Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. Luke Campbell

Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. Luke Campbell was a professional boxing match contested on 31 August 2019, for the WBC, WBA, WBO and The Ring lightweight championship.

[1] Following his lopsided defeat at the hands of welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr., Mikey Garcia opted to vacate his WBC lightweight title, rather than face his mandatory challenger, Luke Campbell.

[8] The first of the PPV bouts saw Savannah Marshall score a 5th round TKO victory over Daniele Bastieri, before Joe Cordina retained British and Commonwealth lightweight titles against fellow Welshman Gavin Gwynne and Joshua Buatsi stopped Ryan Ford.

However Edwards's promoter Eddie Hearn, instantly appealed to the WBC, speaking in the aftermath would describe the knockout shot as "so late it was next week".

[10][11] After a cagey first of couple of rounds, where Campbell used both his reach and height advantage to keep Lomachenko off balance and at a distance, before the champion found the mark with some sharp combinations.

[16] Former world champion Carl Frampton, speaking as part of the BBC Radio 5 Live commentary team, was among those impressed by Campbell effort saying "I never expected that.