LOS ANGELES -- Junior lightweight world titleholder Vasyl Lomachenko has his eyes on being the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world -- and he's not far away from that lofty status -- but to keep his train moving in that direction he had to take care of challenger and big underdog Miguel Marriaga.
No problem. At all.
Lomachenko absolutely toyed with Marriaga, knocking him down twice and winning by one-sided seventh-round TKO before 4,102 on Saturday night in the main event of the Top Rank ESPN card at the Microsoft Theater at LA Live.
The fight came to an end when Marriaga's corner mercifully stopped the fight after a brutal seventh round in which Marriaga took extreme punishment.