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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3554059, member: 289"] Lopez was the bigger man and used his jab to keep Loma away from him. Loma was too cautious in the first half of the fight. The announcer said he was "sizing up" his opponent. He found him too big and didn't want to expose himself to Lopez's power. in the fights that made him famous, Loma was a perpetual motion machine and he had three straight opponents quit on their stools because they couldn't keep up the pace. But that was as a featherweight and junior lightweight. Lopez is a full lightweight, perhaps on his way to welterweight and Loma seemed intimidated by his power and speed. Lopez is an underrated boxer and wasn't out of his class in a strategical fight at all. In the second half of the fight, Loma realized he couldn't win a decision and had to take the chance of getting caught coming in to get his flurries going. he almost turned the fight around in the second half, belaboring Lopez with combos. Lopez was supposed to be an explosive puncher but neither fighter was really rocked by any punch. there were no knockdowns. Andre Ward actually had Loma drawing even on his card at one point. On mine he never got closer than two points after the early rounds. Loma had big rounds in the 10th and 11th and it appeared that Lopez was slowing down. But Lopez pulled himself together and dominated the 12th round to close it out. he might have actually had Loma in some trouble at the end. An accidental butt opened a bad cut above Lopez's left eye but there were only 10 seconds left and it didn't matter. I gave Lopez rounds 1, 3-7 and 12. I gave Lopez 2, 8, 10, 11, I had the 9th round eve. That's 116-113 Lopez. Punch stat had Lopez ahead with 183-141 in punches landed and 148-77 in power punches. The actual scoring was weird but had the right winner: 116-112, 119-109 (?!?) and 117-111. I wonder if there is a rematch clause. if Loma wasn't so cautious early, he might have won this. This was only the 16th pro fight for either guy so they aren't going away. But I think Lopez's future might be in the mix at the next level where Bud Crawford, Errol Spence and don't forget Manny Pacquiao live. Size wise, Loma's gone about as far as he can go. [/QUOTE]

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