Devin Haney remains undisputed lightweight champion

In Las Vegas on Saturday, American Devin Haney defeated earlier champion Vasiliy Lomachenko to maintain maintain of the undisputed lightweight world championship.

The pair slugged it out for 12 rounds, however neither was capable of land a decisive blow, and the combat went to the judges’ scorecards.

Devin Haney remains undisputed lightweight champion

As the judges had seen it, Haney had shaded what was an in depth combat, and so they returned a unanimous victory for the American.

However, the judges all scored the combat as very shut, with their remaining playing cards studying 116-112, 115-113, 115-113 in favour of Haney.

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The 24-year-old from San Francisco retains his unbeaten report and strikes out to 30-0 in his skilled boxing profession.

Haney was the early aggressor, arguably giving him a key benefit regardless of Lomachenko rising into the bout.

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Lomachenko makes a combat of it

Lomachenko is a wily veteran at 35, and he discovered a method again into the combat and even had Haney wobbling after touchdown an uppercut within the third spherical.

The combat’s center rounds seemed that Haney had regained the higher hand, however Lomachenko completed effectively because the MGM Grand Garden Arena viewers roared the previous champion on.

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Although Lomachenko landed extra blows all through the combat—124 to the American’s 110—Haney however rocked him with a left hook within the seventh spherical and proceeded to strike exact counterpunches on his goal.

Haney retains his titles from the World Boxing Council, International Boxing Federation, World Boxing Association, and World Boxing Organization due to the victory.

With a landslide unanimous choice victory over George Kambosos in Melbourne in June 2022, he grew to become the primary undisputed lightweight world champion since Pernell Whitaker in 1990.

After enlisting in a Ukrainian territorial protection unit following Russia’s invasion of the nation, Lomachenko returned to the ring in October of final yr.

After Saturday’s loss, the veteran’s report slumps to 17-3 with 11 knockouts.

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