Comments Thread For: Vasyl Lomachenko Inks a Pro Deal With The AIBA

[VirusTI]

BTW, did Usyk sign with these guys too??? I hope not, as he is my favorite fighter in the Olympics and think he would make a spectacular cruiser

[Alx.]

that's so bad....

[MJ223]

Very disappointed.....

[-PBP-]

What's the advantage to this?

I'm not sure I fully understand what's going on here. From the outside looking in it seems like a huge conflict of interest and on top of that, gives the fighters very little upside to their pro careers.

[ChampBox@PR]

WTF is this mickey mouse shiiit?

Can anyone explain this crap? Jake, Ernest? anyone from boxingscene staff with better knoewledge???

[steven_z]

WTF? Has he lost his mind?
I only hope that Golden Boy or Top Rank - whoever wanted to sign him - will help him get out of this nonsense contract.
Most likely he got pressured by AIBA to sign and needs help to break up with them.

[ИATAS]

All seems abit strange this. Conflict of interests and all that.

hell yeah this is shady as hell smh

[tostao]

totally illegal to force olympic amateur competitors into contract before the end of the olympic games . Before semis boxers were told to make the decision , otherwise all the decisions would've gone against them .

[BattleAxePurist]

This sounds ridiculous, semi-pro league whta's the point again

This explains why the Lithuianian got jobbed they wanted to give him a coast in the finals

[steven_z]

totally illegal to force olympic amateur competitors into contract before the end of the olympic games . Before semis boxers were told to make the decision , otherwise all the decisions would've gone against them .

If that's the case then it's possible to challenge validity of this contract in court later on.