The world champion under version WBO in the second Featherweight champion Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko learned the name of his next opponent.
The President of the promotion company “Top Rank” Bob Arum confirmed the negotiation with a team of Panamanian boxer Hesler Corrales, owns the title of “super champion” WBA in the second Featherweight.
“Lomachenko to fight with Corrales. We will determine a day for the next week, tentatively it will be on 12 November,” said Arum.
The promoter said that the fight Lomachenko – Corrales, will probably show HBO. Official information on the unification match in
the second Featherweight should appear in the next week.
In the ranking of the portal “BoxRec” Corrales in its weight category ranked second, Lomachenko is the fifth. Leading American Jason Sosa.
Corrales on the Pro-ring he had 21 fights and won eight early wins. Their only defeat of the Panamanians suffered in 2009-m year in his second fight after moving to the professionals.
Vasyl Lomachenko in his last fight in June, knocked out the Puerto Rican Roman Martinez and became a world champion in two weight categories. Hesler Corrales in April sensationally knocked out experienced Japanese Takashi Uchiyama.
