Comments Thread For: Vasyl Lomachenko Punishes and Stops Jason Sosa

[Combat Talk Radio]

...Salido will beat his ass again.

You know, I finally got around to watching this.

I like Loma, I do. He's fan friendly, he responds on Twitter, etc. He's a very good boxer, probably one of the best out there right now.

What I don't like is that he does the same exact thing in every fight - a light flurry to the head to get them to cover up upstairs, then haymakers to the body. Every blue moon, a straight left or a straight right off a counter.

I think it was Manny Steward that once said to just keep attacking the arms, and eventually they'll drop. Then go after the body, because it doesn't move like the head does.

A fighter who is good at that beats Loma inside of 6 rounds. I just don't know a fighter who would be good at that.

[Shadoww702]

I really dont give a ****, Salido can whoop his ass again for all I care. I appreciate the skills and thats it.

My bad nothing wrong with that. And I can't really blame Loma for who Bob Arum picked for him to fight. I also don't think the other fighters ducked him. Loma has no right to worry about what other fighters want. Hell he's making close to a $1,000,000 a fight. I'm a pretty sure Bob Arum didn't even offer close to that.

If Lomachenko TRULY wanted the fight with Salido he could of offered $300,000 extra to Salido.



“Bob Arum said take it or leave it to the purse he was offering. Well, we’ll leave it,” Salido manager Sean Gibbons said. “It’s a … insult.”

Gibbons is irked that Salido is being offered less than what former World Boxing Organization super-featherweight champion Rocky Martinez was paid (around $525,000) to lose his belt to Lomachenko on June 11 at Madison Square Garden.

Salido-Vargas had a peak HBO audience of 954,000 and nearly sold out StubHub, while Lomachenko-Martinez peaked at 613,000 without competing against a UFC pay-per-view.

Lomachenko manager, Egis Klimas, told The Times, “I got my fighter the minimum he wanted. It’s not my job to pay Salido or find the money for Salido to fight. It’s the promoter’s job. [Team Salido] remembers Lomachenko saying he’d give Nicholas Walters $300,000 of his purse if Walters could beat him. That’s not happening again.”

[The plunger man]

The only way lomachenko loses is he get's over confident and takes one clean hit.....garcia could land that shot and he has massive power but he would be taking a boxing beatdown in the process and lomachenko is so good with his feet and punching from different angles that garcia would be tied in knots and his only hope would be to land something huge and out the blue....lomachenko is something truly special

[iceman1]

Hi-tech Lomachenko, love watching this guy, his ring craft is quality

[angkag]

The only way lomachenko loses is he get's over confident and takes one clean hit.....garcia could land that shot and he has massive power but he would be taking a boxing beatdown in the process and lomachenko is so good with his feet and punching from different angles that garcia would be tied in knots and his only hope would be to land something huge and out the blue....lomachenko is something truly special

One thing I wonder is whether the 'head-charge' is something he would always have difficulty with. Its something Holyfield used effectively against Tyson. Both Salido and Sosa did it, and Loma puts his hand on the top of the head to push it down out of harms way (smart way to avoid head clashes), but it theoretically allows the other guy to get in a 'legal' low blow, else for the fight to get controversial if it happens over and over and the referee doesn't know which way to turn. I would expect Salido to do this even more in a rematch, and everytime he felt Loma's hand on his head he would unleash a hellacious nutshot and immediately complain to the ref that his head was being pushed down.

[respinos]

He is so good that Max Kellerman wants to marry him. I didn't like all those comments like "I rather bake pizza". That was very unrespectful and not professional at all.

[future hendrixx]

maybe losing to salido was blessing in disguise. too many fighters trying to protect undefeated records for marketability. he picked up the L early in his career. I don't see losing again no time soon. biggest threat is mikey.

[slimPickings]

Loma is sheer class. Take it or leave it.
Nitpick if you want. He is sheer class.
One of the most decorated amateurs EVER!
Parlaying that success in the pro ranks and doing that with each fight.
In a "sport" that is full of HYPE JOBS, Loma is the real deal.
Deal with it!!!

[kiaba360]

Loma has added some "craftiness" to his skill-set, something he'll need if he fights Salido again.

[Sweet_Science2]

So if i put a list of fighters who were ATG (not just P4P in a certain time) that lost early in their career will this shut you up ? of course it won't .... because you have no idea about how boxing work and you see that 0 as the most important thing which is why our sport matchmaking is ****.
Spence is P4P on what criteria ?

Okay let's do this to play your game. Let's switch resumes of both fighters and then tell me how this looks. Spence Jr has 13 fights. He loss to Salido, he has 3 good names on his resume. And looked good against the rest of the opponents. Would you crown Spence P4P with that short of resume?? And a loss to a Salido caliber fighter??? We know you wouldn't.

If that's the case Rigo is #1 he dominates all his fights and has about a 75% - 80 % Knock out ratio. Now say Lomachencko had 21 fights and dominated ALL of them against : Algerie, Bundu, and anybody who stepped up to the plate. You would call him P4P. The fact that you are calling Lomo P4P and not Spence or Crawford top dog speaks volumes. When both of those two dominated all of their fights and made it look easy.

Lomo is a great fighter no mistaken. But p4p is premature at this moment we need to see a few more step up fights before we crown the man that title that is all.