Really? Didn't heard that Loma was actually making some excuse on why he lost that fight, I respect Loma because of what he is and he is viewed as big brother in lightweight division but he should know to give credits too because Lopez did good from that fight. He may have injury that time or not, Lopez still won the fight and that can't be changed no matter what the excuse is.
Indeed, the impact will remain the same. He wins that fight and the memories will be there. No need for any excuses, they are just all pro and continue to move forward and chase for another opportunities in proving their skills and become a champion again. There's always room for improvement and with proper trainings and good promoters, this fighter's name will continue to be hype.
Especially Loma, after this fight if he will win, which most expect him to do that.
He will have more money fights to come, and who knows a challenge with the belt holder will be the next target of his camp.
Wow bro, you couldn't have said it better, for me too when a boxer manages to overcome everything he has experienced in his career, including losses and comes back and manages to win, for me it is a deserved victory, also the good work, the effort and the dedication he puts into it is very high, so he has the right to win, especially in boxing, when he trains a lot and with a lot of discipline, for me the boxer undoubtedly wins, for me everything is there, if he prepares well will win, because the body gets used to the stress it is subjected to, the more pressure the harder it is, the more blows are resisted with greater ease, of course not blows that are to areas that are sensitive, because anyone can be knocked out, but hard training helps a lot.
I miss the days when there were also world title fights in the undercards. Legendary Manny Pacquiao for instance used to defend his title while on the undercards like during the Lewis-Tyson fight. Glorious days for boxing. Now it's all about playing safe and money.
Boxers these days are moving like they were the promoters or organizers rather than boxers, they are too attached and more interested to know the money business instead of focusing in making their own legacy to be known in the industry just like the good old days. Probably the reason why almost all known boxers in the industry had built their own promotional company after their professional years.
I guess the boxers really wanted to know how much they are making and probably wanted to know if their promoters are really paying them for how much they worth.
We all know that in the past, boxers like Floyd decided to be their own manager and challenge Bob Arum that time because he wanted more. And so he is partly to blame for boxers now becoming businessman and wanted to know the business side of boxing, instead of just focusing on the fight itself.
We can understand that boxers nowadays would like to level up on the earnings of the promoter, they seemed to think that they are the one investing money to make the right happen, I'd say it's a wrong attitude, that's being greedy, but then, I could be wrong though, just stating my personal opinion.
But it doesn't mean that they are greedy any way, as I have said, you need to know not just how much money go are getting, but the overall value of your fight based on who is your dance partner. Maybe there will be fights that you wonder why you get less money as compare to lets say facing fighter A, something like that and hope you get my point. It's not greedy per definition, yes maybe it's going to be complicated for them, but if they see themselves as businessnman then nothing is wrong with that I would say.
I would also like to see those moments of glory like when they say that Pacquiao used to defend, now we see very different things, we also see a lot of publicity, marketing that has a lot of hierarchy with respect to what they can do, and this is undoubtedly aimed at what what we call the great business model that is generated, we have seen many fights and we know that many are given by interests of the boxing federation, and that obviously there is associated money and the boxers are also interested in this money, otherwise we will what Mayweather is doing right now, he's in the boxing business despite.