Camarillo, California – fights are often compared with wars, although this is no longer a metaphor for Vasiliy Lomachenko cares about devoting. Not anymore. Not after watching a real thing.
With regard to the war, a two -time gold medalist of Ukraine, considered for several years to be the largest warrior in the world, has something to do with the average American. “I saw war only on television before,” he said by the translator. “I had no idea: the buildings are destroyed, the cities are encountered from the map, people are killed. I did not take it personally, because it did not happen to me. It happened somewhere else with someone else.”
For some reason, a rocket hit remains with him. This hit a popular holiday destination on the Black Sea coast, maybe half a mile from the place where he stayed, maybe less, but left more than a few buildings in ruins. “I will remember this moment forever because my whole family was there,” said Lomachenko. “I don’t mean only my parents and my children, but my family.”
One can only imagine that excessive emotions such as a blow can move, even in one of them as existing, driven and pre -composed as Lomachenko: fear, rage, panic, confusion. But perhaps, perhaps the most perversely wonderful of all, Lomachenko’s career arch is different in the history of very venerable sport: 396 wins in relation to one defeat (of course Avenged) at amateurs, these gold medals, the title only in his third professional fight and stripes in three divisions. None of them – none of them were left to accident.
Yes, with the 35th birthday approaching in February, the war cost him in the last thing, which he really wanted from boxing – “My Dream”, calls it – the undisputed airy title, all four main belts.
But … So what? The whole family was destroyed in a rocket hit. Besides, he is still hunting. He fights with Jamaine Ortiz, the eighth WBC ranking at Hul theater in Madison Square Garden on Saturday (22:00 ET at ESPN+). It turns out that he is still in the game for the undisputed, not considered the likely result in February.
When the army of Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine, Lomachenko was in an orthodox monastery in Greece. His Lithuanian manager, Egis Klimas – obliged only to protect the interest of his warrior – advised Loma to attract his family and go directly to Camarillo, where he maintains the house and training center. Finally, it was thought that the war would be brutal and brief, the fact was achieved. Loma was a warrior-with a versatile agreement to fight George Cambosos Jr. For all airy belts-not a war hero.
“How could I do it?” Lomachenko said this week. “I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. I wouldn’t be able to take care of my life if I did it if I ran away. … The enemy attacked our country. Civilians are killed. Women and children die. Every man in my position, every real person would remain to protect his home.”
The last picture that most people saw from the Loma dated in February last year, when he enlisted to the local defense battalion. He is seen in combat fatigue, the rifle flew to his back.
You never know what the warrior really feels, but it wasn’t a fight. So he came neat: “fear and confusion,” he said, the wrong emotions for the great Lomachenko. “I tried to understand what was going on and what would happen.”
What did your day look like? I’m wondering.
“I wasn’t on the first line or on the battlefield,” he said quickly. “I wasn’t in battle.”
Lucky Guy again.
“The first days passed quickly because the situation would change really quickly,” he said. “Our group was supposed to patrol the city after a police hour. The police ration began at 22:00, when we start to combine the streets. To notice a person who should not be outside, or a car that should not be on the way. You must be as vigilant as during the fight.”
So the great Luchenko got a night shift. I wonder how he slept.
“I slept well,” he said. “I was exhausted.”
Especially after they let him train. “Four times a week,” he said. “I had a special schedule in the army [facility]. They gave me time for training because they understood my dream. “
However, despite the whole conversation about his dream, he never questioned his decision to fight Cambosos for all lanes. Instead, the shot went to a very talented youthful star, Devin Haney.
“He doesn’t regret it,” he said. “Nothing. .”
Still, are you wondering what is going through Lomachenko’s mind, watching it?
“I didn’t see it,” he said. “I slept.”
Lomachenko will allow the first fight in June not what he expected: “I thought he would fight Cambosos.” As for the rematch, he is a cage in his opinion of Haney: “He was good. He was wise. He showed why he was better than George Cambosos.”
You were not impressed?
“I’m not easily impressed.”
23 Haneya. The kid traveled 8,000 miles, fought before the hostile crowd of the stadium, returned a few months later and did it again, throwing another closure or damn close to him.
“I wouldn’t call it a heroic feat,” said Lomachenko. “This is something we all do. … He went to another country; he won the fight and returned. This is common practice.”
There is a final game here. Like Ukraine, the dream of this Ukrainian survived. Anyway, to do that he must go through Haney.
Would you give him the same licenses during the negotiations that Cambosos gave? I’m asking.
“You know my answer,” he said. “
What if Haney wants to fight in his hometown in Oakland? Is his adopted family city, Las Vegas?
“I don’t care about this place,” said Lomachenko. “I don’t care. I will go there as long as the belts are threatened.”
What if he says, “I want a rematch clause”?
“Of course. I will be ready for each of his conditions.”
Many warriors talk about it. Actually, most of them. And most of them lie, otherwise sport would not be in a balanced state in which it is located. However, I don’t think Lomachenko is lying. Never about this.
None of the arrows is not popular for him. He comes from a long dismissal, in which the training was far from typical. It’s 11 years older than Haney. It is diminutive for division, while Haney crashes at the seams. What’s more, Lomachenko lost his aura of invincibility over two years ago, when Teofimo Lopez defeated him. But here is a really extraordinary introduction, at least for a warrior:
“Let me explain,,” said Lomachenko. “He is the undisputed champion. He is a party. [Gervonta] Davis or [Ryan] Garcia or Shakur [Stevenson]. “
We really can’t argue with it. In the meantime, however, Jamaine Ortiz, which – although no Haney – is, like most perspectives of Lomachenko opponents, larger and younger and longer.
So why orthosis?
“Because he is youthful and undefeated and technically qualified boxer. I earlier with him” – for the unanimous decision of Lomachenko over Richard Commey – “and it was not straightforward.”
Lomachenko was not among those like me who surprised that Ortiz defeated Jamel Herring.
“I understand what Ortiz can do: good combinations, very quickly. He felt the distance and worked very well on his feet. He understands boxing.”
This is the highest compliment of Lomachenko, which is a warrior. It means understanding the basic elements of distance, time, mental fortitude. It means understanding the fight as a sport, not war.
One might think that after meeting his title he blew up the main ESPN event and watching his brother lost on live television, Keyshawn Davis could make sense to sit and close. But no – instead, he decided behind the scenes a full clown and attack Nahir Albright.
It was not balmy adrenaline. It was a deliberate move. Albright has just handed Kelvin Davis his first professional loss-arranged in the decision on the pure majority-he interviewed Marek Kriegel ESPN after the fight with Marek Kriegel. Then Keyshawn comes, freshly refueling the card, walking on Albright With his younger brother KeonPutting the forehead on the face of the guy, and then grabbing him, as if they were going to settle in the parking lot. Safety had to take them off. Albright ended with a apparent tumor on his head.
From Olympians to Clown Act for 48 hours
The whole thing was caught on ESPN cameras. And it was pathetic. The self-proclaimed face of a modern generation resorting to sneaking attacks and budget-friendly intimidation tactics-after the whole event is broken. His brother just lost. He had no fight. And yet he, still trying to be the main character in history, nobody writes about him anymore.
And let’s not forget: Albright defeated Fair Kelvin Davis. Neat. And now Keyshawn wants to rewrite the narrative of his fists behind the curtain? Grow up. Settle in the ring – If You are still allowed in one.
According to Albright, who calmly gave an interview to Marek Kriegel ESPN after defeating Kelvin Davis because of the majority decision, the whole thing began when the Davis brothers – Yes, the plural – I blew up in search of trouble.
“Keyshawn and his younger brother Keon jumped me,” said Albright on the air. “They began to approach me, and one of them put my head to mine and grabbed me. I was to get woven, but my team and everyone caught Keyshawn and everything.”
Timothy Bradley said it’s best: “His supplies just fell”
Bradley did not stop the ESPN transmission. Prosto said he was a fan of the Davis brothers- was. The time has gone through. “Do you see how you don’t control your anger? Do you see what will happen?” He said, watching how all the defeat is developing. You rarely see a broadcasting team that has been disgusted on the air. But it was not a boxing incident. It was a crash caught in 4K.
You can’t be another star if you behave like a backbone tyrant. This is not just a bad optics – it is a career reset. And if Keyshawn Davis thinks that after that he will return to the main place, he dreams.
Local cops had to remove Keyshawn from the building. That’s where we are there. From the Olympic buzz to escorted by law enforcement agencies – and for what? Pride? Ego? Jealousy?
Albright said it clear: “We have to do it now … inside the ring, not outside.” And he is right. But don’t be surprised if the next Keyshawna fight is with the commission, not another warrior.
If this is the next great boxing name, sport is in sedate trouble. When a man loses his temperament, belt and a hug of reality within 24 hours, what else is left until the fall?
Słowaki-British perspective of Moses Itaum I former claimant to the title of the world Dillian Whyte are finalizing the agreement to fight on August 16 in Riyadh.
The report in the Ring magazine says that the couple will manage a special event of the Riyadh season, which coincides with the Esports World Championships, meaning a grave spectacle between combat sports and game culture.
For Itauma (12-0, 10 KO), perspectives of the ESPN year in 2024, the fight is a key moment in his juvenile career. The 20-year-old turned to his mixture of power, self-control and pedigree-now has a chance to prove that he is ready for a higher level.
Whyte (31-3, 21 KO), former WBC champion, will provide the most complex test for a juvenile warrior. The veteran returned in December 2024 to defeat Ebenezer Tetteh after seven runes of Slug Fest. The fight was only second in Whyte within two years after he did not pass the drug test before the planned rematch against Anthony Joshua in August 2023.
The intrigue is also intrigue to the rest of the cards set for August 16.
Master WBA Feather Nick Ball (22-0, 13 KO) will defend his title against Australian Sam Goodman (20-0, 8 KO). The Australian, junior featherweight, will escalate by his first opportunity for the title of the world.
A younger lithe duel is also planned between Anthony Cacace (24-1, 9 KO) and Raymond Ford (17-1, 8 KO)
Abdullah Mason promised to steal the program and he provided. The 21-year-old waste defended their airy titles from Zab and Nabf with the dominant stop of the fifth round against Namibia, Jeremia Nakathil on Saturday evening at the Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia.
Mason-Nakathila was raised to the main event on Friday evening after Keyshawn Davis did not bring importance, allowing the native debut Cleveland.
Mason (19-0, 17 KO) began with measuring his right hand distance before connecting to straight left.
Nakathila (26-5, 21 KO) tried to connect with his characteristic right hand, but Southpaw found his rhythm through three and four missiles, reducing the left hand and the right hook before he ripped off the body.
Nakathila survived the fourth, even though he was stunned by Mason many times. Nevertheless, the ring doctor waved him at the beginning of the fifth.
Mason said: “It was a great fight. I knew he had some power, so I wasn’t in a hurry and crashed him.”
“We want to reach these titles. Everything you can work out, I’m ready to make it happen.”
After meeting Keyshawna for WBO, Mason is in the best position to challenge the next championship.
Keyshawn Davis pulls “punk b ****” movement on Nahir Albright
Card results
Intrarethewight: Olympian in the USA Tiger Johnson (16-0, 7 Kos) won his second victory of the year, defeating Janelson Boczeica (17-4-1, 11 KO) through a developing 10-round decision. Johnson dictated the conditions of the fight, forcing the sides to perform so that he could counteract. The sides became frustrated and tried to break Johnson, but to no avail. Johnson continued to work outside and landed from time to time. Results: 100-90, 97-93 and 98-92.
Average weight: Troy Isley (15-0, 5 KO) has retained its title with a 10-round verdict in the ethoundi case Michel William (16-2, 12 KO). Isley connected more in the stock exchanges and swayed William with a combination. William, however, was slippery and did not allow Isley to operate. Results: 98-92 and 96-94 2x.
Mikey Williams
Intrarethewight: Six months after the debut Pro at Scope Arena, Keon Davis (4-0, 3 KO) won the knockout of the second round against the previously disturbing Michael Velez (3-1, 2 KO). Davis rose over Velez and used his immense frame to neutralize Velez’s crime, then fired precise meters, including the left to the liver, which ended the fight. Detailed time: 2:22.
Average weight: Olympian Dominican Republic Cedeño (12-0-1, 11 KO) increased his series of knockout to five, noting TKO in the fifth round over Abela Ecuador (18-4-1, 9 KO). Working from the disciplined high guard, Cedeño exerted a constant pressure and landed a series of immaculate left hands, which swaying at the end of the round. The face then withdrew on the stool.
Lightweight: Deric Davis (7-0, 7 KO), who trains at Barry Hunter from the nearby Headbangers boxing gym in Washington, was the author of Nokaut in the second round against Naheem Parker (5-3, 2 KO). The meter left on the ribs dropped Parker on 10-dots at the end of the round.
Cruiser Wweight: Patrick O’Connor (1-0, 1 KO) entered the paid ranks tonight tonight, punishing Marcus Smith (2-2, 2 KO) to the body on the way to the second round. Detailed time: 2:03.
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