This Lomachenko World Record Will Never Be Forgotten
During his career, Vasily Lomachenko scored 11 early victories, but most of them ended due to technical skills, footwork in the ring, strong blows to the body of the opponent or refusal to continue the fight.
But there is one knockout in the collection of the Ukrainian, special for Vasily - it was the best end of the fight for all time.
It was a fight against Roman Martinez!
This knockout was so cool that Vasily could not contain his emotions and did a back flip right after the referee started the countdown.
But first things first…
This meeting took place on the night of June 12, 2016. This was the debut of Vasily Lomachenko in the super featherweight division.
The fight, which was broadcast by HBO, was the main fight of the evening, for the first time in the career of a Ukrainian boxer, who had previously appeared on the undercard of title fights. Lomachenko's fee amounted to a record $850,000 for him.
The WBO belt was at stake, and the opponent was the world champion in the second featherweight weight - Puerto Rican Roman Martinez.
During his 16-year professional career, Roman Martinez had 17 title fights, lost twice and drew three times. He never gave up and each time, again rose to the top of the world rankings in the first lightweight.
In the last two fights, Roman fought with the Mexican Orlando Salido, from whom Vasily Lomachenko suffered his first defeat (March 1, 2014 in the USA). Martinez's first duel with Salido ended in victory for the Puerto Rican on points, and Roman became a three-time world champion. The second meeting was reduced to a draw.
The victory over Salido gave Martinez the basis for a number of self-confident statements ahead of the fight with Lomachenko.