Nicholas Walters: record, next fight and profile →
The win paves the way for Ward to fight Kovalev, the Russian slugger who has defended his title three times since beating Bernard Hopkins in a unification match in 2014. While talks between both camps have been ongoing, things are expected to heat up now.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum has told BoxingScene.com that while Vasyl Lomachenko (5-1, 3KOs) and Nicholas Walters (26-0-1, 21KOs) are still on a collision course it will not be on April 30th as originally planned.
There are still some questions to be answered in regards to the fight that has been verbally agreed to between Vasyl Lomachenko and Nicholas Walters paramount among them is just weight will this fight be contested at?
Promoter Bob Arum has confirmed to Boxingscene.com that a clash between WBO featherweight titlist, Vasyl Lomachenko and former WBA featherweight belt-holder, Nicholas Walters has been agreed upon by both parties. "The details will come next week but the date we're looking at is April 30th," Arum said on Friday morning.
New York, NY-The landscape of boxing is always evolving and changing, and those involved in the business have to do the same. For the past few years, Top Rank, Inc. has done business exclusively with one major premium network and that network is HBO. But the relationship hasn’t been all peaches and cream.
The team behind former world champion Nicholas Walters would prefer that their fighter continues his career at 126 pounds, but the hard-punching Jamaican is open to analyzing the possibility of a fight against Japan's Takashi Uchiyama, who holds the super featherweight championship of the World Boxing Association (WBA).
Takashi Uchiyama continued his New Year's Eve tradition of defending his super featherweight crown, the latest coming in a three-round destruction of overmatched Oliver Flores. A body shot was enough to force the visiting challenger to wilt in the third round of their headlining act Thursday evening in Tokyo, Japan.
The working theory heading into his HBO-televised showdown with Jason Sosa was that Nicholas Walters merely needed to win in order to proceed with the next order of business. The unbeaten former featherweight titlist was being groomed for a showdown with long-reigning super featherweight titlist Takashi Uchiyama, providing both emerged victorious in their next bouts.
Like most boxing diehards, Jessie Vargas tuned in to the December 19 edition of Boxing After Dark on HBO. The show took place at Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York, featuring Luis Ortiz' emphatic 7th round knockout of Bryant Jennings in the evening's headliner.
After returning to home of Panama, trainer Celso Chavez, who handles former world champion Nicholas Walters (26-0-1, 21KOs) expressed his frustrations over the verdict of the judges in the twelve round decision draw from this past weekend against Jason Sosa in their HBO televised contest, which took place at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York.