Vasyl Lomachenko (6-1, 4 KOs) defeated defending champion Rocky Martinez (29-3-3, 17 KOs) by a fifth round KO to win the WBO super featherweight title on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden’s Theater in New York.
Lomachenko dominated and out-classed Martinez from the start.
The Ukrainian southpaw rocked Martinez in the second with a hard left and continued to land several lefts and rights in the following rounds.
The finishing blows came in the fifth when a brutal left uppercut – right…