![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This last victory consolidated him among the best lightweights in the world alongside Lopez, the undefeated Gervonta Davis (WBA champion) and the also undefeated Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, who is the undisputed WBC, WBO, IBF, The Ring and World Association super champion. After the setback Lomachenko got back on track with a win over Ghana's Richard Commey (DU12) and in his October 2021 outpointed Japan's Masayoshi Nakatani by a 9-round knockout. Linares was followed by Puerto Rico's Jose Pedraza (DU12) and England's Anthony Crolla (KOT4), and then beat Britain's Luke Campbell for his WBA and WBO belts and the unowned WBC belt.īut all three belts were short-lived for VL: he lost them to Honduran-born American Teofimo Lopez, who won an upset decision in October two years ago. He added to his record 4 more victories in exhibition of that belt and on May 12, 4 years ago, he faced Venezuelan Jorge "Niño de Oro" Linares for the WBA lightweight crown, a tough battle in which he recovered from a sixth round knockdown with a KOT in the 10th, in which Linares fell in the middle of a melee. He then defeated Gary Russell for the WBO featherweight title, equaling the historical record of Thailand's Saensak Muangsurin, "The Devil's Shadow", who was super lightweight king with only three fights, on Jin Bangkok with a KOT8 over Pedro "Perico" Fernandez from Aragon.Īfter three defenses of that belt, Loma knocked out Puerto Rican Roman "Rocky" Martinez in 5 and was crowned WBO 130 lbs. belt against Orlando "Siri" Salido from Sonora (he lost the belt on the scales), who surprisingly beat him on points. His second outing was for the WBO 126 lbs. Lomachenko entered the pro once in 12 rounds nine years ago, on Octoin fight for the WBO international belt and defeated American Jose Ramirez. He was also European and world featherweight champion at the 2007 World Championship, while he was world lightweight king in 20. Loma, as he is known, was Olympic champion in feather and lightweight (Beijing-2008, London 2012) and made the leap to the professional by the hand of Top Rank (promoter company of Saturday's program), dazzled by the record of the fighter, now 34 years old, who in 397 fights in amateur won 396!, with a defeat on points, in 2007, against Albert Selinov, from which he took revenge in two subsequent clashes. ![]()
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