Vasyl Lomatschenko

Vasyl Lomatschenko
Wassyl Lomatschenko (2012)
Data
Birth Name	Vasiliy Lomachenko
Fight name	Hi-tech
Weight class	lightweight
nationality	Ukraine
birthday	17th February 1988
place of birth	Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
style	Legal display
size	1.68 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	15th
Victories	14th
Knockout victories	10
Defeats	1
draw	0

Wassyl Lomatschenko medal table
Boxing
Ukraine
Olympic Summer Games
gold	2012	lightweight
gold	2008	Featherweight
World Championship
gold	2011	lightweight
gold	2009	Featherweight
silver	2007	Featherweight
European Championship
gold	2008	Featherweight
Junior World Championship
gold	2006	Flyweight
European Cadet Championship
gold	2004	Light flyweight

Wassyl Anatolijowytsch Lomatschenko ( Ukrainian Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко ; born February 17, 1988 in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyj , Odessa Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian professional boxer , former world champion of the WBO, WBO , and WBO featherweight and super featherweight champion . For 2017 he was named Ring Magazine Boxer of the Year . The Ring Magazine lists him as best boxer in the world, regardless of weight classes ( Pound for pound ). (As of June 2019).

As an amateur, he was Olympic champion in 2008 , world champion in 2009 and European champion in 2008 in featherweight, as well as world champion in 2011 and Olympic champion in 2012 in lightweight .

Amateur career

Vasyl Lomatschenko became Ukrainian light flyweight cadet champion in 2004, Ukrainian flyweight champion in 2006, Ukrainian featherweight champion in 2008 and 2009, and Ukrainian lightweight champion in 2010 and 2011.

At the European Cadet Championships in Saratov in September 2004 , he won the gold medal in the light flyweight division. He had clearly prevailed in the final with 34:12 against the Russian Farid Aleszkin. At the Junior World Championships in Agadir in September 2006 , he also won the gold medal in the flyweight division. He defeated Derenik Gizhlaryan from Armenia 34:14 in the preliminary round and Sergei Wodopjanow from Russia 37:17 in the round of 16 . In the quarter-finals he defeated Andrew Selby from Wales and in the semifinals Rahim Najafov from Azerbaijan each early. He also won his final fight prematurely against the Cuban Albert Portuondo.

In November 2007 he was runner-up in the featherweight world champion in Chicago . After victories against the Puerto Rican Abner Cotto (26: 9), the Greek Theodoros Papazov (19: 5), the Belarusian Michail Bernadski (21: 6), the Mexican Arturo Reyes (knockout) and the Chinese Li Yang (+13: 13), he reached the final. There he was defeated by the Russian Albert Selimow 11:16. This automatically gave him a place in the featherweight division at the 29th Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008 . There he won the preliminary round against his conqueror Albert Selimow 14: 7 and then defeated the bronze medalist of the 2004 Olympic Games Bohodirjon Sultanow from Uzbekistan with 13: 1. In the quarterfinals he again defeated the Chinese Li Yang 12-3 and moved into the semifinals, where he defeated the Turkish Yakup Kılıç 10-1. He won the subsequent final early in the first round against Khedafi Djelkhir from France. Lomatschenko became only the second Olympic champion for Ukraine in boxing after Wladimir Klitschko . He was also awarded the Val Barker Cup as the best boxer of the Olympic Games in terms of style and technology.

In November 2008 he started still in featherweight at the European Championships in Liverpool . Here, too, he won the gold medal by winning against Vladimir Nikiforov from Estonia (10: 0), David Joyce from Ireland (10: 2), Hicham Ziouti from France (2: 1) and Araik Ambartsumow from Russia (7: 1) to back up.

In November 2009 he won the World Championships in Milan . He started again in the featherweight division and had Mario Aleksić from Bosnia 16: 2, Craig Evans from Wales 15: 1, Branimir Stanković from Serbia 8: 2, Óscar Valdez from Mexico 12: 1 and in the final again Sergei Wodopjanow from Russia 12: 1 beaten. At the 2011 World Championships in Baku , he was world champion in the lightweight. He had prevailed in the preliminary round against Lomalita Moala from Tonga (knockout) and the reigning US champion José Ramirez (16: 9) and narrowly defeated the Brazilian Robson Conceição (19:18) in the second round . In the quarterfinals he won against the Uzbek Fazliddin Gʻoibnazarov (18:10) and in the semifinals against the Italian Domenico Valentino (17:11). In the final, he defeated Cuban Yasniel Toledo 17:12.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , Lomatschenko defeated Wellington Arias from the Dominican Republic (15: 3) after a bye in the preliminary round , Félix Verdejo from Puerto Rico in the quarter-finals (14: 9) and in the semi-finals Yasniel Toledo from Cuba (14 : 11). In the final he defeated the South Korean Han Soon-chul (19: 9) and won his second Olympic gold medal.

In the 2012/13 season Lomatschenko fought for the Ukrainian Otamans in the World Series of Boxing , winning each of his six fights, including against Albert Selimow , Charly Suarez and Domenico Valentino . He ended his amateur career with an impressive record of 396 wins and only one loss.

Professional career

In August 2013 he switched to the professional camp and was signed by the US promoter "Top Rank Boxing". To promote his career, he moved to Marina del Rey , California, and played his first professional fight on October 12, 2013 in Las Vegas against the Mexican José Luis Ramírez García (record: 25-3), the reigning international featherweight champion of the WBO and in 7th place the world rankings. Lomatschenko won the fight in the fourth round by knockout, inflicted the first premature defeat of his career on his opponent and received a world championship chance in his second professional fight.

On March 1, 2014 he entered the ring in San Antonio against the Mexican Orlando Salido (40-12), who had won the WBO featherweight title four and a half months earlier by knocking out Orlando Cruz . Not least because of a points victory against Robert Guerrero and two early wins against Juan López , Salido was considered a hardy veteran who was ranked second in the world by The Ring magazine . At the time of the fight, the WBO world title was vacant again because Salido could not meet the weight limit and the title was therefore withdrawn from him. Thus the fight was only for Lomatschenko for the world title, who also had to stand in the ring for more than five rounds for the first time in his career. After the full twelve rounds, Salido was declared the winner by a split decision (2: 1 judge's decision) on points, with which Lomatschenko had to accept his first professional defeat and his only second defeat as a boxer.

On June 21, 2014, he boxed again for the vacant WBO featherweight title, defeating the American Gary Russell junior (24-0) by split decision on points. He was thus only in his third professional fight world champion, which before him only the Thai Saensak Muangsurin in 1975 in the light welterweight had succeeded. In his first title defense on November 23, 2014, he defeated the Thai Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo (52-1) unanimously on points.

He won his second title defense on May 2, 2015 by knockout against Gamalier Rodriguez (25-2) from Puerto Rico. In November 2015 he won his third title defense by knockout in the tenth round against the Mexican Romulo Koasicha (25-4).

On 11 June 2016 he won the WBO world title at super featherweight with a knockout win in the fifth round against Román Martínez (29-2) and became two in only his seventh fight world champion weight classes, making it the record of Naoya Inoue from the year 2014, which had required eight fights. On November 26 of the same year he also won early against Nicholas Walters (26-0), former WBA featherweight champion.

On April 8, 2017, he won his second title defense against Jason Sosa (20-1). On August 5th, he played his next title defense, defeating the Colombian Miguel Marriaga (25-5). On December 9, 2017, he defeated the Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-0) by technical knockout in the sixth round.

On May 12, 2018 he boxed lightweight against Jorge Linares (44-3) and won by TKO in the tenth round, making him WBA super world champion. He had thus won world championship titles in three weight classes in only twelve fights and broke the record of Jeff Fenech from 1988, who had achieved the aforementioned success with twenty fights. On December 8, 2018, he defeated José Pedraza (25-1) unanimously on points and thereby also won his WBO lightweight world title.

On April 12, 2019 he won by knockout in the fourth round against Anthony Crolla (34-6) and on August 31, 2019 by unanimous decision against Luke Campbell (20-2). By beating Campbell, he also won the WBC world title and is listed by Ring Magazine as the number 1 lightweight.

List of professional fights

14 wins (10 knockout wins), 1 defeat , 0 draw
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Lomachenko
2013	October 12th	Thomas & Mack Center , Las Vegas, USA	Jose Ramirez professional debut WBO International Featherweight Championship	Victory / KO 4th round
2014	1st March	Alamodome , San Antonio, USA	Orlando Salido vacant WBO Featherweight Championship	Point loss (split decision) / 12 rounds
	June 21st	StubHub Center , Carson, USA	Gary Russell junior vacant WBO Featherweight Championship	Point victory (majority decision) / 12 rounds
	November 23	Cotai Arena, Macau, China	Suriya Tatakhun WBO featherweight title defense	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2015	2.May	MGM Grand , Las Vegas, USA	Gamalier Rodriguez WBO featherweight title defense	Victory / KO 9th round
	November 7th	Thomas & Mack Center , Las Vegas, USA	Romulo Koasicha WBO featherweight defense	Victory / KO 10th round
2016	June 11th	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Román Martínez WBO World Super Featherweight Championship	Victory / KO 5th round
	November 26th	The Cosmopolitan , Las Vegas, USA	Nicholas Walters WBO Super Featherweight Title Defense	Victory / abandonment 7th round
2017	April 8th	MGM National Harbor, Oxon Hill, USA	Jason Sosa WBO Super Featherweight Title Defense	Victory / abandonment 9th round
	5th of August	Microsoft Theater , Los Angeles, USA	Miguel Marriaga WBO Super Featherweight Title Defense	Victory / abandonment 7th round
	9th of December	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Guillermo Rigondeaux WBO Super Featherweight Title Defense	Victory / abandonment 6th round
2018	12th of May	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Jorge Linares WBA World Lightweight Championship	Victory / TKO 10th round
	December 8th	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	José Pedraza WBA / WBO lightweight title association	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2019	12. April	Staples Center , Los Angeles, USA	Anthony Crolla WBA / WBO lightweight title defense	Victory / KO 4th round
	August 31	The O2 Arena , Greenwich, UK	Luke Campbell WBA / WBO lightweight title defense vacant WBC World Lightweight Championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
Source: Wassyl Lomatschenko in the BoxRec database

Awards

• 2017: Sugar Ray Robinson Award from BWAA as Boxer of the Year
• 2017: Ring Magazine Boxer of the Year
• 2008: Val Barker Cup as the best boxer of the Olympic Games

predecessor	Office	successor
Orlando Salido	Featherweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) June 21, 2014 - May 2016

predecessor	Office	successor
Román Martínez	Super featherweight boxing champion ( WBO ) June 11, 2016 - May 23, 2018

predecessor	Office	successor
Jorge Linares	World lightweight boxing champion ( WBA ) May 12, 2018 -

Web links

Commons : Wassyl Lomatschenko  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wassyl Lomatschenko in the BoxRec database

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• Box Sport trade journal from 2007 to 2008.
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
• "Results.bejing2008.cn" website