Vasyl Lomachenko: “In My Mind I Didn’t Lose Any Fight”

By: Sean Crose

“After first loss within the skilled (ranks),” Vasyl Lomachenko stated to the media this week on the eve of his undisputed light-weight title combat with Devin Haney. “I’m considering every part can occur within the ring.” The reality is that the person, who was as soon as hailed as somebody who maybe may turn out to be one of the best boxer ever, now has two loses on his resume, to Orlando Salido and Teofimo Lopez respectively. Nonetheless, Lomachenko doesn’t appear to a lot care concerning the L’s on his file.

“Look,” he stated, “in my thoughts I didn’t lose any combat in skilled boxing. That’s why I sleep very effectively.” Though some could discover his assertion that he didn’t lose to Lopez a bit a lot, he could have a stronger argument in relation to his loss to Salido (in solely his second professional bout). “Should you perceive boxing,” he stated in his damaged English, “you noticed a state of affairs about Salido…through the combat, what number of low blows was. I feel I didn’t lose on the purpose.”

Honest sufficient, however does Lomachenko actually really feel he ought to have gotten the judges’ nod after his combat with the onerous hitting Lopez? “I stated earlier than, the identical state of affairs with Lopez,” Lomachenko said. “I didn’t really feel I misplaced this combat.” Whereas his combat towards the bigger, taller and very 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 for going to right down to 126 so as to face “The Monster” himself, Naoya Inoue. “I neglect make weight,” Lomachenko cracked earlier than admitting “it’s all the time fascinating combating with high fighters near our weight class.” He then went on to reward the Japanese multititlist. “He has the facility and he’s a high fighter,” stated Ukraine’s Lomachenko. “He’s a world champion. It’s all the time fascinating to observe the fighters who watch, who respect, and who love boxing.”

As for Haney, Lomachenko will face the spectacular American on Might twentieth as the primary occasion of a Prime Rank Pay Per View card. Ought to Lomachenko pull off the win, he could effectively discover speak of him doubtlessly being an all time nice making the rounds once more. Haney isn’t any simple activity, nevertheless. On the contrary, a Lomachenko loss at this level in his profession could be much less stunning than a Lomachenko win.