why does juanma lopez suck so bad now? He got hurt/rocked in the first round against Mike Oliver who only has 8 KO's in his career. Sure Lopez TKO'd Oliver in the next round because Oliver is a bum, but still the same old leaky defense he looks slow and doesn't put any combo's together really. He says he's ready for the Salido rematch and then Gamboa but honestly he's going to get KTFO by either guy.
His game really regressed and he's only 27 years old. Needs a new trainer or something.
Lopez has built the hell out of bad habits over the last few years. He's been fighting with worse and worse defense and be rocked A GRIP of times since beating Ponce De Leon. Think about it... Penalosa landed a ton of clean shots but wasn't much of a puncher at the weight and was taking a beating and still landed all those clean shots.
Mtagwa almost knocked him out
Luevano was slow and crusty but should've done worse than he did.
Concepcion dropped him and landed a bunch of good shots in a short fight if I remember correctly.
Marquez is way past his prime and we all know how that went. He landed some bombs on him and he's way slow now.
Salido landed a bunch of really clean shots, especially AFTER the big knockdown which really eats up a fighter in a hurry.
Beyond all that, he's gotten away with crappy defense. This is actually what I believe is happening to Pac. He's getting away with tons of flaws offensively and defensively by fighting fighters that aren't throwing back and aren't posing a huge threat. Clottey almost landed at will when he threw punches.