{"id":819011,"date":"2026-10-30T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819011\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:12:08","slug":"unified-champion-tells-lomachenko-take-a-tune-up-before-you-fight-me-i-dont-want-no-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819011\/","title":{"rendered":"Unified champion tells Lomachenko &#8216;take a tune up before you fight me&#8217;: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want no excuses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vasiliy Lomachenko looks set to return and target the undisputed super-featherweight title, but one unified world champion has told the veteran to take a warm-up first, so that he has no excuses if he comes out second best.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Loma\u2019 became a three-division world champion but was always vocal in his ambition to become an undisputed world champion and had that dream crushed when he lost a controversial decision to Devin Haney in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/lomachenko-makes-a-point-stopping-kambosos-jr-to-win-ibf-lightweight-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lomacheko captured the IBF lightweight title the following year with a stoppage victory over George Kambosos<\/a>, but announced his retirement in 2025 before recently U-turning on that decision and announcing his comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, it has become obvious that he is targeting all four of the world titles at 130lbs, three of which are suddenly in the hands of Texas\u2019 O\u2019Shaquie Foster \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/50273970\/oshaquie-foster-routs-emanuel-navarrete-unify-titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">who defeated Emanuel Navarrete on Saturday<\/a> \u2013 and the other being held by Belfast\u2019s Anthony Cacace.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it remains to be seen which champion Lomachenko will target first, but Foster told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uBXXOeOE4Bk?si=spvAAwToAL2kxl-f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fight Hub TV<\/a> that he would want the 38-year-old to have an alternate outing before they potentially meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want Loma to get a tune-up fight or something because, when I beat him I want no excuses, man. He has been retired.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can think whatever he wants, but I need him to get a tune-up fight because I don\u2019t want no excuses when I beat him. I don\u2019t want none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lomachenko\u2019s planned November return appears to have been pushed back to February, where he could collide with the victor of Cacace\u2019s WBA title clash with Nick Ball, which takes place on Saturday, December 19.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is understood that Filipino contender Charly Suarez is the man in line to be Lomachenko\u2019s opponent, due to his position as the WBO mandatory challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, fans could instead see Foster and either Cacace or Ball go toe-to-toe in an undisputed title showdown, with Lomachenko potentially positioned for a shot at the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vasiliy Lomachenko looks set to return and target the undisputed super-featherweight title, but one unified world champion has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}