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Tank really damaged pedraza
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...or he's trying to get on Loma's good side for a good payday! Makes me winder if Ward had the same idea since he promotes Stevenson and was grooming him for a bid Loma payday.
Sorry, but it's not a draw and certainly not a win for Loma. 7-5 was my original score, but i watched the fight three times and Loma loses rounds with each view. When things are very one sided like the first half of the fight, people relaxe their criteria to give something to the other guy (i did it round 2 of my first viewing and also for the 7th).
Lopez landed lots of body punches that seem to get forgotten when Loma finally landed a few head shots.
The rematch would be more action packed than the first fight and someone would get dropped. Lopez is a smart cat, what he said about Money Mayweather type $ and having to be Pretty Boy first to earn that type of monry says a lot. Spence and others better be listening to this wisdom being dropped by a 23 y.o.
Sadly no rematch given how much these 2 hate each other (GGG vs Canelo type hate that makes people leave $ on the table).Comment
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Pedraza was hot garage against Loma, so why should his opinion even matter? He barely put up a fight. Sounds like somebody wants a pity payday.Comment
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Lol you obviously don’t know jmm that well dude is the ultimate hater of Latino fighters it’s like he wants to be the only one to be remembered ****ing sad but everyone knows it he hates canelo too but it’s extreme jealousy.
As for the other Ward had it a draw, Shields never said Loma won and Crawford is another hating prick we all know thatComment
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I just don't see how anyone can find more than 5 rounds for Loma.Comment
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Lomachenko's strategy was faulty. OK to size up opponent for first 3 rounds, but not first 6. He gifted so many early rounds to Lopez that you have to say the win was the right result.
Purely and simply, he needed a higher punch output. And that's on Loma's head. Architect of his own downfall.
So I cannot argue with Lopez winning. Nothing I subsequently write overrides that.
Most of the rounds Lopez won were effectively gifted to him. He rarely hit Loma cleanly before the 12th. The rounds he won were mostlly given to him for advancing and hitting Loma's arms. Take the second round, for example, which Andrew Ward scored for Loma, but the judges clearly all gave to Lopez. Both fighters didn't hit each other much. Lopez got a couple of body shots from range at full stretch. Loma hardly threw anything, but he did time Lopez a couple of times and got in some nice clean shots to the head. I don't say either Ward or the judges are wrong -- just a hard round to score.
When it came to the rounds where we actually saw some real fighting, I thought Loma came off the best, with the exception of the 12th. There were a few times in the 10th or 11th (I forget which) that Lopez was having to clinch and hold Loma's gloves because he was getting caight with his gloves down and getting turned and couldn't see what was coming. He also weighed in with a big low blow around this point of the fight. Other side of the coin, Loma's was a bit ****** with his head on a couple of occasions.
Good 12th round for Lopez, which I feel should have swung it in his favour. As it was, the judges had him way ahead by that point.
Judges scored it too wide in favour of Lopez, in my opinion (all of them, but Julie Lederman's was especially egregious), but the result was fair.
I would be inetrested in seeing a rematch, though I doubt it will happen.Comment
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