Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
Woah woah woah, @TitoFan where's the hate for Gulliermo Rigondeaux or Zhou Shiming? Those guys just tore up the Olympics and ended up getting title shots really quick too....but Loma is the guy you don't respect for going immediately for the titles, why?

I like Lomachenko, I really want him to fight as much as possible because he's an amazing talent and his style is incredible. He should win going away and I hope he does. Loma is an amazing talent.


Same goes for both, especially Shiming, who's all of 9-2 and has already been a (cough) world champion. That's just me. I'm sure there's plenty of fans who don't mind the shortcut treatment. I'll give Loma this, at least he didn't start off his first 30 professional fights fighting cadavers, ala Canelo. I think you have it all wrong. I don't "disrespect" Loma for..... and I quote..... "going immediately for the titles". I'd bet more than a handful of guys, coming off the amateurs, are probably full of themselves enough that they'll take a title fight 1 or 2 fights into their pro careers if you grant it to them. As was said by another poster, it's something that should be earned, not given to you because of all the amateur career buildup/hype. Hell... Loma will probably end up being an ATG before it's all over. But IMO, he shouldn't have been granted a world title fight in his 2nd pro contest.