Three-weight kingpin Vasiliy “Loma” Lomachenko (15-2, 11 KOs) returns to Madison Square Garden on Saturday, December 11 for a 12-round lightweight showdown against former world champion Richard “RC” Commey (30-3, 27 KOs). Lomachenko-Commey marks boxing’s return to the “Big Room” at Madison Square Garden for the first time in nearly two years.
In the 10-round co-feature, undefeated heavyweight sensation Jared “The Real Big Baby” Anderson (10-0, 10 KOs) will battle Oleksandr Teslenko (17-1, 13 KOs). Also junior middleweight standout Xander Zayas (11-0, 8 KOs) and middleweight prospect Nico Ali Walsh
(2-0, 2 KOs), grandson of Muhammad Ali, will see action.
Tickets starting at $56 go on sale, Tuesday, Nov. 2 at 12 p.m. ET and can be purchased by visiting Ticketmaster.com or MSG.com.
Easy KO for Loma. I see Loma delivering a mean right hook to the jaw for a KO victory.
Nice card.
Loma will do a number on Commey. Then Beat Lopez, after Lopez decimates George Kambosos Jr.
I predict that Kambosos will be on the canvas in less than 3 rounds. Easy work for Lopez.
Speaketh … F.J.B.
Fredrick J. Brandon III.
Nico Ali Walsh needs to work on his defense. Or Walsh will be washed up, and fast. Truth be told, Nico’s 1st cousin (Curtis Muhammad Conway Jr.) is a better talent, but Laila will not allow her son to box or play football.
Laila is following the Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger school of parenting, which is very fucked up. Look at her son Chris. Until AW-NOLD took over, Chris was a fat fucking mess. Now, Chris looks great.
Curtis Jr needs to take his soft pudgy ass into the gym, and beat up on some opponents. Show the gifts God gave him. His dad was a great football player, and his mom & pop pop were awesome boxers.
Come on, Laila. Stop making your boy soft. You are not doing him any favors.
Speaketh … F.J.B.
Fredrick J. Brandon III.
FJB, dude! Be nice.
Really a nice card ; hope that Loma will get a rematch against Lopez and avenge his loss. Maybe i’m wrong but i truly think that Loma wasn’t on his A game against Lopez when they fought. Lopez is a very powerfull and talented fighter but Loma is an all time great.. We’ll see..
Loma was hurt so it wasn’t his A game but Lopez power made him uncomfortable as well in that fight
Very convenient the Boxing fans have all types excuses and understanding for why Loma lost. Im thinking most of the times a fighter lost was because they werent on their A game. We know most fighters aren’t 100% when stepping into the ring and that includes Lopez, that night, with fractures in his foot.
Loma was a great amateur boxer, was never p4p best and cant be an all-time great if he’s willing to hide behind the Franchise (Protect me from the big black boogeyman) Title.
His only can give excuses for who Loma lost, but notice they don’t give reasons why they think he won. He’s won all his wins by by being active. While a slow starter, against Lopez, he through a record-low. That last round proved that he can’t hang with trading punches with Lopez. He was feeling those punches hence why he backed away for most of the round. Lopez fought like a champ, Loma fought to appear like he was still in the fight but all the body shots he took wore him down.
Lomachenko lost too many of the early rounds against Teofimo to come back and try to win the fight on points.
I don’t think he will be able to “avenge” his loss even if they ever fight again. Lopez figured him out in their first fight. When they finally traded punches, Lopez did better. What won’t work for Lopez if he becomes passive when Loma starts to attack. The key to beating Loma is to punch with him while keeping your d tight. Lopez left hook and that sharp fast right will have Loma reluctant to keep a consistent onslaught.
It’ll be interesting to see what they do with Ali-Walsh in the short term. He had such a glaring weakness in his last fight, do you basically give him an Xmas gift and try to erase it from memory or do you challenge him by putting him in with an opponent with a decent right hand?
@Lucie Ali Walsh is only 21 years old and a work in progress. I’m guessing they’ll take it about as slow as possible with him. I noticed that Evan Holyfield was on the same card in Nico’s first two fights. They are a few pounds away from each other in weight. Probably a promoter somewhere looking at a Holyfield-Ali Walsh fight down the road I’m sure.
Oh I’m sure they’ll take it slow with him, there’s no reason not to. But I’m also wondering how eager they are to show that he’s improved because after his last fight, it was what everyone was talking about – his inability to get out of the way of that right hand. “Holyfield’s son vs Ali’s grandson” sounds like some strange, barbershop hypothetical fight lol. If it turns out that they both can actually fight, one day someone, probably someone named Bob will gladly make that fight.
LoL Yes, somebody named Bob made “The King of the 4 rounders”, Butterbean a thing at one time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he was looking at Ali Walsh-Holyfield. They’ll probably drop the “Walsh” from his name eventually for marketing purposes.
As far as Nico getting hit flush with right hands, I’ve seen many fighters over the years with defensive issues who never seem to get that problem fixed. He’s young, and there’s time, but can you think of many boxers who couldn’t get out of the way of punches early on in their careers who eventually became proficient in that area? I’m sure there are some, but I can’t think of any off the top of my head. If the instinct to get out of the way of punches isn’t there by the time a lot of these fighters turn pro, that problem seems to be career-long to some degree in a lot of cases. Not saying it can’t be fixed, but that problem won’t be going away immediately for Walsh. I doubt they will look to test him too much in his next few fights.
That’s a really good one, trying to come up with someone who became a noticeably better defensive fighter in their career. Maybe Pacquiao?? He was never Pernell Whitaker, but the welterweight Pacquiao was definitely more aware of not getting hit than the flyweight (crazy to think that man fought world class at 112 and then ended up fighting Clottey and Margarito, two of the biggest welterweights ever).
If Ali-Walsh can’t tighten that up, at least a little, then I wouldn’t be surprised if he lost a fight like next year. If I recall correctly, Andre Ward was calling his last fight and said he might actually lose THAT one.
I didn’t see a ton of Pacquiao’s fights at 112, so I’m not certain how much of a difference there was. I remember McGirt trying to get Gatti to box more to avoid punishment. I suppose it worked to some degree because he wasn’t always right in front of the other guy, but he seemed equally hittable when he was within range. They are trying the same with Jared Hurd I believe. Defensive skills seem to be something they either have of they don’t for the most part.
I was actually thinking of Gatti. The thing with him was that he could actually box, even before McGirt, in the first Patterson fight, but he couldn’t stop brawling. As soon as that started, he became wide open. And then I thought about Hurd, Diego Corrales, Paul Williams and Michael Grant, all fighters who had at least decent careers, world champions all of them except Grant, but they had defensive problems when they were young and it lasted throughout their careers. Like you said, at least for the most part, when it comes to defense, you either got it or you don’t.
Anderson’s opponent, Oleksandr Teslenko was KO’d by 13-6, 38 year old Shawndell Terell Winters two fights ago. This looks like a certain KO win for Anderson.
A 38 year old who’d spent the majority of his career hopping back and forth between heavy and cruiser.
Good catch. Didn’t even notice that he fought at Cruiser. This has early KO written all over it. A good next step for Anderson would be Joey Dawejko in a 10 rounder. Joey is quite durable and would make Anderson work at least. I doubt Teslenko sees the 4th round here.
Is being Vaxed a requirement to get into the show?
Nope but proof of vax is required 🙂
I don’t think Loma will get another shot at Lopez. Teofimo is not long for 135 lbs. and Loma probably is not going to 140.
Loma, the greatest 15-2 fighter of all time.
Yeah it’s a deceiving record. If you’d never seen him fight you might think he was a puncher with a good chin who could be outboxed.
So, Muhammad Ali’s grandson is Caucasian?
His father (Walsh) is white.
I’m probably the lone wolf here, but with the exception of his fight with Lopez, I’m never all that excited about a Lomachenko fight. Very good fighter for sure, but he’s not a guy who will keep me on the edge of my seat. Even worse when the ESPN crew calls his fights, trying to convince the audience that he’s Sugar Ray Robinson on steroids. I’d rather watch a guy like Babic, who I don’t think will go very far in the sport….certainly not as far as Loma….but he’s more crown pleasing.
loma seriously needs to stop picking up leftovers and fight the guy that whooped him. this is becomng pathetic. the older more decorated champing chasing the kid’s leftovers.
Lopez won’t give him a rematch. Though Lopez clearly won, Lomo was figuring him out in the second 1/2 of the fight. Next fight will be much different.
please somebody hit big baby , he is hard to watch.
Why is he fighting a guy that Lopez knocked out in the second round? Commey can punch but he’s not great with twitchy fighters.
i would rather watch loma fight lopez again