Vasiliy Lomachenko

Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Simpiwe Vetyeka possible for Mayweather-Pacquiao undercard on 5/2

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lomachenko566789By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is looking to stage a fight between WBO featherweight Vasyl Lomachenko (3-1, 1 KOs) and former WBA Super World featherweight champion Simpiwe Vetyeka (27-3, 16 KOs) on May 2nd on the Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Manny Pacquiao card on the Showtime – HBO joint broadcast pay-per-view fight card from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Presumably, the Lomachenko-Vetyeka fight will be the third fight on the pay-per-view portion of the card. In other words, it’ll be the opening fight on the PPV broadcast.

Lomachenko to fight in April against TBA

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lomachenko99By Allan Fox: Three months from now WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (3-1, 1 KOs) will be returning to the ring to face an opponent still to be determined. The southpaw Lomachenko is recovering from a hand injury from his last fight against Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo last November on the Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri fight card.

There’s no word who Lomachenko’s opponent will be, but one fighter it definitely won’t be is WBA champion Nicholas Walters, according to Dan Rafael. That fight still needs to be built up more before the two of them can face each other. In other words, the Lomachenko vs. Walters fight needs to marinate more in order to make it a huge fight.

Videos: Chris Algieri, Vasyl Lomachenko, Roy Jones Jr Presser

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Undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior welterweight champion CHRIS ALGIERI will make his final appearance in Los Angeles before heading off to The Venetian Macao to challenge Fighter of the Decade and reigning WBO welterweight champion MANNY “Pacman” PACQUIAO. Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs), from Huntington, NY on Long Island, who has Bachelor of Science degree in Health Care Management, a Masters degree in Clinical Nutrition and a Ph.D. in Upsets Inside the Ring, will host a Los Angeles press conference luncheon TODAY ! November 6,at The Conga Room located at LA Live! (800 West Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90015). Lunch will be served at Noon with the press conference beginning at 12:30 p.m. PT. It will be streamed live, beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 p.m. PT, via www.toprank.tv.

Arum wants Lomachenko and Nicholas Walters to fight in 2015

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waltersBy Allan Fox: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says that he’d like to setup a fight between WBA Super World featherweight champion Nicholas Walters (25-0, 21 KOs) and WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (2-1, 1 KOs) in 2015.

Walters recently obliterated one of Arum’s most popular fighters in Nonito Donaire in stopping him in the 6th round last October in a pretty much one-sided fight. Now that Donaire is out of the unofficial featherweight tournament that Arum has going, it’s now Lomachenko and Walters that need to face each other.

Arum wants Donaire-Walters winner to face Lomachenko

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lomachenko99By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is interested in matching the winner of this Saturday’s fight between WBA Super World featherweight champion Nonito Donaire (33-2, 21 KOs) and Nicholas Walters (24-0, 20 KOs) against WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (2-1, 1 KOs).

This would be an excellent fight, but it would be awfully tough on Walters and Donaire, because neither of those guys are in the same league as Lomachenko in my view.

“Arum told me today he’d like to match Saturday’s Donaire-Walters winner with Lomachenko if V-Lom wins 11/22. LOVE IT! #boxing,” said Dan Rafael of ESPN.

Lomachenko, Vargas and Shiming on Pacquiao vs. Algieri card on 11/22

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MACAO (September 18, 2014) — World champions VASYL LOMACHENKO and JESSIE VARGAS and China’s most iconic athlete, undefeated Top-Five contender ZOU SHIMING, will be featured in exciting battles on the MANNY “Pacman” PACQUIAO vs. CHRIS ALGIERI World Welterweight Championship pay-per-view undercard. Promoted by Top Rank® and Sands China Ltd., in association with MP Promotions, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing, Banner Promotions and Tecate, the Pacquiao-Algieri world welterweight championship event will take place Saturday, November 22, at The Venetian® Macao’s Cotai Arena, and will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View®, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT.

Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo added to Pacquiao-Algieri card on November 22nd

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lomachenko3By Chris Williams: WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (2-1, 1 KOs) will be making his first defense of his WBO 126 pound title against Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo (52-1, 33 KOs) on the undercard of the HBO televised pay-per-view card headlined by Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri on November 22nd at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China.

Top Rank promoter built up the Lomachenko vs. Piriyapinyo as an exciting fight that he feels will be competitive. Unfortunately, that’s probably not going to be the case. Piriyapinyo, 29, has one of the most padded records I’ve ever seen from a fighter. He’s got 52 wins, but all the victories came against very weak opposition.

Are the judges really to blame in a year of hard fights?

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floyd8888By Ramon Matthews Jr: Judging has certainly become one boxing’s weak points over the recent years. Boxing has actually become harder to score due to the style match-ups, particularly this year. In a year that has actually been a great year for boxing so far, we will take a look at the 5 most controversial decisions of the year (in no particular order).

5. Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Marcos Maidana: In a good action fight, something rarely seen from boxing’s current best fighter on Earth Floyd Mayweather, he was outworked in the first four rounds. From that point on depending on who you talk to, Mayweather took control of the rest of the fight.

Lomachenko should take a step back from world level

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lomachenko44444By Gav Duthie: I apologize in advance for being the voice of boredom but I think Vasyl Lomachenko 2-1 (1) should relinquish his recently acquired WBO Featherweight title and take a short break from fighting at the top level. There is no doubt Saturday night was an amazing achievement from the Ukranian amateur sensation who equaled Thai boxer Saensak Muangsurin’s record of winning a world title after only 3 fights. However, after doing a bit of research into Muangsurin and some of the other early achievers very few of them go on to have really successful careers. 

That combined with the fact that Loma’s last two fight have went to a split decision I fear that Lomachenko’s career could be over before it begins. Even though his win was well deserved I felt there were a lot of weaknesses in his game that could be rectified with some more professional experience. He seems to struggle on the back foot when under pressure, he can be countered quite easily, his arms are often low without the speed to justify this.