Fight Lomachenko against Kroll in Los Angeles is a mistake. They were supposed to fight in Manchester …

Teams of world champion under version WBA lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko and mandatory Challenger from Manchester, Anthony Kroll was able to negotiate without any purse-bid: the fight will take place April 12 in Los Angeles. All as planned of Basil.

Kroll is not the opponents that wanted the Ukrainian boxer. April is almost done deal was considered a unification fight with the IBF lightweight title, which had to be defined in a duel of Ghanaian Richard Commies with Russian ISA Canevin. Defeated more interesting Ukrainian Commies, but he managed two incomplete rounds to hurt my hand, made a quick unification possible.

The only real alternative was considered Brit Anthony crolla. A good fighter, a former world champion, and even the mandatory Challenger sooner or later, Tech would still have to meet obligations to the WBA. But if, in the circumstances, to the candidate Kroll claims to be the location of the battle raises questions.

Anthony Crolla, Boxing Scene

The problem in competitive matches is very relevant for Vasyl Lomachenko. The fans require more Bev, but you could count them on the fingers of one hand, and even then not all will be involved.

First and foremost, we are talking about the WBC champion Mikey Garcia, however that after the fight with Errol Spence in the Welterweight division probably will not go back to 135 pounds. Also a lot of talk around the potential megafit with Gerontol Davis, but he has yet “Championat” category below, and his promoter Floyd Mayweather is not stupid enough to risk the most valuable asset. There’s more talkative prospect Teofilo Lopez that every effort attracts the attention of Lomachenko and the public, but it is still green and there also should be a bit of a wait.

It turns out that the leader of the pound-for-pound for new calls to change the weight, and when it was almost up against the ceiling, forced to settle for not the most interesting from a sporting point of view options, but to get the most in other aspects. Many criticize Jose Pedraza, anyway, was the champion, which allowed Basil for the first time in his career to unify the belts. The battle with the Commies similarly, it is not considered the epitome of the dreams of fans, but he also has a waist strap, which need Ukrainian. Anthony Kroll can not be considered starry scalp, fight the big mismatch and the championship title he doesn’t have. At the same time, the applicant has an asset that for some reason the team Lomachenko were not used – Kroll adore at home.

Anthony Kroll, Getty Images

“When in November in Manchester Boxing Oleksandr Usyk and Tony Bellew, fight Anthony Kroll was the second main event of the evening. Spectators gathered to watch not only for Bellew, but on Kroll: they massively supported him during open training, and then more actively — directly to the ring. In Manchester I love to Kroll, his bout with Vasyl exactly would gather a full house at the Manchester Arena (about 20 thousand viewers) and helped bi Ukrainians to make a name for himself in England. All what I did in November, Alexander Usik,” says the correspondent of Sport Arena Alex Manzi, who was in Manchester for the fight of Usik vs Bellew.

Exclusive interview with Sport Arena with Anthony Crolley before his fight in Manchester

For some time Anthony considered the future of British Boxing, but broke two quite unnecessary defeat in 2012-m to year. And after the end of the 14th he became the victim of a robbery and was hospitalized with a broken head and a broken ankle, almost no one believed that Kroll is waiting for some kind of future in the sport. But he is not only back, but also became world champion at the second attempt, defeating Darley Peres, and later was clearly protected from the candidates claims puncher Ismael Barroso.

Anthony Kroll, Getty Images

The fans love these stories where together merge tragedy, pain, prepoznavanje and success. Two competitive defeats big favorite Jorge Linares and again the output of the peak in the form of three victories in a row just complete the picture sports hero of the nation. You can go on and talk about positive, sometimes even reverent attitude of the British fans to Anthony Kroll, but the fact remains – aura of a fighter to the bone, my own way of guy for whom nothing is impossible, is starting to unwind even when away from Manchester and disappears completely from outside the UK.

Vasyl Lomachenko had to adjust plans due to the failed unification and was chosen for this is to be expected and is quite a decent option in the face of mandatory Challenger. However, the battle with Croloy in Los Angeles in the global plan does not give a Tech. Will be no loud signage that can capture the attention of even people not interested in Boxing, no crazy atmosphere in the arena, United by the belief that in the ring may be the site of a miracle or thousands of new fans who would be able to get acquainted with a phenomenal champion, to give him credit and to monitor further development of his career. There is nothing that would provide a meeting in Manchester.

Will remain the same only to win over mismatched stylistically easy opponent, a new piece of far-fetched criticism and doubt in the well-deserved first place in the ranking of the best boxers regardless of weight category.