Join Bloody Elbow for coverage of Friday night’s Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ telecast, as reigning WBA and WBO lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs) takes on England’s Anthony Crolla (34-6-3, 13 KOs) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
Is this a competitive fight on paper? Absolutely not. Crolla is a good fighter and former WBA champion himself. But he’s a humongous underdog as the WBA’s mandatory challenger, and he doesn’t figure to be too much trouble for the Ukrainian star. The expectation is we’ll see Lomachenko twice more in 2019 in much bigger fights, including a unification bout vs.