Compared to the UFC, boxing has had a fairly quiet 2020 in terms of big fights during this COVID-19 pandemic. This weekend starts a pretty strong stretch of big boxing matches, and none of them is as big in terms of sheer importance and intrigue as the undisputed lightweight title bout between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez.
Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs) is considered the top pound-for-pound boxer in the world. He’s won two Olympic gold medals and his amateur record was a reported 396-1, and he avenged that one loss twice. You can understand why the Ukrainian wasted no time with the typical slow-rolling of boxing prospects towards the top.