5. Vasyl Lomachenko RTD 7 Nicholas Walters – 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nYsXQ7ZDcs
‘The Axe-Man’ Nicholas Walters was an undefeated fighter, he had forged quite a resume and was a former titleholder in the featherweight division, the after knocking out Nonito Donaire in 2014.
Lomachenko’s precision, accuracy and relentless assault allowed him to seize a foothold over the first six rounds with his movement. Noticing his opponent was beginning to wane, Lomachenko threw more combination punches in the sixth which left Walters visibly shaken.
Lomachenko won the fight after Walters retired on his stool at the end of the seventh round. Upon returning to his corner, Walters got up and walked to referee Tony Weeks, where he reiterated twice he did not want to continue.
A lot of boos followed the confirmation of the fight result as Walters seemed to back himself up for not returning for round 7, blaming his inactivity in the ring as the reason for his loss like a sore loser looking for excuses.
4. Vasyl Lomachenko MD 12 Gary Russell Jr – 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY45FvUXGBQ
The fight took place on June 22 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Lomachenko defeated Gary Russell Jr. via twelve-round majority decision to win the vacant WBO featherweight title.
Judge Lisa Giampa scored the fight a 114-114 draw, but judges Max DeLuca and Pat Russell scored the fight 116-112 in favour of Lomachenko.
Lomachenko used his power and swift skills to maintain control of the fight until the final bell. Lomachenko began to dish out sustained hurt on Russell Jr. more in the later rounds with power shots.
Russell Jr. landed only 10% of his punches thrown, with a lot of combinations being missed or blocked. In doing so he joined Saensak Muangsurin as the only other boxer to have won a world title in the quickest amount of time since turning professional, accomplishing the feat in just his third professional bout.
3. Vasyl Lomachenko KO 9 Gamalier Rodriguez – 2015
Rodriguez earned the title shot after knocking out Martin Cardona. The fight was announced to take place on May 2, 2015, on the under-card of Mayweather-Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Prior to the fight, Rodriguez was on a 17-fight winning streak dating back to 2010, where the fight resulted in a first-round technical draw.
Top Rank announced before the fight that Lomachenko had signed a five-year contract extension. On fight night, Lomachenko retained his WBO title against Rodriguez via a ninth-round KO victory.
Lomachenko’s speed and precision were too much for Rodriguez, who took a knee twice in the fight, once in the seventh and again in the ninth, which ended the bout.
He was also docked a point by the referee in the fifth round for a low blow. Lomachenko landed 227 of 586 punches thrown (39%) compared to Rodriguez who landed only 55 of 285 (19%).
2. Vasyl Lomachenko KO 10 Romulo Koasicha – 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGWe-GDpjFw
The fight took place on November 7, 2015, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Paradise, Nevada.
He overwhelmed, dominated and stopped Koasicha in the tenth round on a body shot. In the post-fight interview, Lomachenko told of how he wanted to put on a good show,
“I was just having fun in there, “If I really wanted to knock him out, I would have done it earlier. I was having a good time.”
Lomachenko earned a career-high $750,000 for the fight and out-landed Koasicha by a staggering 259 punches.
1. Vasyl Lomachenko KO 5 Roman Martinez – 2015
Following a third successful defence, Lomachenko, still the reigning WBO featherweight champion decided to move up a weight to super featherweight limit of 130 lbs to challenge Román ‘Rocky’ Martínez (29-2-3, 17 KOs) for his WBO super featherweight title on June 11, 2016, at the Madison Square Garden Theater.
Martinez was coming off a draw against Orlando Salido in September 2015, after he controversially defeated him in their first fight in April 2015 for the WBO title.
Lomachenko became the fastest boxer to win a world title in two weight divisions knocking out Martinez in the 5th round of the world title fight. Lomachenko dominated the fight from the start with superior footwork, hand speed and slick punching from different angles. According to CompuBox research, Lomachenko out-landed Martinez 87 to 34.
‘Loma’ showed his ability to improvise and adjust in this knockout sequence, don’t forget he was a southpaw but initiated the knockout sequence with a lead left uppercut before demolishing Martinez with a right hook from out of left field.
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