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By Cliff Rold - Jamaica’s 29-year old WBA Featherweight titlist Nicholas Walters (25-0, 21 KO) looks the part.
With size, length, boxing skill, and prodigious power, he’s right at the top of a new wave of talent at 126 lbs. that has the division on fire again. Holding the WBA’s sub-‘world’ title since 2012, he made it all his last year. A possible showdown with WBO titlist Vasyl Lomachenko (4-1, 2 KO) already has mouths watering, even with the limited professional experience of the Ukrainian.
Two years ago, the class was spotty. Things change quickly in boxing. Featherweight might not yet have the depth of Welterweight or Flyweight, but it’s closing.
Walters enters in high esteem for an HBO main event Saturday night (10 PM EST/PST) after two huge victories in 2014. In the first, he stopped former Flyweight titlist and World Jr. Bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan in five. In his very next fight, he became the first man to stop four-division titleholder Nonito Donaire in six.
It was enough to garner Walter some looks for Fighter of the Year in some corners. This weekend, he’s in with a man far less accomplished and known than either of the likely future Hall of Famers he defeated last year. [Click Here To Read More]
With size, length, boxing skill, and prodigious power, he’s right at the top of a new wave of talent at 126 lbs. that has the division on fire again. Holding the WBA’s sub-‘world’ title since 2012, he made it all his last year. A possible showdown with WBO titlist Vasyl Lomachenko (4-1, 2 KO) already has mouths watering, even with the limited professional experience of the Ukrainian.
Two years ago, the class was spotty. Things change quickly in boxing. Featherweight might not yet have the depth of Welterweight or Flyweight, but it’s closing.
Walters enters in high esteem for an HBO main event Saturday night (10 PM EST/PST) after two huge victories in 2014. In the first, he stopped former Flyweight titlist and World Jr. Bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan in five. In his very next fight, he became the first man to stop four-division titleholder Nonito Donaire in six.
It was enough to garner Walter some looks for Fighter of the Year in some corners. This weekend, he’s in with a man far less accomplished and known than either of the likely future Hall of Famers he defeated last year. [Click Here To Read More]
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