Devin Haney (30-0, 15 KOs) successfully defended his undisputed lightweight championship, clinching a nail-biting unanimous decision victory over Vasiliy Lomachenko (17-3, 11 KOs), Ukraine’s three-division world champion.
Which year-end fight has you the most excited? It could be Errol Spence’s return against Danny Garcia, or maybe it’s one of the two (still to be announced) heavyweight title fights, either Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder III or Anthony Joshua-Kubrat Pulev.
Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs) will be risking his WBA/WBC/WBO lightweight titles when he faces IBF champion Teofimo Lopez (15-0, 12 KOs) in a unification clash in mid to late October of this year.
Shawn Porter thinks that IBF lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez isn’t ready to take on a fighter as seasoned as Vasiliy Lomachenko right now, and he can’t see him winning their October 3 unification contest this early in his career.
Teofimo Lopez took a trip to Madison Square Garden in New York to take a look at the venue that he was supposed to have been fighting Vasiliy Lomachenko this month.
Ryan Garcia says he doesn’t view any of the current 135-pound champions as true champions because of the guys that they beat to win their titles.
Trainer Teofimo Lopez Sr. can’t wait until his son Teofimo Jr. (15-0, 12 KOs) gets a chance to fight WBA/WBC/WBO lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs) in September.
Unified lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko is riding out the COVID-19 pandemic in his native Ukraine, but the three-weight kingpin is chomping at the bit to get his hands on the division’s leading names, including IBF world champion Teofimo Lopez, WBC world champion Devin Haney and Gervonta “Tank” Davis.
IBF lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez jumped ahead of his promoters at Top Rank by hinting that his unification fight against WBA/WBC [F]/WBO champion Vasily Lomachenko will be on May 30 in New York.
Teofimo Lopez enjoyed a breakout year in 2019. The unbeaten 22 year old capped off a fine year, in which he fought and won four times, when he went right through the tough, never stopped Richard Commey inside two rounds to rip a version of the world lightweight title in December.