should have won all 12 rounds but I only gave him 6 live.

Interesting how that works.

Too bad Lomachenko didn't actually win 6 rounds. That's you being generous and biased.

Lomachenko clearly lost at least 7 rounds.

[Boxfan7819]

Loma mistake was thinking a 23 year old would gas out.

[boliodogs]

lol Loma and his dad are the dumbest boxing combo if they thought their strategy was to tire a young Lopez out. Lopez wasn't exactly throwing insane combos in the first half of the match, he was throwing jabs and a few body shots. No way a young fighter will tire out at such a slow pace. Loma fans are desperate to find a reason why their fighter put on such a poor performance.

It was a ****** battle plan if that was the plan. Loma lost the first 7 rounds on my scorecard because he threw almost no punches. Maybe he would have still lost those rounds if he had thrown a lot more punches but by throwing so few punches and retreating he had no chance to win those rounds.I had Loma winning rounds 8 9 10 and 11 put but he had already lost 7 rounds. Lopez was pacing himself so trying to have him tire was not going to work. Lopez had enough left to win the last round for a 116 to 112 win on my card. Loma waited 7 round before he started trying to win rounds .