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By Jake Donovan - There are so many other angles to identify the June 21 vacant featherweight title fight between Gary Russell and Vasyl Lomachenko.
You can call it a pairing of two former brilliant amateurs in search of their first championship win in the pro ranks. Perhaps it’s a matchup of an underachiever versus an overachiever. Maybe it’s simply a mismatch, a proven prospect waiting for the right opportunity, going up against a professional novice biting off more than he can chew in an ambitious start to the pro game.
The angle with which most seem obsessed, however, is that of Golden Boy versus Top Rank, and whether or not this fight is the first move towards the end of boxing’s Cold War.
Representatives for both companies were the only two in the room on the mid-April day a purse bid hearing was held for the right to promote the fight. Golden Boy won the bid with a whopping $1,052,500 offering. It was good enough to edge Top Rank by a mere $2,250 and absurdly high enough to raise questions if the two companies were determined to outdo each other for a fight that didn’t necessarily register in the grand scheme of things. [Click Here To Read More]
You can call it a pairing of two former brilliant amateurs in search of their first championship win in the pro ranks. Perhaps it’s a matchup of an underachiever versus an overachiever. Maybe it’s simply a mismatch, a proven prospect waiting for the right opportunity, going up against a professional novice biting off more than he can chew in an ambitious start to the pro game.
The angle with which most seem obsessed, however, is that of Golden Boy versus Top Rank, and whether or not this fight is the first move towards the end of boxing’s Cold War.
Representatives for both companies were the only two in the room on the mid-April day a purse bid hearing was held for the right to promote the fight. Golden Boy won the bid with a whopping $1,052,500 offering. It was good enough to edge Top Rank by a mere $2,250 and absurdly high enough to raise questions if the two companies were determined to outdo each other for a fight that didn’t necessarily register in the grand scheme of things. [Click Here To Read More]
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