Orlando Salido vs. Vasiliy Lomachenko, was a professional boxing match contested on March 1, 2014, for the vacant WBO featherweight championship.
[2] The fight was televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing as the chief support to Julio César Chávez Jr.'s rematch with Brian Vera.
"[7] Lomachenko lost a controversial split decision[6] to a fighter that failed to make weight who weighed, post weigh-in, 147 lbs., 21 pounds over the fight limit.
The main event of the night saw Julio César Chávez Jr. have an immediate rematch with Brian Vera following his controversial unanimous decision victory in September 2013.
After the fight, Chavez told HBO's Max Kellerman that he next wanted to face WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin.
[10] Lomachenko, for his part, stated he felt the decision was "fair" and accepted blame for not following through with his corner's game plan, promising to learn from the experience and come back stronger.
Salido was also criticized for failing to make weight and some sources stipulated that he did so intentionally, as well as coming back much heavier than Lomachenko on the fight night.