{"id":108306,"date":"2019-09-01T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/01\/vasiliy-lomachenko-outpoints-luke-campbell-to-add-wbc-lightweight-title\/"},"modified":"2019-09-01T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T23:19:09","slug":"vasiliy-lomachenko-outpoints-luke-campbell-to-add-wbc-lightweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=108306","title":{"rendered":"Vasiliy Lomachenko outpoints Luke Campbell to add WBC lightweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Ukrainian wins comfortably on scorecards\u2022 Lomachenko now holds WBA, WBO and WBC beltsIt is boxing\u2019s oldest adage that a good big man always beats a good little one. But tell that to Vasiliy Lomachenko. The brilliant Ukrainian defied a large height and reach disadvantage to add the WBC world lightweight title to his WBA and WBO belts with a gaping points victory over Luke Campbell. Most boxing experts rate Lomachenko as the world\u2019s best pound-for-pound fighter. Watching the master at work it was again hard to argue.But on a night of jangled nerves and jumbled memories Campbell did himself proud with a brilliant and courageous performance. Two judges made it 119-108, with another giving it 118-109, which seemed a touch harsh on the 31-year-old from Hull. Certainly the crowd thought so. As the fighters embraced at the end 20,000 people at the 02 Arena stood up and chanted: \u201cThere\u2019s only one Luke Campbell.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/aug\/31\/vasiliy-lomachenko-luke-campbell-wbc-lightweight-title\" target=\"_blank\">Vasiliy Lomachenko outpoints Luke Campbell to add WBC lightweight title<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Ukrainian wins comfortably on scorecards\u2022 Lomachenko now holds WBA, WBO and WBC beltsIt is boxing\u2019s oldest adage that a good big man always beats a good little one. But tell that to Vasiliy Lomachenko. The brilliant Ukrainian defied a large height and reach disadvantage to add the WBC world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}