‘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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Written by Donald McRae
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/aug/30/vasiliy-lomachenko-bout-against-luke-campbell under the title “Vasyl Lomachenko: ‘Max was a very good person. But it’s the life we all live as fighters’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
