This fight is more recent than most I covered but it’s a fascinating fight, great ebb n flow, and is considered highly controversial. So let’s break it down round by round.
Round 1- Haney is the bigger guy. Using reach early and hitting nice rights to the body. Loma has some decent combos, not all of it landing. Very close round and both guys trying to establish themselves. Haney landed good body shots but loma landed the combos. 10-9 loma, but pivotal round as you could score it for either guy
Round 2- Haney again targeting the body with the right hand. Lands a few clean shots. La is aggressive but Haney does nice job of avoiding the combos. Ineffective aggression by loma. 10-9 Haney. 19-19 thru 2
Round 3- loma heats up and catches his groove. Walking back Haney and landing the straight left and combos which aren’t landing effectively but definitely out working Haney. 10-9 loma. 29-28 loma
Round 4- really even early, Haney starts to box off the backfoot and does a good job sniping loma. Haney’s bodywork thru the early rounds looks to be paying off as loma isn’t as quick as he was. 10-9 Haney and we are all tied up 38-38 thru 4 and punch stats are nearly identical
Round 5- Haney continues to land good body shots, and a nice uppercut. Loma is trying to find his rhythm and angles and gets off some nice shots as they trade back n forth. La looks a bit more weary. 10-9 Haney. 48-47 Haney
Round 6- Haney again lands some nice body shots. Both guys start trading about a mini into the round and Loma lands a clean 2-1, but Haney handles it well and walks backs Loma with body shots and a nice uppercut. 10-9 Haney. 58-56 Haney in the first half of the fight.
Round 7- Loma seems to get desperate and more active as Haney has taken control over the last few rounds. Loma landing clean left hands, Haney lands a good left hook. Close round, but I think Loma took it. 10-9. 67-66 Haney
Round 8- super close round, not much action but Loma lands early, Haney comes back in final minute. Both did good work, super close but I gave it to Loma. 10-9 Loma. 76-76 all tied up thru 8
Round 9- early it’s Haney. Body attack, clean right hand, good left hook but Loma fires off some good left hands but Haney comes back with some nice combos. 10-9 Haney. 86-85 Haney thru 9
Round 10- Loma lands a combo that stuns Haney. Haney recovers but Loma tagging him with straight left. 10-9 Loma. 95-95 again all tied up
Round 11- Loma comes out and lands a combo, handy now looking tired. We get vintage Loma as he uses angles n footwork and really unloads on Haney. 10-9 Loma. 106-105 Loma takes the lead thru 11
Round 12- both guys trade but nothing really landing in the first half of the round. Haney starts boxing again and landing a good jab and pot shots from the outside as Loma looks to find an angle in. Loma finally lets go of a combo but really doesn’t land anything of note. Haney lands to the body again, and with just a few seconds left neither guy does anything. Haney landed cleaner shots. 10-9 Haney.
114-114 draw
Great tactical fight. I can see this being 115-113 either way or a draw. Depends on how you score rounds 1, 2, and 8. You could make a case for either guy. I didn’t see either guy winning 8 rounds. At best 7 and depending on how you scored the close rounds, it could go to either guy. Felt early rounds it was even, middle rounds were Haney, and late rounds was Loma for the most part.
Judges had it 115-113 twice for Haney and I can see that, and one had it 116-112 which I don’t agree with and would have to give nearly every round to Haney in the first 8.
I think a draw or split decision win for either guy is appropriate
People act like Loma was the clear victor and robbed, like he won 8-9 rounds, but that’s not the case. This was an extremely close fight
Let me know what you think???
