Comments Thread For: Teofimo Lopez Shocks Lomachenko in Style, Wins Decision To Unify 135

[Boxingfanatic75]

Teofimo got outclassed, wow at those scorecards. Money and youth calls this sport.

What the phuck fight were you watching? Please stop watching and evaluating fights. You embarrass yourself.

[PhilSpektor39]

In Style!?

Lopez clearly beat the odds (which were VERY MUCH against him). But that's not "doing it in style". He deserves a lot of credit for what he accomplished, but it's not like the performance was something stellar. He basically won by being bigger and not committing to the OBVIOUS mistakes everyone expected him to fall victim to. That's not hating him, that's just a healthy perspective. Lomachenko lost it more than Lopez lost it. And do we even need to address the biased scoring. I had it close, so anyone scoring it NARROWLY for Lopez has my respect. But those scorecards reeked of bias.

Lomachenko, for his part, shouldn't be overly criticized. Hubris was his downfall, but who didn't believe Lopez would go bezerker early in the fight and blow his wad? Everyone who knows Boxing was sure he'd get Lopez to take the bait. When Vasiliy finally realized that wouldn't happen it was much too late, Lopez had bagged too many rounds. Also to Lopez's credit, he didn't completely fold when Lomachenko began to pour the pressure on. He even fought like a mature fighter, not settling to exchanges on the inside that would have favored Lomachenko, forcing the ref to break up the action and reset.

Lomachenko probably would have been an even better fighter in the old days with smaller gloves and more rounds but no PEDs. But in the 12 Round Era, Lopez is really fits the mold of an ideal fighter. He's like a better version of Wilder.


I am actually even more confident that Lomachenko wins the rematch. I think he was too ****y about the overall disparity in skill and maturity, and I think he was a little too fearful of Lopez's power. When he turned it on, he got the better of Lopez. If we had seen more of that earlier, it's likely he would have won the fight - assuming competent judging would have prevailed. It took a loss to get an accurate calibration of Lopez's ability, but now that he has that and the motivation to avenge his loss, Loma should pull out the victory in the rematch. Though, honestly, I think Lopez hightails it to Jr. Welterweight before that can happen.

[Noelanthony]

I agree you 101%. Lomachenko had his second robbed fight after Orlando Salido. I suspected that because Julie Lederman.

My opinion is the same of your comment. Lomachenko win at least 7 rounds. At least a draw, but in my eyes Lopez didn’t win that fight.

I wanted Loma to win but you are mad. He lost end of story and the 12th round sealed it

[Satir]

not only the scorecards but the ref was terrible too, what the *** for are you stopping the fight in the last 10 sec of the fight, looks like the robbery was staged and the ref was proteting Lopez

[richardt]

Loma showed a good chin and defense and late stamina. Lopez however showed a perfect execution of tight boxing skills. People should not have said that Lopez didn't have a boxing IQ. I'm not sure where people got that idea at all. Loma is not the only act in town. Lots of great fights with Haney, Davis, Garcia if Lopez stays at 135. Canelo and Crawford seem to own the top spots in my opinion.

[rob g]

Reminded me of Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermaine Taylor

[Rare_Pure]

I noticed that everyone who got drunk saw Loma win, I had myself a cup of coffee during the fight and had the first 7 rounds for López, 8-11 Loma, and a clear 12th for López. 116-112 for the new undisputed champion!

[dondan]

SLOWMACHENKO needs to go back down to 130 or 126. He's too slow @135.

I want to see Lopez vs Pac @140. Let the legend passing the torch to the new generation.

[kidbazooka]

Lomachenko lost clearly. Even when he tried to push it in the 12 round, he still couldn’t do anything. Lopez didn’t back down. Cong**** to him. Vasil became too arrogant and when you become arrogant, life humbles you.

Yup dude is very arrogant yet funny how ppl here love him, Fury usyk for there arrogant annoying personalities yet they hate real humble guys like canelo and pac

Hmmmm
Wonder why

[Bronx2245]

floyd literally fought pac for 12 rounds the same way loma fought lopez the first 6. it would have been a schooling and master class if lomas name was floyd and you know it you are so biased. pac landed the much better punches in that fight and yet you still had floyd winning or even schooling pac somehow even though that logically makes no sense.

Floyd didn't lose 5 straight rounds to Pacquiao! Loma was supposed to treat this young 23 year old kid, with 15 fights, like Floyd treated Canelo! Loma drops way down! Canelo and Crawford are now 1a & 1b P4P! Loma is now behind GGG!