Loma Leads Usyk & Gyozdyk in Ukranian Takeover of HBO Boxing

B"H

WBO Super Featherweight Title Fight

Scheduled 12 Rounds

Champion

Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1-0, 5KO)

vs

Challenger

Jason Sosa (20-1-4, 15KO)

MGM National Harbor

Oxon Hill, Maryland
HBO World Champion Boxing

The green yet superlatively talented and other-worldly hyped prospect Mr. Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1, 5 KO) will defend his WBO Super Featherweight crown against the well seasoned (oregano? basil?) Jersey pizza cook and solidly tough pug Mr. Jason Sosa (20-1-4, 15 KO). Lomachenko is heavily favored here in this facing of a ready to rumble opponent. Sosa is on a nice streak, with a pair of noteworthy triumphs in 2016 behind him  -- at the expenses of first Javier Fortuna then Stephen Smith. Vasyly Lomchenko needs this test aced then a couple levels more; then I'll stop rolling my eyes at pound-for-pound lists featuring his vaulted name. Taking nothing from, and paying all respect to, his nigh heavenly potential.

The opening stanza in the apparent Ukrainian hot-bed that is Oxon Hill, MD shows Mr. Lomachenko disrupting any Sosa rhythm preemptively via a constant variance of angles and heights. Sosa gets knocked back by a Lomachenko left, and never doth do pay him back. Round two sees Sosa wanting to get close and the Ukranian not allowing, instead spinning off into other angles and heights and oy vey iz mir, gentlepersons. At stanza's end, Lomachenko has Sosa standing in a very small portion of the ring via very fast feet and hands. The third sees Lomacheko throwing even greater amounts of combinations of varying ambitions. Meanwhile at round's end Sosa throws a good-looking doubling up of left hooks... each which wiff.

Lomachenko starts the fourth stanza by peppering peppering peppering and ends it thatta way, too. The angle and the height thing, too. Sosa at best almost lands a big punch, yells after Lomachenko's turned back at the bell. His corner works on some swelling twixt rounds. He's starting to look like the moon hit his eye like a big pizza pie. But this ain't amore, gentlepersons. Fifth sees an Enswell'd Sosa survive a beard-check early. Lomachenko then freezes him with a hook to the challah-basket. This is beginning to appear as one of them times a big heart gets ya hurt, perchance. Lomachenko's previous dance partner,Walters -- was smarter, less bravado. Sixth starts the familiar Lomachenko taunting of pantomiming Sosa misses and peppering him in return as he doth do. Nice stamina, Lomachenko has, to keep this pace going. I am made to realize I do not type fast enough for a Lomachenko fight. I'm not sure I can talk fast 'nuff either. Sosa is taking a heck of a beating now. Interesting, when Lomachenko taunts an opponent, it's "personality." I would like to slowly discuss that shortly.

Seventh stanza shows us more Loma pitter-patter setting up body shots, mainly. Impressive is that Sosa can't even resort to the brawler tactics I foresaw him failing at. Eighth: For all the lop-sidedness there is no fear of Sosa being hurt more than the casual blood-lusting fan would willingly whoop at. Violence ya can take to the bank. Lomachenko slows in the eighth, but lands more meaningfully. Now both get a bit dirty and the ref hobbles in from atop the bell tower. Twixt stanzas, Sosa's corner-man/father states he will protect his son and stop the fight if he doesn't see anything. The son pledges a knock out. Another note to power such as Lomachenko's -- whilst not bombastic, often it's just his type of accumulative fighters that do more damage in the end. A single and thunderous hay-maker is oft more humane. Leather gets exchanged and many if not all of Sosa's misses. Lomachenko lands less pitter-patters in favor of bolder shots. All told, good round for Jason Sosa's dad to stop it on.

LOMACHENKO 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 x

JASON SOSA       09 09 10 09 09 09 09 09 09 x

Official time of TKO at end of round 9 for winner Vasyl Lomachenko.

UNDERCARD

My scorecard:
OLEKSANDR USYK (11-0-0, 10KO)   10 10 09 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 = 119
MICHAEL HUNTER (12-0-0, 8KO)     09 09 10 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 08 = 108
Official scorecard: 117-110 UD Olekdandr Usyk.
Usyk don't only have a lotta tools; he has many tool boxes.

My scorecard:
OLEKSANDR GYOZDYK (12-0-0, 10KO) 10 10 x
YUNIESKI GONZALEZ (18-2-0, 14KO)     09 09 x
Official time of TKO 2:55 of round 3 for winner Oleksandr Gyozdyk.
I daresay the evening's most impressive turn.

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