Vasyl Lomachenko is a man in a hurry to get to the top, but he will need to do more than win his next fight to be regarded as boxing’s undisputed pound-for-pound No. 1.
After only nine professional fights, Lomachenko is already a two-weight world titleholder and No. 3 in the latest ESPN pound-for-pound rankings.
Some argue — ESPN boxing analyst Teddy Atlas among them — that the California-based Ukrainian should be top of the pile, ahead of the likes of unified light heavyweight titlist Andre Ward (No. 1) and unified middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin (No. 2).
