By Jeff Aranow: Top Rank boss Bob Arum says super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko is so good that he’ll make a joke out of WBC lightweight champion Mikey Garcia and WBA champion Jorge Linares when he moves up to the 135-lb. division in 2018.
Vasiliy Lomachenko
Rigondeaux’s left hand NOT broken says promoter Dino Duva
By Tim Royner: Guillermo Rigondeaux did NOT suffer a broken left hand in his loss to super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko as originally thought last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. According to Rigondeaux’s promoter Dino Duva, he suffered a bruised left hand in the fight.
Lomachenko not surprised Rigondeaux quit
By Chris Williams: Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) said after his 6th round stoppage win over Cuban star Guillermo ‘The Jackal’ Rigondeaux (17-1, 11 KOs) that he wasn’t surprised he quit in the ring after the 6th round.
Lomachenko disproves detractors in dominant TKO against Rigondeaux
By Godfrey Falcon: History was made on December 9th, 2017 at the Madison Square Garden in New York, where the first ever professional boxing match was held between two two-time Olympic Gold Medalists. It was a bout that had some critics and fans thinking 50-50, but also an alarmingly high number of people presuming it would be a landslide victory for one or the other fighter.
Arum wants Oscar Valdez vs. Christopher Diaz for WBO 130lb. title
By Chris Williams: After Vasyl Lomachenko gives up his WBO super featherweight title soon, Top Rank boss Bob Arum reportedly wants to have WBO 126 lb. champion Oscar Valdez (23-0, 19 KOs) move up in weight to fight unbeaten Christopher Diaz (22-0, 14 KOs) for the vacant WBO 130lb. title.
Lomachenko’s win over Rigondeaux does nothing for him
By Chris Williams: Vasyl Lomachenko’s win last Saturday night over a smaller, older and injured 37-year-old super bantamweight Guillermo ‘The Jackal’ Rigondeaux (17-1, 11 KOs) won’t do anything to increase his popularity with the casual boxing fans of the sport.
Has Rigondeaux tarnished his legacy?
By Rob Maclean: In what was deemed a technical chess match between two amateur greats, Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8ko’s) and Guillermo Rigondeaux’s (17-1, 11ko’s) first in a lifetime battle, was little more than a mismatch. Ukraine’s Vasyl Lomachenko didn’t, at any point, allow Cuba’s Guillermo Rigondeaux to fight his style, until the beginning of round seven, when a perplexed and confidence shot Rigondeaux waved the white flag. Of course it’s difficult to claim a hand injury when the Cuban failed to land any real telling blows throughout the fight. Ultimately it was clear that Rigondeaux was beaten physically, but more telling than that, he mentally capitulated.
Arum doubts Rigondeaux’s injury for Lomachenko fight
By Sean Jones: Guillermo Rigondeaux surprised a lot of people last Saturday by quitting on his stool after round 6 against WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs0 in their fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. Rigondeaux only connected on 15 punches in the 6 round fight before quitting on his stool.
Arum: Mikey Garcia will probably quit against Lomachenko
By Juan Flores: Unbeaten lightweight champion Mikey Garcia (37-0, 30 KOs) will likely quit against Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs), says Top Rank promoter Bob Arum. He says Garcia will last long enough against Lomachenko until the point where he’s on the verge of being knocked out, and then he’ll quit to get out of the fight.
Lomachenko is unquestionably P4P #1
By Bob Smith: Like many fans, I was unsure what to expect when Vasyl Lomachenko faced Guillermo Rigondeaux last night. I tended to agree in a general way with Jim Lampley and Paulie Malignaggi who argued that the size and youth of Lomachenko would be too much for Rigondeaux going into the fight.