Official: HBO Boxing- Vasyl Lomachenko vs Jason Sosa RBR Thread

[bigjavi973]

Saturday April 8, 2017
MGM National Harbor
Oxon Hill, Maryland, USA
Commission: Maryland State Athletic Commission
Promoter: Bob Arum (Top Rank), J Russell Peltz (Peltz Boxing Promotions, Inc.)
Television: USA HBO, Panama RPC Channel 4

WBO World Super Featherweight Championship

Vasyl "Hi-Tech" Lomachenko

Age: 29
Weight: super featherweight
Height: 5'6"
Reach: 65-1/2"
Stance: Southpaw
From: Oxnard, California, USA
by way of
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine
Record: 7W(5KO)-1L

VS

Jason "El Canito" Sosa

Age: 29
Weight: super featherweight
Height: 5'5"
Reach: 67'
Stance: orthodox
From: Camden, New Jersey, USA
Record: 20W(15KO)-1L(1KO)-4D

Plus undercard:

WBO World Cruiserweight Championship-
Oleksandr Usyk 11W-0L VS Michael Hunter 12W-0L

[KEY LOW]

Someone's early.

[gmc_rfc_06]

Looking forward to it.

Will probably be fairly routine for Loma though.

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[Hatesrats]

Besides this showcase fight for Loma... Who else fights on the card?

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[BigZ44]

Sosa is a tough dude, so this could definitely go the distance. But I think he gets worn down and stopped in the mid to late rds. Would be shocked if Sosa won this fight

[HI-TECH Boxing]

I think Sosa will be a tougher fight than Walters. Sosa has nothing to lose and will give it his all.

Usyk has another tricky fight like the Mchunu fight. It's almost a lose-lose situation for Usyk. If he dominates people "expected" it and he won't get credit. If Hunter has his moments, which I expect early on, people are going to over-exaggerate the situation. Even if Usyk did more to win the early rounds expect people to say Hunter won them or something like that.
Usyk is forced to dominate Hunter. Hunter doesn't have great conditioning from what I can tell, so Usyk should start taking over after the third like he did against Mchunu.