On the night of June 27, Ukrainian boxer Vasily Lomachenko fought a lightweight fight against Japanese Masayoshi Nakatani. The fight took place at the Virgin Hotel arena in Las Vegas (USA) and ended with Vasily's victory by TKO in the ninth round.

The beginning of the battle turned out to be difficult for the Ukrainian due to the strong dissection that he had after colliding with his opponent's heads.

Nevertheless, Vasily was able to recover from his injury and with each round began to build up his advantage in the ring..

In the fifth round, Lomachenko knocked the Japanese down, but could not finish off the opponent, since he simply did not have time for this..

In the future, Vasily continued beating Masayoshi, which in the ninth round was stopped by the judge. Nakatani was barely on his feet by that time..

The Japanese became the biggest rival in Vasily's career in terms of size. Masayoshi's height is 182 centimeters.

33-year-old Lomachenko won his 15th victory (11 - by knockout) in the professional ring. There are 2 defeats in his passive.

Nakatani, 32, lost for the second time. On account of his 19 wins (13 - by KO).