"Many Photos" - Hearn confirms Crolla vs Lomachenko fight agreed in April 12 world title bout

EDDIE HEARN has confirmed Anthony Crolla will face the fight of his life against Vasyl Lomachenko on April 12.

The bout will take place in Los Angeles’ Staples Center — for the WBA and WBO light heavyweight world titles.

Eddie Hearn confirmed Anthony Crolla will face Vasyl Lomachenko in LA

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Anthony Crolla will take to the ring once again for the biggest test of his career

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Vasyl Lomachenko has become one of the biggest names in boxing as he went 12-1 after beating Jose Pedraza in December

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Crolla, 32, has put himself in position to challenge for his old world title after suffering two back-to-back defeats against Jorge Linares in 2016 and 2017.

Lomachenko stepped up in weight to take on Linares and managed to stop him in the 10th round to pick up the WBA world lightweight title.

The Ukrainian, 31, took his first and only professional defeat in a controversial decision when he fought Orlando Salido in only his second fight in 2009.

Salido didn’t make weight for the fight and came in the much bigger man, Salido also got away with a number of low blows that went unnoticed by the referee.

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Eddie Hearn has given the fight the thumbs up

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Crolla will fight in America for only the second time in his career and the first time since 2011

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Since then Lomachenko has gone on to put his name in the hat as one of boxing’s modern day pound-for-pound greats.

Crolla has picked himself back up since the Linares defeats and had two wins in 2018 against Edson Ramirez on the undercard for the Anthony Joshua vs Joseph Parker bout in Cardiff in March.

And Daud Yordan was defeated at Manchester Arena in November on the Oleksandr Usyk vs Tony Bellew undercard to give him a winning return to form.

Now, he faces the biggest test of his career to date and a win for Crolla leave him able to contemplate potential retirement a happy man with two world titles around his waist — and an epic, unlikely, victory to boot.

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