Arum says Walters v loma is made, needs a network

[aldo5408]

He said that because they're having a difficult time finding him opponents at 126. He's not having trouble making weight or anything like that.

Unlike most I want to see that Loma-Rigo fight.
At first I understood why people didn't want to see it happen, but at the end of the day when are we ever going to have a situation like this again. 2 2x Olympic Gold medalist and they fight around the same weight.
This is a fight that years from now people will wonder why it never happened.
So I don't care what anyone says, I want to see that fight.

Loma has to defeat Walters first, obviously. People's excuse as to why the Rigo fight can't happen is because Loma "ducked" Walters. Well the Walters is hopefully here, so lets see what people say afterwards.

We first have to wait and see if this Loma-Walters fight gets finalized. Can't trust words.

I got a link it's in spanish let me know if you need translation bit here arum and Valdez are Basicly saying that they want loma to move up so Valdez can take that title
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Oscar Valdez podría disputar título pluma si Lomachenko sube a 130

Oscar Valdez podría ver la puerta abierta a un título si Vasyl Lomachenko invade las 130 libras Mikey Williams/Top Rank
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11 feb, 2016
Salvador Rodríguez, ESPN Digital
MÉXICO - En espera de que el joven contendiente mexicano Óscar Valdez pueda ganar este 9 de abril al excampeón mundial Evgeny Gradovich, el promotor estadounidense Bob Arum reveló que el ucraniano Vasyl Lomachenko podría abdicar hacia finales del 2016 al cetro pluma de la Organización Mundial de Boxeo y eso abriría la puerta para que el sonorense, dos veces olímpico, vaya por la faja mundial.

Arum presentó esta tarde a los tres peleadores mexicanos que formarán parte de la cartelera que estelarizarán Manny Pacquiao y Timothy Bradley. Ahí estuvieron Óscar Valdez, Gilberto Ramírez y José Ramírez, quienes enfrentarán a Evgeny Gradovich, Arthur Abraham y Manny Pérez, respectivamente.

"Creo que Valdez es un tremendo peleador, con gran arsenal. Tengo a otro pluma ahí que es campeón como (Vasyl) Lomachenko, pero creo que irá a las 130 libras y dejaría espacio para que Valdez pueda pelear por ese campeonato", comentó Arum. "Pero primero hay que ver porque Gradovich es muy peligroso, tira muchos golpes y será una buena prueba", amplió.

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I got a link it's in spanish let me know if you need translation bit here arum and Valdez are Basicly saying that they want loma to move up so Valdez can take that title
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Oscar Valdez podría disputar título pluma si Lomachenko sube a 130

Oscar Valdez podría ver la puerta abierta a un título si Vasyl Lomachenko invade las 130 libras Mikey Williams/Top Rank
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11 feb, 2016
Salvador Rodríguez, ESPN Digital
MÉXICO - En espera de que el joven contendiente mexicano Óscar Valdez pueda ganar este 9 de abril al excampeón mundial Evgeny Gradovich, el promotor estadounidense Bob Arum reveló que el ucraniano Vasyl Lomachenko podría abdicar hacia finales del 2016 al cetro pluma de la Organización Mundial de Boxeo y eso abriría la puerta para que el sonorense, dos veces olímpico, vaya por la faja mundial.

Arum presentó esta tarde a los tres peleadores mexicanos que formarán parte de la cartelera que estelarizarán Manny Pacquiao y Timothy Bradley. Ahí estuvieron Óscar Valdez, Gilberto Ramírez y José Ramírez, quienes enfrentarán a Evgeny Gradovich, Arthur Abraham y Manny Pérez, respectivamente.

"Creo que Valdez es un tremendo peleador, con gran arsenal. Tengo a otro pluma ahí que es campeón como (Vasyl) Lomachenko, pero creo que irá a las 130 libras y dejaría espacio para que Valdez pueda pelear por ese campeonato", comentó Arum. "Pero primero hay que ver porque Gradovich es muy peligroso, tira muchos golpes y será una buena prueba", amplió.

It's obvious why they want Loma to move up. They know Valdez can't beat Loma and Arum obviously prefers hispanic fighters over European fighters (there shouldn't be favoritism to begin with), so of course he'll do anything to give Valdez and easy belt.
People think Eastern Europeans/Central Asian get favored which is simply not true.
I like Valdez by the way, he's one of my favorite contenders, but it's the truth.

If Loma were down for it, it would be cool if he kept his 126 belt and fought at 130 as well. He could double up in those divisions for a while. There are still some fights at 126 and there is several fights at 130.

[Eff Pandas]

"Needs a network" about a fight where both guys been fighting on HBO is an interesting problem lol. Sounds like some soon to be fun Youtube videos with Arum re-dogging Nelson in the future.

Hope they figure this **** out cuz this is a good fight.

[THC]

I'm drooling already.

[Rich2123]

This will either wind up on HBO, or maybe this is the fight that re-opens someone other then Haymon getting real (non Showbox) fights on Showtime.

As long as the fight happens, I am down.

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Arum: Lomachenko vs Walters is almost made, looking for a network to televise it



Good news for us, I've been waiting for this fight for a long time. good that Lomachenko is finally stepping up, however I don't understand why HBO wouldn't televise such a fight? I thought Arum, Lomachenko and Walters all have deals with HBO?!!

I also hope they don't drain Walters down to 126 for this fight, the man had difficulties making the weight and moved up to 130 where he already fought once, the fight has to be at 130 lbs imo.

[OctoberRed]

Already posted here a few times. Everyone doubts this is true. There is still a lot of debate over whether or not Walters contract expired and him being a free agent.

[lopetego]

If this is true, Lomachenko deserves all the praise in the world

way to show Rigonduck what it's like to be a real man and fighter

[-Kev-]

It's really too bad this fight was not marinated. I would have loved to see Walters with 1 or 2 losses and Lomachenko get knocked down a few times before making the fight. Now we get them undefeated, it's not fun that way in Top Rank land.

[lopetego]

It's really too bad this fight was not marinated. I would have loved to see Walters with 1 or 2 losses and Lomachenko get knocked down a few times before making the fight. Now we get them undefeated, it's not fun that way in Top Rank land.

IKR, who the hell wants to see two fighters getting in the ring undefeated and in their prime?

there's a reason this kinda matches almost never happen, it feels weird!