The Ukrainian won a difficult victory.
On Sunday, October 30, the battle of the former world champion Vasyl Lomachenko against the American lightweight Jemaine Ortiz.
The 26-year-old American gave a real fight to the Ukrainian, going the entire distance of the fight in 12 rounds.
The first half At the beginning of the fight, young Ortiz looked even a little better, but starting from the seventh round, Lomachenko began to get more and methodically into his opponent, taking the championship rounds and winning a difficult victory by unanimous decision of the judges – 115-113, 116-111, 117-111.
The fight became the main event of the evening of boxing in New York at the Madison Square Garden arena.
There were no championship titles at stake in the fight, and the Ukrainian, after losing to Lopez, fought the third fight in a row without belts.< /p>
34-year-old Vasyl Lomachenko, after the beginning of the full-scale military invasion of Russia, joined the Terrodefense of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Odesa. The Ukrainian boxer did not leave the country for a long time and refused to fight for the title of absolute world champion.
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