Dominant Loma stops Kambosos in 11th for vacant IBF lightweight title
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Vasiliy Lomachenko may be 36 years old and was coming off a one-year layoff and a close decision loss, but the former pound-for-pound king once against has a world title after a performance that harkened back to his prime days as the pound-for-pound king.
Lomachenko looked as good as he has in years as he started fast and never let up in a one-sided 11th-round knockout of George Kambosos to win the vacant IBF lightweight title in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on Saturday night at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, where it was Sunday afternoon.
A sold-out crowd of 14,147, a record for a sports event at RAC Arena, turned out to cheer on Australia’s Kambosos but by the later rounds there was near silence as Lomachenko beat, battered, bloodied and outclassed his fellow former unified lightweight champion en route two 11th-round knockdowns on body shots in the dominating stoppage victory.
“It was almost like turning back the clock because this was a vintage Loma performance,” Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said at the post-fight news conference. “And I really believe that if he’s gonna continue in the sport he’s gonna be even more dominant in the next few fights than he has been.”
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