Vasyl Lomachenko – TJ Dillashaw
Once one of the most successful amateur boxers of all-time, with a staggering 396 wins, Vasyl Lomachenko is nowadays the unified lightweight champion of the world and is ranked No.1 on ESPN’s pound-for-pound rankings.
TJ Dillashaw had a chance to spar with Lomachenko in 2018 while he was still the UFC’s bantamweight champion and it proved to be an eye-opening experience for the talented striker to go up against a true boxing great.
“Man, I think he’s untouchable,” Dillashaw told FightHubTV, joking that Lomanchenko was living in the real-life Matrix and “could tell what I was going to throw before I even threw it.”
Dillashaw explained later that things like Lomachenko’s patience and calmness in the ring, together with the way he sometimes landed lighter punches to set up harder ones were things he was looking to incorporate into his game, though he also stated his belief that the boxer’s ability to see things in slow-motion was a natural gift rather than something that could be learned.
