Vasiliy Lomachenko
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Shakur Stevenson: Oscar Valdez Is Best Of The Bunch At 130, I Want To Fight Him
Former 126-pound champion Shakur Stevenson wants to make a splash in the super featherweight division by squaring off with the division’s newly crowned champion. Oscar Valdez, who scored the knockout and upset of the year last month over Miguel Berch...
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Arum on Lomachenko vs. Haney: That's a Fight We Would Certainly Consider
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum has no problem with matching Vasyl Lomachenko against WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney. In 2019, Haney was the mandatory challenger to Lomachenko's WBC title. Lomachenko, in what became a controversial move, made a request...
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Arum Eyeing Lomachenko Comeback Fight Against Masayoshi Nakatani In Summer
Vasiliy Lomachenko’s return to the ring appears to be against a fighter that his most recent conqueror Teofimo Lopez once defeated. Top Rank boss Bob Arum revealed that he’s eyeing a comeback fight for the two-time Olympics gold medalist winner Lomac...
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Haney: Loma Acted Like I Didn't Exist When I Was His Mandatory; Does He Deserve Shot Now?
Teofimo Lopez isn’t the only WBC lightweight champion who isn’t interested in fighting Vasiliy Lomachenko. Now that Devin Haney has leverage over Lomachenko, he doesn’t want to fight the former three-division champion, either. Lomachenko is the WBC’s...
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Shane McGuigan Rates The Top Five Lightweights
By Tris Dixon - A huge amount of talk in boxing as 2021 opens surrounds the red-hot lightweight division. Boxing has its own Fab Five, with Vasiliy Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez, Ryan Garcia, Gervonta Davis and Devin Haney and there seems to be little be...
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Teofimo Lopez Hopes Josh Taylor Beats Ramirez, Wants To Face Him
IBF, WBC Franchise, WBA, WBO lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez is already eyeing a potential showdown with the WBA, IBF champion at 140-pounds, Josh Taylor. Taylor is being lined up for a full division unification with WBC, WBO champion Jose Ramirez...
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Lomachenko Rates Lopez’s Punching Power: Hard, But Not One-Punch KO Hard
However many excuses he has trotted out since dropping a unanimous decision to Teofimo Lopez last October in their lightweight unification bout, one area in which Vasiliy Lomachenko is happy to give credit to his former adversary is his power.
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Teofimo Lopez Rejects Idea of Lomachenko Rematch: Everybody Was Being a D-ck To Me, My Father
Teofimo Lopez is a man of principle. Slight him, or his trainer-father, and expect to receive the same treatment. Which is why, apparently, the unified lightweight champion (or whatever designation the WBC deems is legitimate) refuses to entertain a...
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Lomachenko Casts Doubt on CompuBox Efficacy During Lopez Fight: 'I Really Question How They Count Punches'
Vasiliy Lomachenko is no stats geek, but he has some serious questions about the method that was used to count his punches – or not count, rather – during his lightweight unification bout against Teofimo Lopez last October.
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BoxingScene.com's 2020 Upset of The Year: Rosario Stops Williams
By Thomas Gerbasi - There really should have been a better storyline behind Jeison Rosario’s fifth-round stoppage of Julian Williams, a bout that earned Boxing Scene’s Upset of the Year award for 2020. Unlike other great upsets in the sport, Rosario’...
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Garcia: Lomachenko, Linares Couldn't Take Out Campbell, I Climbed Off Canvas To Knock Him Out
DALLAS—Ryan Garcia is surrounded by too much greatness to let any type of adversity stand in the way of achieving his goals. The unbeaten lightweight contender proved his mettle in his most recent performance, climbing off of canvas to drop and stop...
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Lomachenko Very Interested in Facing Gervonta Davis in 2021
Former three division champion Vasiliy Lomachenko is currently mapping out his targets for 2021. Back in October, Lomachenko suffered the second defeat of his career when he lost a twelve round unanimous decision to Teofimo Lopez in their highly anti...