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For the most part, Gervonta took the high road on social media in commenting about Lomachenko’s performance last night against the 32-year-old Crolla. The only negative things Davis, 24, had to say about Lomachenko was his choice of opponent. Davis didn’t know who Crolla was, which is precisely what a lot of U.S boxing fans were saying. It obviously didn’t look good going into the fight that Crolla was TWICE beaten by recent Lomachenko victim Jorge Linares in 2017. The guys that have beaten Crolla during his career, Linares, Derry Mathews, Youssef Al Hamidi and Gary Sykes [x 2], are fighters that would likely stand no chance against Lomachenko. You can’t blame Loma and his promoter Arum for last Friday night’s mismatch. That’s the World Boxing Association’s fault for ranking Crolla #1, and letting him fight a soft opponent in Daud Yordan in a WBA lightweight eliminator rather than having him fight someone that would likely weeded him out long before he got a title shot like Teofimo Lopez, Rances Barthelemy, Devin Haney, Robert Easter Jr., Ryan Garcia, Bryan Vasquez, Aik Shakhnazaryan and Felix Verdejo. You can argue that all of those fighters would have beaten Crolla if the WBA had put them in with him for a WBA title eliminator instead of Yordan. |
