Sports : Vasiliy Lomachenko binds together lightweight titles with unanimous decision win over Jose Pedraza .

Lomachenko adds more gold to his collection as he continues his greatness

Vasiliy Lomachenko began his lightweight title unification session with Jose Pedraza looking each piece like a contender making his arrival from a seven-month cutback and shoulder medical procedure. He finished it demonstrating indeed why he's the pound-for-pound lord. While he some way or another couldn't get Pedraza (25-2, 12 KOs) out of there regardless of a fierce eleventh round, Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs) earned a consistent choice by a wide edge to bind together the WBA and WBO lightweight titles. 

The battle began gradually, with the two warriors picking to circle and hurl out contemptible punches with an end goal to make sense of their rivals' course of action. The following couple of rounds pursued a comparative example, however not exactly to the degree of the opening minutes. While it prompted a nearby battle, and a troublesome one to score on occasion. Lomachenko was continually getting the all the more telling shots - more often than not a straight left hand. 

As the battle advanced, however, Lomachenko kept on expanding his work rate and kept on taking control. That finished in a totally splendid eleventh round. Straight lefts, blends, fierce uppercuts ... Lomachenko had everything filling in as he transformed Pedraza into a punching pack for the majority of the round. Before its finish, Pedraza had by one way or another endure yet was thumped down twice. 

The twelfth and last round wasn't so energizing, as Pedraza by and by did what's needed to get to the last chime, however it was just an ethical triumph. There was little uncertainty who had won the battle, particularly after the eleventh round, and judges' scorecards demonstrated that. 

So what's next for Lomachenko? In the wake of binding together the WBA and WBO lightweight belts, he had just a single name at the forefront of his thoughts amid his post-battle talk with: Mikey Garcia. The undefeated Garcia at present holds the WBC lightweight belt, yet his center is somewhere else. In only a couple of months, Garcia will venture up to welterweight for a tremendous standoff with Errol Spence Jr. 

"Obviously, obviously I need two additional belts, and possibly one year from now we could make a battle with Mikey Garcia," Lomachenko said. 

A Lomachenko-Garcia matchup would be similarly as, if not more captivating than Garcia's battle with Spence, but rather it stays to be checked whether Garcia will move down to lightweight after that battle.

Lomachenko vs Pedraza card results :

Vasiliy Lomachenko (c) def. Jose Pedraza (c) via unanimous decision (119-107, 117-109, 117-109)
Emanuel Navarrete (c) def. Isaac Dogboe via unanimous decision (116-112, 116-112, 115-113)