Last night at an HBO boxing main event, Vasyl Lomachenko landed a sensational right hook to the chin of Rocky Martinez that landed clean and put an end to the fight and gave Lomachenko one of the best boxing knockouts of the year.
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One-punch knockouts usually get the nod when we think about the year’s best stoppage wins, but two-punch combinations can be a formula for beauty and brutality.
On Saturday night at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York, live on HBO’s Boxing After Dark, Vasyl Hi-Tech Lomachenko (6-1, 4 KO) scored the biggest win of his professional career—and he did it with style. He captured the WBO super featherweight title when he punctuated a dominant performance with a devastating KO finish.
The 28-year-old Ukrainian stopped 33-year-old Puerto Rican champion Roman Rocky Martinez (29-3-3) with a sizzling left-uppercut-right-hook combination that sent the latter sprawling.Rocky Martinez
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About Vasyl Lomachenko
Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko born 17 February 1988)is a Ukrainian professional boxer who currently holds the WBO featherweight and junior lightweight titles. Known for his excellent hand speed, timing, accuracy and lateral movement, Lomachenko is generally regarded as one of the most skilled fighters in boxing today as well as arguably the greatest amateur boxer of all time. As an amateur he won a silver medal at the 2007 World Championships, a gold medal at both the 2009 and 2011 World Championships, and a gold medal at both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
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