Comments Thread For: Vasyl Lomachenko-Roman Martinez Deal in Place For June 11

[Rudiamonds]

I heard they gave rocky the same deal they tried to give walters 50K and a unlimted metrocard to the fight

[kej718]

So they are going to put this on the same night as Ruslan Provodnikov* - John Molina & Demetrius Andrade - Willie Nelson

How can you build up your fighter if they are always competing against another card the same night?

They could have just added this to the Crawford card 2 weeks later as the co feature.

[Bronx2245]

So Bob Arum can work with Haymon:

April 14, 2016:

Klimas explained - "Well, if Rocky steps back, Fortuna has already agreed to fight. That's what I was told. So Lomachenko is going to fight no matter what. Is that going to be Fortuna, is that going to be Martinez? Any champion at 130-pound division, we're fighting."

Fortuna (29-0-1, 21KOs) holds a version of the WBA strap.

"That's why I tweeted because I talked to Top Rank and they said either/or we're fighting on June 11th. We have other champions to fight so we shouldn't worry about it," said Klimas.

Asked his preference of the two, Klimas answered - "They're both good fighters, they're both champions. It really doesn't matter. WBO is good, WBA is good, all solid. Both of them good fighters, we really don't care."

Fortuna is promoted by Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing. Sampson confirmed the negotiations with Top Rank for a Lomachenko match. Martinez is handled by Puerto Rico Best Boxing. Both Fortuna and Martinez are advised by Al Haymon.

http://www.boxingscene.com/vasyl-lomachenko-face-fortuna-martinez-on-june-11--103471

[King_]

Great fight. Martinez would in fact beat Walters, and anybody else that Lomachenko could of fought.


Walters is a straight up bum- ducking a CAREER HIGH pay day and a fight with a P4P great......... to sit around and do nothing. SMH .

[giacomino]

Loma waaaaaayyyyy too skilled for Martinez. This is a 120-108 fight. Hoping for more of a challenge soon for Lomachenko

[Snoop Frog]

Looking forward to this one. Good on Loma for booking a good fight.

[CaneloMaidana]

lol at this dumbass.martinez is definitely not garbage he beat salido who gave loma his only loss of his career.

You know what, I don't think it's wrong for you to like Loma because he is White but to pretend Martinez isn't trash is ridiculous. I tell Herring all the time to fight Martinez cause he stinks so much.

[CaneloMaidana]

So they are going to put this on the same night as Ruslan Provodnikov* - John Molina & Demetrius Andrade - Willie Nelson

How can you build up your fighter if they are always competing against another card the same night?

They could have just added this to the Crawford card 2 weeks later as the co feature.

It does look like they are setting up Loma to fail. It reminds me of Rigo vs Agbeko. Will guys like Rafael and Iole skip Andrade vs Nelson, Dejan vs Marcil and Ruslan to see a Rocky Martinez fight? I doubt it.

[Mitchell Kane]

So Bob Arum can work with Haymon:

April 14, 2016:

Klimas explained - "Well, if Rocky steps back, Fortuna has already agreed to fight. That's what I was told. So Lomachenko is going to fight no matter what. Is that going to be Fortuna, is that going to be Martinez? Any champion at 130-pound division, we're fighting."

Fortuna (29-0-1, 21KOs) holds a version of the WBA strap.

"That's why I tweeted because I talked to Top Rank and they said either/or we're fighting on June 11th. We have other champions to fight so we shouldn't worry about it," said Klimas.

Asked his preference of the two, Klimas answered - "They're both good fighters, they're both champions. It really doesn't matter. WBO is good, WBA is good, all solid. Both of them good fighters, we really don't care."

Fortuna is promoted by Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing. Sampson confirmed the negotiations with Top Rank for a Lomachenko match. Martinez is handled by Puerto Rico Best Boxing. Both Fortuna and Martinez are advised by Al Haymon.

http://www.boxingscene.com/vasyl-lom...une-11--103471

The potential seems there to actually get some unification fights at 130.

That Fortuna apparently would've taken the fight now suggests it can be made in the future.

Would love to see it later this year or, more likely, next year.

[Mitchell Kane]

So they are going to put this on the same night as Ruslan Provodnikov* - John Molina & Demetrius Andrade - Willie Nelson

How can you build up your fighter if they are always competing against another card the same night?

They could have just added this to the Crawford card 2 weeks later as the co feature.

SHO ratings have been really low, doubt Provo-Molina hurts the HBO ratings all that much.