By: Sean Crose
“After first loss in the professional (ranks),” Vasyl Lomachenko stated to the media this week on the eve of his undisputed light-weight title struggle with Devin Haney. “I’m thinking everything can happen in the ring.” The fact is that the person, who was as soon as hailed as somebody who maybe might turn into the very best boxer ever, now has two loses on his resume, to Orlando Salido and Teofimo Lopez respectively. Still, Lomachenko doesn’t appear to a lot care in regards to the L’s on his file.
“Look,” he stated, “in my mind I didn’t lose any fight in professional boxing. That’s why I sleep very well.” Although some might discover his assertion that he didn’t lose to Lopez a bit a lot, he might have a stronger argument relating to his loss to Salido (in solely his second professional bout). “If you understand boxing,” he stated in his damaged English, “you saw a situation about Salido…during the fight, how many low blows was. I think I didn’t lose on the point.”
Fair sufficient, however does Lomachenko actually really feel he ought to have gotten the judges’ nod after his struggle with the exhausting hitting Lopez? “I said before, the same situation with Lopez,” Lomachenko said. “I didn’t feel I lost this fight.” While his struggle towards the bigger, taller and intensely proficient Haney hasn’t even gone down but, Lomachenko was requested about rematching Lopez. “I can’t (make it ) to 140,” he joked. “After that, you ask me about Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.”
Lomachenko was then requested about the potential of going to all the way down to 126 to be able to face “The Monster” himself, Naoya Inoue. “I forget how to make weight,” Lomachenko cracked earlier than admitting “it’s always interesting fighting with top fighters close to our weight class.” He then went on to reward the Japanese multititlist. “He has the power and he’s a top fighter,” stated Ukraine’s Lomachenko. “He’s a world champion. It’s always interesting to watch the fighters who watch, who respect, and who love boxing.”
As for Haney, Lomachenko will face the spectacular American on May twentieth as the primary occasion of a Top Rank Pay Per View card. Should Lomachenko pull off the win, he might effectively discover speak of him doubtlessly being an all time nice making the rounds once more. Haney isn’t any straightforward process, nevertheless. To the opposite, a Lomachenko loss at this level in his profession is likely to be much less shocking than a Lomachenko win.
