Vasiliy Lomachenko dropped Richard Commey with a thud courtesy of a devastating left hook across the chin during the seventh round.
In a flash, he looked over to Commey’s corner and implored them to stop the fight. They didn’t and Lomachenko kept bringing the pain, lasering and connecting on more clean punches Commey’s way.
Again, Loma asked that Commey’s corner end the fight. They refused.
Commey survived the round but was thoroughly outboxed as Lomachenko cruised to a dominating unanimous decision victory at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Judges scored it 119-108, 119-108 and 117-110 all in favor of the Ukrainian. DAZN News had it 119-108 for Lomachenko.
“I saw his situation,” Lomachenko told ESPN following the bout. “It was very hard for him. That’s why I said ‘stop the fight.'”
The 33-year-old Lomachenko (16-2, 11 KOs) didn’t get the stoppage but demoralized Commey with clean punching and connected on a whopping 58 percent of his power shots as well. Lomachenko’s superior hand speed and footwork were on display the entire fight as he was always a step ahead to sting Commey with precise punching and spin him around to stifle him further as part of the overall boxing clinic.
The seventh round knockdown was the punctuation in yet another brilliant performance from the former world champion.
When asked about a possible crack at new unified lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr., Lomachenko jumped at the idea.
“I need this chance,” he said. “If God gives me this chance, I’ll take it.”
And that would include traveling to the champ’s native Australia to scrap it out.
“I’ll go anywhere I need to fight him.”
Credit: DAZN
