On a night where VASILIY ‘Hi-Tech’ LOMACHENKO will challenge WBA and Ring Magazine lightweight champion JORGE ‘El Niño de Oro’ LINARES for division supremacy, a slew of prospects and contenders will look to steal the show May 12 at Madison Square Garden.
By Allan Fox: Promoter Floyd Mayweather Jr. has reportedly had talks with Top Rank boss Bob Arum about a fight between former super featherweight champion Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis (19-0, 18 KOs) and Vasyl Lomachenko.
By Chris Williams: Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank have finalized the May 12th fight between WBA World lightweight champion Jorge Linares and 2-time Olympic gold medalist Vasyl Lomachenko. This wasn’t an easy fight to put together due the date of the fight conflicting with the replay of the Saul Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin 2 fight.
By Chris Williams: The contracts have been signed for the May 12th fight between WBA World lightweight champion Jorge Linares (44-3, 27 KOs) and Top Rank fighter Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) for a contest that will be televised on ESPN at Madison Square Garden in New York.
By Jim Dower: Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez says the fight between WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares (44-3, 27 KOs) and Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) is still not done for May 12th.
By Dan Ambrose: Mikey Garcia (38-0, 30 KOs) won his fourth division world title last Saturday night in beating IBF light welterweight champion Sergey Lipinets (13-1, 10 KOs) on Showtime in a fight that could have easily gone the other way at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio. Mikey won by the scores 116-111, 117-110 and 117-110. Unfortunately, Mikey took a real battering at the hands of the hard-hitting 28-year-old Belarusian Lipinets. The decision should have gone to Lipinets. He was the better fighter last night. Mikey looked like a guy that had lost a step and was fighting outside of his normal weight class.
By Jim Dower: Vasyl ‘Hi Tech’ Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) says he believes his next fight will be against WBA World lightweight champion Jorge Linares (44-3, 27 KOs) when he returns to the ring on May 12 on ESPN at Madison Square Garden in New York.
By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says it’s up to ESPN whether the May 12th fight between WBA World lightweight champion Jorge Linares and Vasyl Lomachenko can take place on that date. ESPN will need to move a women’s SEC softball game that is in the time slot that Arum needs for the Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) vs. Linares fight, according to Lance Pugmire of the LA Times.
By Chris Williams: Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez is working on a compromise with Top Rank and ESPN to stage the important lightweight clash between WBA champion Jorge Linares and Vasyl Lomachenko on May 12th at Madison Square Garden in New York.
By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum still hasn’t given up hope on putting together a fight between his stable fighter Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) and WBA World lightweight champion Jorge Linares (44-3, 27 KOs) for May 12 on ESPN at Madison Square Garden in New York.