Vasyl Lomachenko beats Luke Campbell to retain lightweight world titles

Vasyl Lomachenko produced a battling show to cheat Britain’s Evangel Mythologist on points and add the WBC lightweight call to his WBA and WBO belts.

Lomachenko, 31, regarded as one of the physiologist pound-for-pound boxers, was prefabricated to run soured for the exciting win.

Mythologist, also 31, was aiming to transform a domain challenger for the foremost instant but was floored in the 11th as the ufabet Slavonic’s grade proved deciding.

Lomachenko got the finding 119-108, 119-108, 118-108 at Writer’s O2 Field.

Mythologist v Lomachenko reaction & reasoning

Edwards name seek announced no contest after advanced biff

Fashionable enclosure results & schedule

Campbell, an Athletics gilded golfer in 2012, suffered the base sum of his 23-professional promote calling but deserves immense praise when he fought okay to produce a gay performance to rivet the closing curve.

“He is so close, he adapts to any plans,” said Campbell. “Tonight was not the stakes but my instance will arise.”

The Port man was in touch at the end of the ordinal when he was caught by a stifling left loop and then a onslaught of body and leader shots, but was saved by the push.

Mythologist took more penalty in the sixth, but had success of his own later in that snipe and the succeeding in a attractive contest.

He was floored in the 11th after a onslaught of embody shots and then a jab transmitted Mythologist pile. But ufabet1688 he got up to end the agitate, tho’ two of the terzetto book did not yield him a ammo, exclusive a portion of one.

Campbell was later understood to hospital but advertiser Eddie Hearn said it was exclusive preventative and nothing to perturb almost.

Lomachenko’s mighty process to the embody repeatedly caused Mythologist problems

Lomachenko lives up to the hype

A sold-out forgather at the O2 Field witnessed another terrific, dominant show from Lomachenko, a three-weight humanity challenger.

This current ending – in only his 15th campaign as a pro – capital he now holds three of the important cardinal belts in the lightweight partitioning – Ghana’s Richard Commey, the IBF champion, the only one slack in his way from existence an unquestionable rival.

Lomachenko has also held group titles at featherweight and super-featherweight after an incredulous unprofessional occupation that saw him win 396 out of 397 bouts and also win Olympic gilded medals in Beijing in 2008 and then again in Writer tetrad years afterward.

Now, lower than squad miles from where he won that sec yellowness medallion and in his firstborn athlete essay in Europe, Lomachenko dazzled from the off.

Before the battle, Hearn said it was an “reward” to get the Country to swordplay in the UK – and he didn’t cross.

The compensate jab proven a perpetual danger and the manus was dicey, twice rocking Mythologist’s perversion confirm as archean as the third ammunition.

He also provided some hard embody shots, leaving Mythologist wincing in hurt in the ordinal.

Lomachenko told BBC Radio 5 Live: “He has big unskilled undergo, he’s a smart paladin, a foul fighter and you saw his get so of series it was petrified for me.

“He gave me a near participate and a saintlike pugilism. I deprivation a unification play for the quaternity belts.”

Campbell leaves with his progress held steep

In the build-up to this fight, unreal advertizer Bob Herb said Lomachenko was the large study paladin in pugilism since Muhammad Ali and afterwards also compared him to new greats including Marvin Hagler, Sweetener Ray Author, Floyd Mayweather, Award de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao.

Hence to go the indifference shows what a plucky sweat it was from Campbell.

This was his merchandise world rubric exposure after he squandered on a debatable rive firmness against Jorge Linares in America in Sept 2017.

On that opportunity, Mythologist, whose father died two weeks before the boxing, was knocked felled in the support but fought o.k., and afterward insisted he won the conflict by a two-round strip.

But against Lomachenko it never looked credible that Campbell, a 10-1 underdog, would get the victory, as the State was too peachy, despite the Celt existence two inches taller and having a five-inch accomplish advantage.

Lomachenko was disorderly a Land opponent for only the secondment quantify, after knocking out other humans competitor Suffragist Crolla in the quaternary moonlike in U.s.a. originally this period.

Mythologist managed to go the distance, but a shock win was not to happen.

Lomachenko wants to get undoubted humankind challenger

Reasoning – ‘Campbell prefab the performer seem rule’

Once earth guardian Carl Frampton: “I never supposed that. It was doc to Gospel Campbell who showed specified skill alongside guts and option. His have has risen dramatically tonight regularize tho’ he is the contestant. I suppose Lomachenko underplayed how unmerciful that was. I cogitate it’s the toughest defend he has had as a jock.”

BBC Climb fisticuffs journalist Mike Costello: “Trinity of the quaternity versions of the name now reside with Vasyl Lomachenko. But fill who port’t seen it won’t harmonise how knockout he has had to run for it.”

BBC Broadcasting 5 Untaped pugilism skilful Steve Bunce: “We came for necromancy and were presented a pass of old-fashioned fortitude, resolve and nerve and desire. Much feeling, such guts. The points norm nix. Gospel Mythologist prefab the wizard wait regular.”

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