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BBC: Vasyl Lomachenko – Is the Ukraine fighter one of the world’s leading sportsmen?

By BBC.

Published May 16, 2018 at 10:38 am

Vasyl Lomachenko of Ukraine looks on prior fighting Miguel Marriaga of Columbia during their WBO World Championship Junior Lightweight title fight at the Microsoft Theater on August 5, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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“This for me is the biggest impact in a sport I have known since Tiger Woods started winning everything.”

Vasyl Lomachenko is just 12 fights into his professional boxing career but the records he surpasses and the style in which he sets them has left BBC Sport’s boxing correspondent Mike Costello searching for superlatives.