Moving up ...Lomachenko fights Linares in search of third title

NEW YORK (AP):

Vasyl Lomachenko is looking for something that Jorge Linares believes he can deliver. Lomachenko has been winning too easily, and he never wants boxing to become easy. Not when he possesses an arsenal of skills that may be unparalleled in the sport that he wants to demonstrate.

"If I would be put in danger, then people can see 100 per cent where I am," Lomachenko said through a translator.

Linares thinks things are about to get dangerous.

They fight Saturday night at Madison Square Garden for Linares' World Boxing Association lightweight championship as Lomachenko tries to win a title in his third weight class in just his 12th professional bout.

Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) beat his last four opponents so thoroughly that their corners wouldn't let them take more punishment from the Ukrainian. Yet, Linares (44-3, 27 KOs) agrees that there is even a better version of Lomachenko than the two-time Olympic gold medallist has shown in his rapid rise to the top of the pro ranks.