Comments Thread For: Arum Has Big Plans For Walters, Beginning With Uchiyama

[285Kid]

Big plans = Walters fighting both Uchiyama & Vargas in 2016

[BattleAxePurist]

And subsequently ending with......

[The Conundrum]

Uchiyama will knock Walters out in 9

[Firefist]

I have to see how Uchiyama does in his next fight before I have an opinion on this. As someone has mentioned the man is 36 years old. It's a shame that it took so long for a high profile fight.

From what I hear Takashi himself has been wanting to fight in the US however his manager (not promoter) has repeatedly made the decision for him to continue fighting domestically for financial reasons.

[Hougigo]

Seems like a Bob resign tactic

[tiliheels]

Glad to see the ax man is still getting the fight he deserves he'll have to be on his A game to beat Uchiyama tho.

who does he deserve that fight? i like walters, but he did not leave 126 as wba champ..he was stripped due to his own ignorance

Javier Fortuna deserves that shot..he beat the nujmber 3 130lber to be in that position...he's the wba champ under uchiyama and i want the wba to enforce that walters needs to be in the ranks, but it is not his shot.

[-DSG-]

who does he deserve that fight? i like walters, but he did not leave 126 as wba champ..he was stripped due to his own ignorance

Javier Fortuna deserves that shot..he beat the nujmber 3 130lber to be in that position...he's the wba champ under uchiyama and i want the wba to enforce that walters needs to be in the ranks, but it is not his shot.

I meant deserve in the sense that the winner of Walters-Sosa was supposed to get the Uchiyama fight and Walters was robbed of his victory against Sosa.

[North Star]

Walters is so overrated. So he stopped a completely shot Darch and a fat, non commited Donaire. I don't get the hype at all.

[The Akbar One]

who does he deserve that fight? i like walters, but he did not leave 126 as wba champ..he was stripped due to his own ignorance

That wasn't ignorance, that was calculated by Walter's inner circle. Marriaga had beaten him in the amateurs, and was an undefeated, power puncher. They didn't want to chance him upending Walters, so they had Walters come in heavy so he would take a better shot, and give a better shot.

Walters is a little over rated by HBO because they are in the Axe Man business. Just look at the last fight, as commentators ignored all of the good work that Sosa did. Hardly acknowledging anything. Even getting to a point where they would state things like "Walters looks like the harder puncher." as Sosa tee'd off on him, backed him up, or made him be overly defensive, to try and subliminally lead the viewer into the HBO viewpoint, that Sosa was getting vastly outclassed, and doing nothing. I mean, Kellerman, and Lampley aren't in there taking the punches. How the **** do they know who is the harder puncher? Sosa has a bunch of KO's as well, and was the more natural 130 pounder. Walters wasn't overly defensive for no reason. He was overly defensive because he was getting tagged, by somebody with decent power.

[tiliheels]

That wasn't ignorance, that was calculated by Walter's inner circle. Marriaga had beaten him in the amateurs, and was an undefeated, power puncher. They didn't want to chance him upending Walters, so they had Walters come in heavy so he would take a better shot, and give a better shot.

Walters is a little over rated by HBO because they are in the Axe Man business. Just look at the last fight, as commentators ignored all of the good work that Sosa did. Hardly acknowledging anything. Even getting to a point where they would state things like "Walters looks like the harder puncher." as Sosa tee'd off on him, backed him up, or made him be overly defensive, to try and subliminally lead the viewer into the HBO viewpoint, that Sosa was getting vastly outclassed, and doing nothing. I mean, Kellerman, and Lampley aren't in there taking the punches. How the **** do they know who is the harder puncher? Sosa has a bunch of KO's as well, and was the more natural 130 pounder. Walters wasn't overly defensive for no reason. He was overly defensive because he was getting tagged, by somebody with decent power.

a bro..im not with all that casual ish..and negative hoping on fighters..i just think he missed weight bc he is too big like any other normal fan...but i do agree that sosa deserved his draw..bc no one set themselves apart in that fight