Vasyl Lomachenko, who face Luke Campbell on Saturday, is regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world but even he is not immune to boxing’s deadly realities
‘Boxing is a brutal sport,” Vasiliy Lomachenko says quietly as, on a beautiful day on a sunlit terrace in London, he considers how a fighter can lose his life in the ring. Moments earlier his arms had been spread wide on the back of a sofa so I could see the Olympic rings and the words Beijing 2008 and London 2012 tattooed into his skin in honour of the two gold medals he won as an amateur.
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