Paris (AFP)

Regarded as the best boxer of the day, all categories combined, the phenomenal and spectacular Vasyl Lomachenko has all the arguments to outclass the English Luke Campbell and add a third world lightweight belt to his record on Saturday in London.

Holder of WBA and WBO titles, the 31-year-old Ukrainian (13 wins, including 10 by KO, 1 loss) has no equal on the boxing planet, amazed by his dazzling ascent.

Olympic champion 2008 (feathers) and 2012 (light) and true terror in the amateur ranks, "The Matrix" took only three years to make a name for itself among professionals, capturing three world crowns in three categories different (feathers, super feather, light), after only 12 fights. Never seen.

The man who has been dubbed by heavyweight legend Mike Tyson, also known as the "Picasso" of boxing, does not want to drag on in a ring, unlike Filipino Manny Pacquaio or Floyd Mayweather of the United States. these last years. Promised, juror: in case of winning the WBC title at the O2 Arena on Saturday, he will then attack that of the IBF, held by the Ghanaian Richard Commey, for a reunification fight before possibly hang up gloves.

"I've been training since I was 4 years old, this week at the BBC, this stakhanovist, able to swim 10 km in the open sea or to resist for 4 minutes 30 underwater apnea. it all comes to an end, I want to be able to hunt and fish every day, my goal is to have the 4 lightweight titles, and then I do not know what will happen. "

"It's one of my dreams to see my name associated with boxing history," he said, "which is why I started a pro career and fought for a belt. world in my second fight, I'm doing everything to leave a mark. "

What can Campbell expect in these conditions? The 31-year-old Englishman (20 wins, 16 by KO, 2 losses), Olympic champion in 2012 (roosters), will certainly evolve in front of his audience but a success against Lomachenko would be a huge cataclysm, the same level as the setback conceded by Anthony Joshua against Andy Ruiz in heavyweight.

Campbell does not have the pedigree to withstand the Ukrainian ogre but is convinced he can overthrow the Lomachenko mountain and create the sensation.

"I love challenges," he said, "to be the best I have to beat the best, I'm ready." But "Loma", whose speed of movement is one of the main weapons, is waiting for him.

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