everal years ago, local boxer Ryno Liebenberg remarked that Vasiliy Lomachenko was the best fighter he had ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got it all, he\u2019s impossible to beat,\u201d said the former SA champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lomachenko has come on since, winning a world championship in the fewest professional fights (three) and becoming a three-weight champion in his 12thfight. All but one of his bouts has been for a championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two-time Olympic champion, who had 396 amateur fights with a single defeat, this weekend faces 2012 Olympic gold medallist Luke Campbell for the WBA \u201csuper\u201d, WBC and WBO lightweight belts in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The action will be broadcast live on SuperSport 5 from 21:00 on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s a stacked card overall, also featuring Alexander Povetkin vs Hughie Fury, Charlie Edwards vs Julio Cesar Martinez for Edwards\u2019 WBC flyweight title, plus Joshua Buatsi vs Ryan Ford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lomachenko-Campbell is likely Loma\u2019s most intriguing match at the weight given that Campbell is taller and has a greater reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ukrainian agrees that Campbell represents a big challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGuys are bigger than me, they have a bigger reach, they are taller. It is harder. I don\u2019t think about knockouts. I just get in the ring and do my boxing. If I can, I will take it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI can\u2019t speak English easily so I can\u2019t open my personality in English. I can\u2019t be a superstar but I can be the best boxer in history \u2014 this is my goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
everal years ago, local boxer Ryno Liebenberg remarked that Vasiliy Lomachenko was the best fighter he had ever seen. \u201cHe\u2019s got it all, he\u2019s impossible to beat,\u201d said the former SA champion. Lomachenko has come on since, winning a world championship in the fewest professional fights (three) and becoming a three-weight champion in his 12thfight.… Continue reading Boxing’s Quiet Superstar Live On SuperSport<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-supersport","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}