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VASILIY LOMACHENKO isn’t talking. At least not to everyone in the lead-up to his Saturday meeting with Masayoshi Nakatani in Las Vegas.

It’s a comeback fight for the former three-division belt-holder, and those are two words – comeback and former – many believed they wouldn’t ever hear associated with the Ukrainian master boxer in the years following the first loss of his career against Orlando Salido in 2014.

That was the second fight of Lomachenko’s pro boxing career, and from then until the night of October 17, 2020, it was all wins, title fights and a lofty place on the pound-for-pound list.

Then Teofimo Lopez came along, and after chasing Loma and his belts for two years, he hit his mark, winning a unanimous decision that made him the lightweight champion of the world. As for

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