Vasiliy Lomachenko

Vasyl Lomachenlo vs. Rocky Martinez in the works for June 11

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Roman MartinezBy Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum was unable to setup a fight between his two Top Rank fighters WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (5-1, 3 KOs) and former WBA featherweight champion Nicholas Walters (26-0-1, 21 KOs) after Walters reportedly priced himself out of the fight by asking for more than the fight was willing to pay.

Instead of making the Lomachenko-Walters fight, Arum is now working on matching Lomachenko against WBO super featherweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez (29-2-3, 17 KOs) for a fight on June 11 on HBO Championship Boxing at Madison Square Garden in New York. Lomachenko will be moving up in weight to super featherweight to challenge Martinez for his fight.

Arum working on Crawford-Postol and Lomachenko-Walters

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crawford43By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is still having problems putting together a fight between WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (5-1, 3 KOs) and former WBA featherweight champion Nicholas Walters (26-0-1, 21 KOs) for June 11th. Arum wants to televise the fight on HBO Championship Boxing and stage it at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Arum is having problems due to Walters asking for more money than he’s willing to give. If he can’t get Walters to come down in price, Arum will look to get a replacement opponent to match against Lomachenko.

Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Nicholas Walters possible for June 11

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walters34By Allan Fox: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is working on a long awaited fight between former WBA featherweight champion Nicholas Walters (26-0-1, 21 KOs) and current WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenklo (5-1, 3 KOs) for June 11 on HBO at Madison Square Garden in New York.

It would be a good location for the fight because a lot of Ukrainian and/or Russians could come see Lomachenko fight. Also on the same card, Arum is looking to add unbeaten WBC light welterweight champion Viktor Postol in defending his title against #6 WBC Adrian Granados. It would be an interesting fight for the co-feature if Arum can put the fight together.

Arum had been hoping to have the Lomachenko-Walters fight televised on HBO on April 30, but it wasn’t possible to do the fight at that time. Lomachenko would be moving up to super featherweight to face the 29-year-old Walters, who clearly can’t make the featherweight division weight limit of 126lbs any longer at this point in his career.

Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Nicholas Walters possible for April 30

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Image: Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Nicholas Walters possible for April 30By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is reportedly working on putting together a fight between his two stable fighters WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (5-1, 3 KOs) and super featherweight contender Nicholas Walters (26-0-1, 21 KOs) for April 30, according to Fight News.

The fight might not be taking place on HBO. As reported earlier this week, the 84-year-old Arum is shopping the Lomachenko-Walters fight on Showtime. It seems HBO isn’t all that excited about the fight.

Arum says Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Nicholas Walters is done!

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arum4By Tim Fletcher: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says a fight between WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (5-1, 3 KOs) and former WBA Super World featherweight champion Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters (26-0-1, 21 KOs) is done, and he’s now just looking for a network to televise the fight.

It’s hard to imagine HBO turning down such a great fight like this. Walters, 30, lost his WBA 126lb title last year in June 2015, when he came in one-pound overweight for his title defense against Miguel Marriaga. Walters still easily won the fight by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision, but he lost his WBA title due to him coming in overweight.

Purses: Bradley $1.9M, Rios $800K, Lomachenko $750K, Koasicha $35K

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rios466By Jim Dower: WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley (32-1-1, 12 KOs) will be getting the lion’s share of the revenue for Saturday’s fight against challenger Brandon Rios (33-2-1, 24 KOs) at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bradley, 32, will be getting $1.9 million compared to Rios’ $800,000.

It’s unclear if those purses will be bumped up with other money. It’s not PPV, so it doesn’t look like there will be any other revenue the fighters get.

Can Vasyl Lomachenko become a genuine artist?

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By Gerardo Granados: Yesterday I read a couple of interesting articles related to Lomachenko boxing paint artist goal, which made me wonder if the boxing purists like Jose Eduardo Sanchez would include us in the debate or if they would claim to have the only valid opinion on the subject.

If Vasyl aims to become a boxing artist like Floyd Mayweather Jr he could struggle as Guillermo Rigondeaux, but if Lomachenko does understand the business side of “prize fighting” then in deed he could become pleasure to watch.

Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Romulo Koasicha on November 7th on HBO

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Vasyl Lomachenko vs Gamalir RodriguezBy Dan Ambrose: WBO World featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (4-1, 2 KOs) will be making his third defense of his WBO 126lb title two months from now against #8 WBO contender Romulo Koasicha (25-4, 15 KOs) in what has to be seen as a poor mismatch on HBO Championship Boxing from the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Lomachenko- Koasicha will be the co-feature on the Timothy Bradley vs. Brandon Rios card, but in truth this fight should more like the first bout on the card and nowhere near the co-feature.

Mares willing to fight Lomachenko, Walters or Santa Cruz next

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Image: Mares willing to fight Lomachenko, Walters or Santa Cruz nextBy Dan Ambrose: Despite taking a frightful beating last Saturday night to unbeaten former two division world champion Leo Santa Cruz (31-0-1, 17 KOs) in losing a 12 round majority decision, 29-year-old Abner Mares (29-2-1, 15 KOs) says he’s willing to get back inside the ring to face the likes of Santa Cruz again, or WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko or former WBA Super World featherweight champion Nicholas Walters. It depends on who his adviser Al Haymon wants Mares to fight.

Mares lost the fight to Santa Cruz by the scores of 114-114, 117-111 and 117-111. Mares was fortunate that the scores of the fight was even that close because you can argue that Mares should have lost by a wider set of scores.

Arum: Rigondeaux is Lomachenko’s biggest challenge out there

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rigondeauxBy Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is interested in matching his fighter WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (4-1, 2 KOs) against WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 KOs) for later this year.

Arum figures that the Cuban Rigondeaux has the kind of talent to give Lomachenko his toughest test. Thus far, Lomachenko has been beaten only once in his career by Mexican warrior Orlando Salido last year when he pounded out a 12 round split decision after punishing Lomachenko with body shots all fight long.