u/YouMadBroLma0

The man has been flawless, aside from the Rico fight which he clearly did not take seriously.

First of all his resume is untouchable. Undisputed at CW and HW which has only been done once in the history of the sport. I’m sorry but Breidis, Gassiev, AJ, Fury, just trounces the likes of “Paul Butler”, “Viktor Postol”, “Marlon Tapales”, “Julius Indongo” etc.

Olympic Gold, World Amateur Gold, European Amateur Gold. Never been knocked down in his pro career. Beaten guys who are significantly bigger than him in all his HW fights. WON ALL HIS TITLES ON THE ROAD WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN DONE IN THE HISTORY OF BOXING! Also happens to be a class act who doesn't trash talk his opponents, doesn't go ducking guys, and who is a symbol of hope for his people while their country is being invaded. Usyk is such an all-around awesome human being he almost doesn't seem real. I'm an atheist and I've had to start questioning if there really is a higher power because this ultra-religious dude's life has just been nothing but winning.

People be getting mad like we're doing something wrong when we’re “glazing” the greatness of Usyk. We're glazing apple pie. We're glazing a cold beer on a hot summer day. We're glazing getting a snow day from school or a three day weekend. If there's anyone in the game who should be glazed it's this guy.

135 was Loma's 10th weight class since 16 years old, fighting possibly the top guy in the division besides himself, 6 inch reach disadvantage, and he's scoring KDs with jabs. I think we are so jaded to Lomachenko's spectacular-ness that we are losing perspective.

For example his P4P competition Terence Crawford, fighting at 135 which contrary to Loma's situation is his minimum weight, went 12 rounds with Ricky Burns, who past his best lost to Crolla, but who even at his best was IMO not as good as Campbell.

Andre Ward, the guy criticizing Loma constantly, went 12 rounds and scored no knockdowns vs Alexander Brand, someone nowhere near as good as Loma. And that was a 31 year old Andre Ward in the same weight class, 175, that Ward fought at at 18 years old. Loma dropped a better fighter, Campbell, with a jab in his 7th weight class since the same age.

If you compare those fights, Loma literally did better, seven weight classes higher relative to each's weight at 18 yrs old, vs a better opponent, than Ward did vs a worse opponent. But this is what we call an underwhelming performance from Lomachenko. "Not sure he's P4P #1." We're judging him against himself, against his most insane performances at 130, more than we're actually judging him against other P4P fighters. Compared to anyone but himself, even Loma's underwhelming performances are insane.

Lomachenko made it almost feel normal to not just win every round vs world class competition, but drop them and either stop them or make them quit. It isn't. No fighter from this era, not even P4P #1's, has done that regularly other than Loma at 130. Only prime Pacquiao was doing the "winning rounds" and "dropping/stopping people" parts as good or better than Loma, and that was 10 years ago. We have to put some respek on Loma's name. He's not changing the game, he's changing our standards as boxing fans.