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Guys get emotional after a loss, especially if they feel they got robbed. But AJ regained his composure and showed grace in defeat (it's what the judges decided) afterward. "grace in defeat" is obviously not a concept you're familiar with.That's really poor logic. It would make even less sense to have a full-blown meltdown and Team AJ not mention that they felt the decision was controversial.
c'mon dude, we're talking orlando salido here. It didn't matter that he was a world title contender. he was still the same orlando salido who was dominated by gamboa and garcia. besides, salido was considered over the hill by that point. and the promoters were basically touting loma as world championship level pro fighter even before his first pro fight. That was why loma fought Ramirez, a guy with a 25-3 record, and a title contender, in loma's FIRST pro fight. If "pro experience" mattered that much you really think they woulda matched loma with Ramirez in Loma's FIRST pro fight?As for Loma facing a grizzled vet in Salido so early, it's cherry picking for a 1-0 professional to fight a world champion in only his second pro fight? Absurd. Not to mention that if Salido felt that he had Loma's number then he would've given him a rematch. His own manager Sean Gibbons even said that he didn't understand why he didn't take the rematch because the money they asked for was presented to them by Top Rank.
of course not. The promoters and everybody in boxing knows that the eastern european "amateurs" were actually "professionals" because boxing is how they made their living. They were just simply professionals who fought three round bouts in elimination tournaments instead of pros who fought 10 rounders against random dudes. for that reason, the eastern european amateurs were often more experienced and more battle-tested than a lot of top pro fighters. so, for eastern europeans boxers at that level, going from amateur to pro was NOT a big transition.
It was a calculated matchmaking strategy to fight salido in loma's second pro fight. to the eye, it looked like salido was made to order. otherwise, there was no reason to rush loma into a title fight at age 26 if there was doubt he could win. the problem was, they miscalculated. i think of salido the same way i think of guys like emmanuel navarette, emanuel agustus and carlos maussa, fighters who are so awkward and unorthodox, although they look like they have a ton of flaws and should be easy for a classically trained boxer to beat, but those guys have all kinds of weird angles and physicality and rhythm and shit about them that they can be a nightmare for even an experienced pro; ask robson conceicao, isaac dogboe, vivian harris, etc.
That's not what joshua had with usyk. usyk is what floyd would call a "straight up and down, no special effects" kinda guy. the thing is joshua's lack of amateur background ill-prepared him for usyk's movement and left-handed counterpunching. that is something that could have been fixed with more exposure to different styles of fighters during joshua's developmental (amateur) stage.
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