The W.A.D.E. Concept - BREAKING: Vasily Lomachenko Just RETIRED.. - The W.A.D.E. Concept with Wade Plemons

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, we're back on the Way concept presented

(00:03):
by The Ring magazine and I have just woken up.
As you can see, beds not made, and I've learned
the news that a bittersweet journey has come to an end.
Vassilil Matenko has retired from the sport of boxing and
we have to talk about it the breakdown.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let's go, folks.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Lomachenko retires from the sport of boxing and he adds
this video along with it. Before we even get into
what a legendarian, storied career Lomachenko leaves behind and the

(01:37):
legacy he leaves behind, Let's let's take a look at
his message, I guess his confirmed actual retirement.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I want to thank our Allarm Jesus Christ for everything
he has done for me, for guiding the prideful, the
young man down a path that ultimately show with me
that fame, legacy, and recognition are not the true purpose
of life. I'm grateful for every victory and every defeat,
both in a ring and in a life, and of course,

(02:07):
I wouldn't be remiss not to thank you, my dear
boxing fans around the world. You have always supported me
with passion and lived through unforgettable fights alongside me for
over a decade. I hope you continue to laugh and
respect this sport just a personality, because the men who
step in a ring risk their health for the sake

(02:30):
of their families. Peace to all there is.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
And it's almost as quickly as he rocketed onto the scene,
he was gone, no flash, no big retirement tour, no
super formal press conference announcement, literally just sitting down in
a chair and professing his faith to Jesus.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Christ and leave it and for as.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Quiet and even kill as he is when he's sitting
in this video or when he was outside of the ring.
Inside of the ring, Loma chain was one of the
greatest styles of fighting you may ever see. And you know,
I'm sure today will be a day where people take
an opportunity to debate how good Lomachenko really was compared

(03:13):
to maybe some of the push or some of you know,
the early on comparisons that he drew. But regardless, if
you think he's one of the greatest of all time,
if you think that he is a good fighter or
a great fighter, but nothing more and nothing less. If
you think that his amateur record carries a lot of

(03:33):
the water for how good Lomachenko really was. I think
he had won over three hundred and ninety amateur fights
or three hundred and eighty amateur fight with one single.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Loss, which is insane to think about. Obviously, the two gold.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Medals that he won as an amateur and all the
other accolades from world championships and everything else. He was,
both as an amateur and then obviously in the pro
game a unique fighter I mean when I say that
is Lomachenko's style in itself was so unpredictable, the way
that he was able to run circles around you while
standing in front of you to make you miss and

(04:10):
make you pay without being out of range. She could
be right in front of you and you wouldn't be
able to see him. He was almost a matador at times.
He'd even show it to you in the ring. And
while his pro record was eighteen and three and he
you know, on paper, lost fights against Devin Haney, which
has been disputed the Devin Haney fight.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Did he win? Did he not who knows.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's uff from interpretation from you guys the fans, but
also losing the Tafia Lopez fight. I don't want to
make today about like how great was he? Was he
the best ever? Was he world class?

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Was he just good?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Was he just below that? Like to me and I'll
just you know, we'll just say here. I think Lomachenko
was he was world class. I think his style again,
how fluid he was in between offense and defense. How
he could stand right in front of you and at
the same time be out of range.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Somehow you couldn't touch him.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
He threw punches in bunches at times, and he also
threw from different angles. It felt like he had more
power sometimes in his lead hand than his backhand. And
yet he was knocking people out clean, not one hundred
and twenty five pounds. And when he wasn't doing that,
he was able to win big time decisions. I mean,
he won the WBO World featherweight title. I know it
was vacant, but he won it in his third fight,

(05:17):
absolutely schooled riggind out, beat up Jorge Lenaris, ran through
Jose Petraza. It wasn't even competitive when he fought Luke Campbell.
He had this ability to make good fighters to great
fighters look average at times.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Right.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
I mean, he absolutely completely and utterly destroyed George Cambosis
after Cambosis had his big time win.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Over tia Fimo Lopez.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
You know, the one kind of glaring, not great performance
from Lomachenko to me was the Tiafima Lopez fights. You
have to give Tiafimo credit there. But Lomachenko had so
much hype coming out of the amateurs that the question
will always be asked did he.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Live up to it?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
And I guess, you know, in one sense maybe not,
just because you know, he ends his career with not
very many fights, but at eighteen and three, he did
most of the things that you would want to do.
He didn't become undisputed or didn't unify the belts, but
he won world titles multiple times. He did win two
gold medals. He did take on some tough competition and

(06:19):
fought at the highest level. Do I wish that he
would have fought the likes of Jervonte Tank Davis. Absolutely,
I wish that that was a fight that we were
sitting now and talking about happening last year, But it
didn't and that's unfortunate, but we did get to see
him in high level matchups versus t O, versus Devin Haney,
And I guess at the end of it all, I
was always just a fan. I mean, that's that's where
I leave it. I was always just a fan of

(06:41):
his style. I was a fan of his approach, how
he fought, how he treated fighting, and I guess, just
as a personal thing for me, how he conducted himself
outside of it. Obviously being Ukrainian, you know, there is
a bit more of a humble, sort of conservative lifestyle
that I identify with a little more.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
But yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
There's there's there's really no words, because you thought, especially
after how easily he dismantled George Cambosis, that this was
going to be maybe the resurgence of Lomachenko, And it
doesn't really surprise me.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't guess that he's retiring. You know, he's thirty
seven years old.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
I guess maybe he's asking himself the question, if I
can't fight Tank Davis, then what other fight is there
for me out there? Rematching Devin Han's out of the
question because Hane's moved up rematching Tia Fimo's probably out
of the question because Fimo's moving up. If it's not
Gervonte Davis at one hundred and thirty five pounds, what
is the.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Big fight still left there?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
But you saw what could happen when a guy was
pushed and given the attention that again, I think he
deserved coming out of his amateur ranks and coming out
of being just a high level amateur. And I feel
like sometimes, especially now, you know, in boxing, we have
this issue with pushing guys early because of what can

(07:57):
happen and because of potentially losing early and potentially not
having you know, that signature win until you're twenty to oh.
And historically that's how guys have been, you know, built
in the sport. That's how most guys' records tend to look.
But Lomachenko, because he was such a decorated amateur, came
out and was taking tough fights right away.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
He was a unicorn. He was unique.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
And I think that fighters, if they look at how
they moved Lomachenko, if they have the experience coming out
as amateurs and if they are of that world class level,
they can look at his career and see a blueprint
to potentially be different, a blueprint to not just spend
your formative years racking up meaningless wins in fear of

(08:38):
losing your Oh, because there's one thing that Lomachenko didn't
have fear of and credited to Devin Haney and credit
to at that point, Tiafimo Lopez, although he may have
a video coming out very soon about tia Fimo and
why right now he's acting more like a mallard than
a fighter. Yes, I think TiO is ducking Devin Haney
right now, which is crazy to say.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
But Vasili never.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Had that fear of losing, right He didn't have that
fear of his legacy being tied to a zero in
the lost column. And I think that's again one of
the bigger frustrations with the sport of boxing that I
have right now is everybody being terrified of taking a lot,
because no one gets better by fighting people that aren't good.
And one thing Lomachenko and his team knew early is

(09:19):
that they needed to push him into the upper class
of pro competition because they were going to be here
for a good time, but not a long time. And
that's I think the best way to describe Si Lomachenko's career.
He was magnificent, almost magical as a fighter. He was
willing to take on big time challenges. He was one
of the greatest offense to defense transition fighters I've ever seen.

(09:43):
His IQ was insane. Again, his ability to make you
miss and make you pay. He had power at twenty five,
he had power at thirty, and he had power at
one hundred and thirty five pounds that still kept you
in check while at the same time he could put
you in the matrix.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
He could make you quit aka no.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Mush Chenko, or he could absolutely break you down and
win a unanimous decision in quite dominant fashion that didn't
leave a viewer thinking, wow, what a knowther boring twelve
rounds of point fighting. He was looking at all times
to change the fight, to finish the fight, and if
he didn't get that finish, he was gonna make you
feel it for the next however long. So the only

(10:21):
thing I'll say left is congrats to Vasili Lomachenko on
a fantastic career. I don't really know what's next for him.
You know, this could be one of those situations where
we don't hear from him for the next two years,
three years, and he just pops up somewhere, it feels like,
especially again on the Ukrainian side and the Eastern European side,
when fighters retire, that's kind of it. You don't really
see him out in about And obviously, you know the

(10:42):
elephant in the room with the Ukraine in Russia situation.
I'm sure that that's got something to do with with
with some of this, I assume, you know, having to
serve actual military time and having to be involved in
that conflict obviously is a tragic thing for for everybody
involved there. But yeah, I really don't know what happens
next for Vasiliomachenko is just kind of a shock, but
not really.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
But all I can say is what a career.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
And thank you to Lomachenko for blessing boxing fans with
his performances and his style and just his attitude and
his willingness to be great.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
That's all I got.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
You guys, let me know what you think down in
the comments below. But now it is official breaking news.
Maybe not by the time you see this, but Silomchenko
has retired. I will call him a legend in the
game because that's what I believe he is. What a
fantastic career and what happens next for him. I don't
have those answers, but I guess we'll find out

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