Vasiliy Lomachenko: record, next fight and profile →
LOS ANGELES — Vasiliy Lomachenko is in no rush to move up to 140 pounds, but that doesn’t mean the unified lightweight champion won’t make a weight-class switch in the near future. Lomachenko revealed Tuesday that he’s considering a return to junior lightweight and has an opponent in mind.
Felix "El Diamante" Verdejo is very focused on his next bout against Costa Rican Bryan Vasquez. Verdejo (24-1, 16 KO's) will face Vasquez (37-3, 20 KO's) on April 20 at Madison Square Garden in New York as part of the undercard featuring the welterweight where Terence "Bud" Crawford will defend his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title against Amir "King" Khan.
Vasiliy Lomachenko Workout Photos Gallery - This Friday live and exclusively on ESPN+ at 11 p.m. ET from the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. The reigning WBA/WBO lightweight – and widely regarded pound-for-pound –champion, Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs), is set to defend his unified lightweight world title against mandatory challenger Anthony Crolla (34-6-3, 13 KOs). The undercard bouts will also stream live on ESPN+ beginning at 8 p.m. ET. All the evening’s fights will be available in Spanish on ESPN+. (photos by Ed Mulholland).
Anthony Crolla Workout Photos Gallery - This Friday live and exclusively on ESPN+ at 11 p.m. ET from the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. The reigning WBA/WBO lightweight – and widely regarded pound-for-pound –champion, Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs), is set to defend his unified lightweight world title against mandatory challenger Anthony Crolla (34-6-3, 13 KOs). The undercard bouts will also stream live on ESPN+ beginning at 8 p.m. ET. All the evening’s fights will be available in Spanish on ESPN+. (photos by Ed Mulholland).
Veteran trainer Joe Gallagher is confident that former world champion Anthony Crolla will not disgrace himself when he steps in the ring with WBA, WBO Vasiliy Lomachenko. This Friday night, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Crolla attempt to pull off one of the biggest upsets in the history of the sport.
Rising lightweight star Teofimo Lopez (12-0, 10 KOs) will be looking to do a lot of damage when he faces Edis Tatli on the April 20 undercard of the Terence Crawford-Amir Khan ESPN Pay-Per-View from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The goal for Lopez is to secure a showdown, by the end of the year, with WBO, WBA world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko.
Anthony Crolla clearly wasn’t the opponent Bob Arum had in mind for Vasiliy Lomachenko’s next fight. Lomachenko’s promoter had designs on matching the WBA “super” lightweight champion against IBF champ Richard Commey in a 135-pound title unification fight. When Commey suffered a hand injury during his second-round knockout of Isa Chaniev on February 2, a doctor prescribed Commey two months of physical therapy and rest.
Despite suffering injuries, Teofimo Lopez has been very active throughout his young career. After fighting 6 times in 2017 and 4 times last year, the 21-year-old said that he plans on fighting another 4-5 times this year against better competition.
Anthony Crolla is not planning to go down without a serious fight when he faces WBA, WBO lightweight world champion Vasyl Lomachenko at the Staples Center on April 12th in Los Angeles, California. Crolla is, to some, a 100-1 underdog in the bout - despite that he's a former world champion with a lot of experience.
With his first title defense officially out of the way, Oleksandr Gvozdyk can now fully focus on the next order of business. In the ring, it means pursuing his fellow light heavyweight titlists. For now, though, next on his list is to have fun and take in a night at the fights as he watches countryman Vasiliy Lomachenko in action in an April 12 lightweight title defense versus Anthony Crolla.