Vasiliy Lomachenko, who faces Luke Campbell on Saturday, is regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world but even he is not immune to boxing’s deadly realities‘Boxing is a brutal sport,” Vasiliy Lomachenko says quietly as, on a beautiful day on a sunlit terrace in London, he considers how a fighter can lose his life in the ring. Moments earlier his arms had been spread wide on the back of a sofa so I could see the Olympic rings and the words
Beijing 2008 and
London 2012 tattooed into his skin in honour of the two gold medals he won as an amateur. They are a reminder that Lomachenko has one of the greatest records in the history of amateur
boxing – having won 396 fights and lost just one.
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