How will Lomachenko's career will be remembered after he retires.

[Malvado]

Might be wrong, but I am thinking Vasily Lomachenko's is nearing it's end.

He is one of the best amateur boxers holding a record of 391 wins with 1 loss, having avenged his loss to Albert Selimov twice. From the fighters that went to be professionals, he beaten Abner Cotto, Andrew Selby, Felix Verdejo, Oscar Valdez, Robson Conceicao, and Jose Ramirez. He became a two time golden Olympian during his extensive amateur career.



He is a natural featherweight that climbed two divisions above relatively early on his career, having lost after targeting a gritty former champion in Orlando Salido immediately after his debut. He beat Gary Russell Jr, Roman Martinez, Nicholas Walters, Guillermo Rigondeaux, Anthony Crolla, Jose Pedraza, Jorge Linares, Luke Campbell, Masayoshi Nakatani, Richard Commey and Jamaine Ortiz. He lost to Orlando Salido, Teofimo Lopez and Devin Haney. Where does he stack up in the rankings of the top P4P fighters in the lower divisions.

[Smash]

in before biggest hype job over rated bum stuff

[HeadShots]

lost his prime in the amateurs. turned pro too late.

gifted boxer whose style is more tailored for the amateurs. he didn't have the extra toughness needed in the pros to become great like the other eastern euro greats, Tszyu, GGG, Usyk, etc

[Teetotaler69]

An exciting fighter who took on the best and got don't dirty in at least two of his losses

[BenjaminLinus]

Should have been undisputed after he was robbed blind by Haney.

[Jsmooth9876]

I just wonder what he could have been if he turned pro 4 years earlier and Fought at the lower weights for a longer period of time. Fights with Gamboa, Mikey and even Juan Ma would have been huge. He wasted some of his best years not turning pro earlier. All 3 of his losses were close fights, he's never been knocked out or dominated in the ring. These people who call him a fraud are the same people who thought Adrien Broner was the next Floyd Mayweather

[MONGOOSE66]

Might be wrong, but I am thinking Vasily Lomachenko's is nearing it's end.

He is one of the best amateur boxers holding a record of 391 wins with 1 loss, having avenged his loss to Albert Selimov twice. From the fighters that went to be professionals, he beaten Abner Cotto, Andrew Selby, Felix Verdejo, Oscar Valdez, Robson Conceicao, and Jose Ramirez. He became a two time golden Olympian during his extensive amateur career.



He is a natural featherweight that climbed two divisions above relatively early on his career, having lost after targeting a gritty former champion in Orlando Salido immediately after his debut. He beat Gary Russell Jr, Roman Martinez, Nicholas Walters, Guillermo Rigondeaux, Anthony Crolla, Jose Pedraza, Jorge Linares, Luke Campbell, Masayoshi Nakatani, Richard Commey and Jamaine Ortiz. He lost to Orlando Salido, Teofimo Lopez and Devin Haney. Where does he stack up in the rankings of the top P4P fighters in the lower divisions.

That he pissed away a professional career. Should of started 10 years earlier.

[IronDanHamza]

Great fighter in his prime. Very good resume for such little amount of fights.

Shame he waited so long to turn pro.

[baroidi]

great amateur career, decent pro career

[drablj]

he could have been an atg by now if matchmaking isn't ****** nowadays. all of the fights needed for that were pretty doable except for mikey because of his bad relationship with arum by the time loma - mikey fight was viable.

i wanted loma's career path to be like this at the time:
after beating russell for his first title, fight walters to crown a lineal champion at featherweight. in-house fight, exciting styles, #1 and #2. totally logical fight to me but noooo. they just wasted time.
after beating walters (and we know now he would), fight lineal champion from division bellow which was rigo. rigo wanted it at 124 pounds and then had to accept it at 130 years later when it was meaningless. very bad move by rigo who did nothing for 5 years since that offer and he was old even then.
then loma should have moved up to fight #1 at 130 which was uchiyama (wba super champion). maybe they would have to put fortuna - coralles (wba regular and interim) on the undercard. that was very doable too. if loma won that fight, next are vargas and roman martinez - miguel berchelt winner (wbo mandatory fight) or salido rematch. that would make loma the lineal champion at 130 too.
next would be linares, i agreed with that. mikey fight would then be for the lineal lightweight champion and if they somehow made it and loma won, he would be a bona fide atg. at that moment loma would already be 30, end of the prime at the lower divisions.
the only reason to continue should have been to enter wbss tournament at 140 which was starting at the time. that would give loma an opportunity to become something like top 30 ever. tasting defeat at that tournament would signal that 140 is a bridge too far and loma would then retire.

instead of "my plan" we got a bunch of meaningless fights with a few good ones here and there. i follow boxing to see how talented fighters become hofers and atgs, not because of patriotism, fanboyism or love for promoters/networks.