LAS VEGAS – Vasiliy Lomachenko’s commitment to continuing his career is unknown.

His career-long promoter Top Rank was in negotiations last summer with PBC for a fight between the IBF lightweight champion and WBA champ Gervonta Davis for November in Las Vegas. Lomachenko abruptly pulled the plug on talks in July and said he’d revisit discussions for a return in 2025.

Ten months have passed, and there are still no updates on whether Ukraine's Lomachenko, who turned 37 in February, will lace up the gloves again.

The three-division champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist last fought on May 12, 2024. He knocked out George Kambosos Jr. in the 11th round in Perth, Australia and won the vacant IBF title he holds.

But Lomachenko (18-3, 12 KOs) is now holding up matters for those in line waiting to fight for the sanctioning body’s title. As decisions loom for Lomachenko, Raymond Muratalla and Zaur Abdullaev will fight for the IBF interim title on a Top Rank show Saturday night in San Diego (ESPN; 10 p.m. ET).

“He’s got a decision to make,” Carl Moretti, Top Rank's vice president of boxing operations, told The Ring. “It’s by September on whether or not he’s going to fight the mandatory, which would be the winner of Muratalla-Abdullaev. And that will determine what he wants to do. It doesn’t mean that he wouldn’t fight again. It could be somebody else. The decision on fighting in general is still up in the air.

“He can do whatever he wants. He’s Loma. I don’t think he needs a title to reflect how great he is or build a promotion around. Really, the question is, does he want to fight again? We can’t worry about Loma until he decides what to do.”

An IBF spokesperson told The Ring that Lomachenko has to make a title defense by October 8.

If Lomachenko remains noncommittal during the summer, on August 8 the IBF will order negotiations to begin between Lomachenko and the winner of Muratalla-Abdullaev. They’ll then have 30 days to negotiate a deal.

It remains to be seen if Lomachenko would want to reignite talks for a tilt against Davis, who is committed to a rematch against Lamont Roach later this year.

“We were in the red zone, for sure, as far as the deal being done [for the Lomachenko-Davis fight],” Moretti said. “But Loma didn’t want to fight anybody. It had nothing to do with Tank. He wanted to take a break. I don’t know if we will ever see him or not.”