{"id":674178,"date":"2026-05-16T06:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674178\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:26:20","slug":"sergio-mora-says-lomachenko-should-fight-tank-not-shakur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674178\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Mora Says Lomachenko Should Fight Tank, Not Shakur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Shakur is big. Shakur and Loma\u2019s a big fight. Bigger than Tank and Loma,\u201d Mannix said to DAZN Boxing. \u201cI think him and Shakur is such a chess match. It\u2019s such a high-level fight between two high level guys are there any more skilled guys in boxing than Lomachenko and Shakur?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson no longer competes at lightweight after moving up to 140 pounds earlier this year, where he defeated Teofimo Lopez for the WBO light welterweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Shakur has also recently appeared on several Riyadh Season-backed cards after much of his earlier career took place on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Mora said Stevenson is now too big, too young, and too active for the 38-year-old Lomachenko.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely not Shakur. Why not? Because I think two decorated amateurs. I get it. But medalists, stars, Shakur is on another level now. He\u2019s bigger. He\u2019s younger. He\u2019s faster. He\u2019s stronger,\u201d Mora said. \u201cI would rather Loma go for someone like a Tank Davis because they\u2019re going to be equal in stature. They\u2019re going to be equal in somewhat and inactivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mora also rejected the idea that Lomachenko has become a defensive fighter late in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see how he beat the crap out of Richard Comey. How he beat the crap out of George Kambosos. I don\u2019t put him as a defensive-minded fighter,\u201d Mora said. \u201cHe is all offense. He is all gas, no break when it comes to offense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think Shakur is big. Shakur and Loma\u2019s a big fight. Bigger than Tank and Loma,\u201d Mannix said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-674178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}