Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. George Kambosos Jr POSTFIGHT INTERVIEW - Lomachenko vs. Kambosos KNOCKOUT

Now the matchups and the star falls don't matter once you get over those ropes bro I'm just saying as a Hall of Famer you know better than anyone ooh it's tough ooh three minutes oh wow yeah okay skills, that's what happened midweek, his first matchup lasted over 3 minutes and then Kosas did it again on We It and right now he has precious minutes left to try to answer this L Sports Center riddle that is coming towards you. Lomachenko hopes to sit on the throne as Lightweight King and the first step to get closer. He came so close a year ago against Devin Haney that he thought he had gone his way.

He called it a robbery. Many observers thought he won the fight. It was a great fight. It was a close fight. Haney with some excellent body work with right hands early, Lomachenko came through in the middle and late rounds and then Haney swept the 12th for a small victory. That path from Lomachenko to Undisputed is ridiculous. The fighters he will have to face for the division are loaded. like Shakur Stevenson, I mean, Davis, maybe next week, and there we go, body shot scores the knockdown at 11 as if the eye damage wasn't enough. LMA says take that to the body and now look to close it and him.

Is Lomachenko a

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champion again? Victory against the Australian. I like a year's break. 36 years and still at the top ladies and gentlemen. Can we please have a round of applause for these two world class warriors? The end comes at 2 minutes and 49 seconds. in round 11 your referee stops this contest for the TKO winner who fights from the right corner and the new ABF lightweight world champion V Sil L lumo we invite everyone to turn on the ESPN app for the post-fight

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Well, the good news here about the state of boxing is that Lt. Dan Hennessy, the ring announcer, had no cards to read because Basil Lomachenko took care of Joe Tesur and Tim Bradley, that was just a wonderful performance by Vasil Lenko and now becoming the IBF Lightweight World Champion after almost a year off after coming up short against Devin Haney, he looked absolutely like the best lenko we've seen leading up to this point, look what this one showed night was incredible, it was extraordinary. He was almost like classic Lomachenko, yeah, all the angles you know, being close, close range, making them miss, making them pay.

I mean, the offensive prowess was ridiculous, but let's remember, let's remember now, without taking anything away from his performance tonight, it was fantastic. I enjoyed every minute of Es de Campos, it's George Kosas we're talking about, so some expected this to happen. Some analysts even chose for this to happen. They're sitting at this desk, so choose to make this happen. It's going to be a

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. But I liked his approach, it was you. I know I thought Tom the Ant was going to contribute a little more. I thought he was going to bring a little more to the table.

I thought it might be interesting at first because of the speed and quickness of kosas and I knew it. and i have seen in the past that athletic fighters generally give

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for you tonight we talked on the road after public training nas chenko and you said that in this weight class it is very difficult , how did you do it? make him come back tonight, but it looks like a knockout, no noasa, but you know we trained hard for this moment. I want to thank my opponent very much, he is a strong man, he is a real fighter and of course I want to thank him very much. thank our God Jesus Christ to my team egg is my manager Andre my father Ras of course I want to thank the high ranking people who gave me this opportunity to be champion again Bob Arum and uh of course to all the people who support boxing Blessed God You be the judges, you made sure they weren't going to be a part of this, but you also got off to a fast start, tell me about how you defeated him and your plan for this fight.

My plan wasn't uh. adjust to my opponent this is what I did during a fight and at the end of the round I need to finish strong and in the last three rounds of course I was trying to find his body last time we saw you in July there was a guy different emotion because you promised your son to be the new one today you hear the words and new and to whom do you dedicate this Victory first of all of course this is God second is my father my coach and my family and finally Tank Davis on social media said that Lomachenko is next, it finally looks like he wants to get in the ring with you, it's a fight you want to do next, you know, during my boxing career, I never, ever ran around a fight and, right now, I want to go back to at home I spend time with my family and then I rest a little we can talk about the future we talked at 36 years old this division is about speed and reaction time how did you feel in terms of your speed and reaction time? competing with those Elite Fighters here at 35 I don't feel bad, not bad thank you Vil, we appreciate you and now we have George Campos is here ready to talk to us and George, as always, a valiant effort.

What was different with Basil Lomachenko tonight? Compared to the other great wrestlers you've been in the ring with, like Devin Haney and Tiimo Lopez, hey, look, he's a real champion. You know that he is a sports legend and I thank you for a lot of respect. I never disrespected him. I always gave him respect. and we knew what we were facing, but I did the best I could. I had the best preparation. I gave it my all in camp and unfortunately it wasn't enough today, but you know, it is what it is. I got to the best.

I'm a motor of aor G and Mickey Ward and all these champions step to the best if it's the best you lose that's what adjustments are, we talked about Anton being your new coach, was it too hard to adjust against a fighter? like LMA uh look we started off really good with the body work we landed some really good body shots the first part of the fight was pretty good for us and then he started to get that advantage a little bit and I came back a little bit. a little more, but he is a true champion, this is one of the best fighters in history, you know, so I'm not ashamed.

He wanted to end that fight on his feet. I really did it. I wanted to finish the rounds as always. Yes, but there is no shame in losing to a man like Lenko and it is what it is, I do my best, thank you, thank you for all the support in the United States, true champion, the Cherry Picks, forget the zero, he fought like the Better, we apologize for the language. George Cambos is here now at home once again here in Australia thank you for all the great fights you have given us thank you for the support America you know I love you very much thank you I appreciate you Joe Tim we return it much respect for George Cambos is, yes, fighting against the best and yes, I should love America because no one has capitalized on a single victory more in recent boxing history than George, thanks to that, hey, I respect all fighters.

George cmosis in his last seven fights, you had this loss where he was absolutely demolished, he was completely outclassed tonight, would you agree with that, uh, yeah, completely outclassed and I think he lost again, I think he'll probably come here at least with four or five losses, yeah, so this loss, these last seven fights, the four wins between Those among the seven fights were all split decisions, so Mickey Bay Lee Selby you have to come back tiimo López, life or death with tiimo López with a serious medical condition and off the mat, but he was brave, he won the fight tiimo, you know what? what was going on medically Maxi Hughes was a horrible performance he had I thought he was beaten I thought he was beaten by Maxi Hughes lopsided defeats and completely outclassed by Deon Haney so for those who say he is a one hit wonder you say absolutely a one-hit wonder, but we can say he's a one-hit wonder, but he's done very well, he's made the most of it, but now he's in a position where he's going to have to decide if he wants to be that stepping stone.

You've got hungry young guys that are looking, they'll just look for his name on their resume just to say, hey, I beat this guy, I beat this former champion, so you've got guys like Kean Davis, you've got guys like Abdullah Mason that's going to be behind From him, you know, he will have to choose if he is going to continue fighting because he has done very well and he didn't just take one L this week, he took two Ls because let's talk about his manager, his former pet manager. won $350,000 in a court action to get money let's talk about lenko for a second come on he was on the front foot tonight yeah he was aggressive tonight that's his style so you got a lomachenko but you ain't nothing but a lomachenko we haven't seen. at one point we've seen a lenko who's been a little more controlled by decision win closer fights remember we were talking this week does he still have that dog in him that Clos the show dog in him?

Absolut, we have the answer, oh, absolutely I know who Lomachenko is, if you're wondering, he's still Elite, he's still fighting at the highest level. I mean, look at that performance and I understand who he was facing who he was facing, but he was facing a younger, hungrier fighter. In fact, he flew to Australia to make this two c fight happen to capture that belt right there, but you know, as it goes on, the road gets tougher, it gets tougher and tougher because the competition increases. You know, we talked about Navarete stepping in and him. I will face Binic, yes, next week on ESPN and I, if he wins that fight, I heard that the fight will never happen.