Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasiliy Anatolyevich Lomachenko, also spelled Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko and born in 1988, is a Ukrainian professional boxer who competed between 2013 and 2024 and announced a comeback for 2027. He has held world championships in three weight classes, including the WBO featherweight title from 2014 to 2016, the WBO super featherweight title from 2016 to 2018, the unified WBA Super, WBC, WBO and Ring magazine lightweight titles from 2018 to 2020, and the IBF lightweight title from 2024 to 2025. As an amateur he won consecutive Olympic golds in 2008 and 2012 and consecutive World Championship golds in 2009 and 2011, with a record of 396 wins and 1 loss. He tied the record for winning a world title in the fewest professional fights, doing it in his third. The Ring and the Boxing Writers Association of America named him Fighter of the Year in 2017.