Vasiliy Lomachenko: record, next fight and profile →
As much as Oscar Valdez wants to silence Shakur Stevenson, he also is motivated to capitalize financially on his career-changing victory over Miguel Berchelt as much as possible.
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 Berchelt last month to capture the 130-pound WBC crown, apparently has sparked the Newark native’s appetite for a palatable fight.
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 to the WBC to make him the "Franchise" champion. The sanctioning body approved his request, with Lomachenko becoming the Franchise champion and Haney was elevated to the status of full champion.
Richard Commey’s promoter is sure Commey’s performance Saturday night against Jackson Marinez made him a viable opponent for any of the young, unbeaten, elite lightweights that he hasn’t fought.
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 Lomachenko against Masayoshi Nakatani.
Ukrainian standout Ivan Golub is looking to continue his push up the world ratings on February 20, as he features on One For All Promotions card at the Caribe Royale Resort, Orlando, Florida.
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 number-one ranked contender in the lightweight division, but the WBC hasn’t ordered Lopez, its franchise 135-pound champion, or Haney, its world lightweight champ, to fight the Ukrainian southpaw.
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 between any of them. But trainer Shane McGuigan has seen two of the brilliant crop while up close and personal hav...
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. Lopez is hoping Taylor will win - and then the two of them can face each other in the ring.
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.