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瓦西里·罗玛琴科对德文·哈尼说:“你们还没有和任何人打过仗，我在等着你们这些懦夫。”
从瓦西里·罗马琴科(Vasiliy Lomachenko)从他的宝座上跌落的那一刻起，批评之声就如波浪般涌来。
2020年10月中旬，洛玛琴科和特奥菲莫·洛佩兹(Teofimo Lopez)在所有轻弹球的较量中一决雌雄。很多人认为，这将是又一场常规的胜利。
看到罗玛琴科倒下，几乎每个人都感到惊讶。但更令人震惊的是，除了少数几次采访之外，他是如何在败选后消失的。WBC轻量级冠军德文·哈尼(Devin Haney)是那些想知道洛玛琴科去哪了的人之一。
“洛玛他妈的在哪儿?”哈尼在他的推特上说。
尽管罗马琴科在推特上有近20万粉丝，但他很少使用社交媒体。不过，这一次，他花了些时间和哈尼谈了谈自己的私事。
“我在这里!”Lomachenko说。“我在等你们这些懦夫决定一场真正的战斗，而不是在推特上。”
对哈尼来说，在他短暂的职业生涯中，同样的话他听了一遍又一遍。他的天赋是显而易见的，但在此之前，他争取过的那些名字都没有给人留下深刻印象。这位拉斯维加斯居民呼吁与瑞安·加西亚，杰文塔·戴维斯，特奥菲莫·洛佩兹，当然还有瓦西里·洛马琴科进行比赛。
然而，不管他喊得多大声，让任何知名拳手面对他，他们似乎都忽视了他。在没有赢得过任何重大胜利的情况下，洛玛琴科确信哈尼只是只会叫不咬人。
“等待是你最喜欢的动作，”洛玛琴科继续说。“你还没有和任何人打过架。”
具有讽刺意味的是，哈尼曾经是洛马琴科获得WBC冠军时必须面对的挑战者。尽管22岁的罗玛琴科打算面对他，WBC主席毛里西奥·苏莱曼却另有想法，他剥夺了罗玛琴科的冠军头衔，并授予他“特许球员”的称号，这是一个新的，球迷们仍在试图弄明白的术语。
随着WBC头衔的空缺，哈尼，谁是临时的腰带持有者，然后被提升为全面冠军。从那以后，他又打败了老将阿尔弗雷多·圣地亚哥和久经衰退的前多赛区冠军尤利奥基斯·甘博亚。
他可能在每一轮比赛中都赢了，但罗玛琴科似乎并没有被打动。事实上，像洛佩兹这样的拳手说，哈尼只是一个电子邮件冠军，自从他的头衔开始时，他收到一封电子邮件，通知他已经成为一个完整的腰带持有者。
帮助他让怀疑者闭嘴的可能是前多赛区冠军豪尔赫·利纳雷斯。双方阵营目前都在为4月份的冲突进行谈判。
至于罗马琴科，他似乎盯上了哈尼。然而，这些计划可能会被迫等待，因为他的推广人鲍勃·阿鲁姆已经表示，他计划让罗马琴科和顶级竞争者中谷正芳匹配，中谷正芳刚刚出人意料地战胜了一度被高度看好的前景菲利克斯·维尔德霍。
The moment Vasiliy Lomachenko fell from his pound-for-pound throne, the criticism has come in waves.
In what many believed would be another routine win, Lomachenko found Teofimo Lopez a much more complex puzzle to solve when the two battled it out with all of the lightweight marbles on the line in mid-October 2020.
Watching Lomachenko fall was a surprise to just about everyone. But even more of a shock is, outside of a handful of interviews, how he has virtually disappeared since the defeat. Amongst those wondering where Lomachenko has gone, is WBC lightweight champion, Devin Haney.
“Where the f*ck is Loma at?” Said Haney on his Twitter account.
Despite having close to 200,000 thousand followers on Twitter, Lomachenko seldom uses social media. This time around though, he took the time to address Haney on his own personal account.
“I’m here!” Said Lomachenko. “I’m waiting for you cowards to decide on a real fight and not on Twitter.”
For Haney, he’s heard the same thing over and over throughout the course of his short career. The talent is obvious but the names he’s fought up until this point have been underwhelming. The Las Vegas resident has called for matchups against Ryan Garcia, Gervonta Davis, Teofimo Lopez and of course, Vasiliy Lomachenko.
Yet, no matter how loud he screams for any of the big-name fighters to face him, they have all seemingly ignored him. With no marquee wins under his belt, Lomachenko is convinced that Haney is simply all bark but no bite.
“Waiting is your favorite action,” continued Lomachenko. “You still haven’t fought with anyone.”
Ironically enough, Haney was once the mandatory challenger to face Lomachenko when he held the WBC title. Although the 22-year-old planned on facing him, WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman had other ideas in mind as he stripped Lomachenko of his title and instead, gifted him with the Franchise tag, a new and still confusing term fans are trying to wrap their heads around.
With the WBC title now vacant, Haney, who was the interim belt holder, was then elevated to full champion. Since then, he’s gone on to defeat journeymen Alfredo Santiago and the long-faded former multiple division champion Yuriokis Gamboa.
He may won have every single round against both fighters but Lomachenko doesn’t appear to be impressed. In fact, fighters such as Lopez have said that Haney is nothing more than an email champion since his title reign began with an email notifying him that he had become a full belt holder.
Helping him in his efforts to shut up the doubters could be former multiple division champion Jorge Linares. Both camps are currently locked in negotiations for an April clash.
As for Lomachenko, he appears to have his eyes on Haney. Those plans however, could be forced to wait as promoter Bob Arum has already said that he plans on matching up Lomachenko with top contender Masayoshi Nakatani who is coming off an upset win over once highly touted prospect Felix Verdejo. |
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