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[VIDEO] BOB ARUM REVEALS VASYL LOMACHENKO VS. NICHOLAS WALTERS IS MADE; SAYS HE'S FINALIZING A NETWORK TO TELEVISEBy Luis Sandoval | February 13, 2016

"The fight's made...I'm just looking for a network to televise it," stated Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum, who revealed that a intriguing matchup between Vasyl Lomachenko and Nicholas Walters is essentially a done deal and he simply needs to finalize the network to televise the fight. Check it out!
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Looks like we have to wait for June 11th (Puerto Rican Day Parade) to see this fight:yeshrug:



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Featherweight titlist Vasyl Lomachenko could be headed toward a June 11 showdown at junior lightweight with Nicholas Walters. Chris Farina/Top Rank
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Top Rank promoter Bob Arum had hoped to put together an April 30 card featuring featherweight titlist Vasyl Lomachenko moving up to junior lightweight to face former featherweight titleholder Nicholas Walters with junior welterweight titleholder Viktor Postol defending his belt, possibly against Adrian Granados, on the undercard.

Arum has been pressing HBO, his de facto premium cable partner, to put on the card and even spoke about it with Showtime, with whom he has done virtually no business with for several years.

But while the card won't happen as Arum envisioned or when he wants it, he told ESPN.com on Wednesday that he is "very close" to finalizing a June 11 date with HBO that would feature the Lomachenko-Walters match (a superb fight on paper, by the way) in the main event with rising Puerto Rican lightweight prospect Felix Verdejo fighting an opponent to be determined in the co-feature.

Arum said the show would take place at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, which Top Rank already reserved for a Verdejo fight even before he easily outpointed William Silva on HBO on Feb. 29. June 11 is a significant date because it is the eve of the annual Puerto Rican Day parade in New York, the weekend on which Top Rank regularly scheduled Miguel Cotto to fight on when he was with the company and now one that it is using to help build Verdejo, who already has a big New York fan base. Before a June fight, however, Verdejo has to come through a fight slated for April 16 (opponent TBA) in Puerto Rico.

"Lomachenko I think is the best fighter in the world," Arum said of the brilliant two-time Ukrainian Olympic gold medalist, who won a world title in his third professional fight. "But when you fight a guy who punches like Walters there’s always a danger in the fight. Hopefully, we can get the card done with HBO. They’re not 100 percent yet but it’s moving in that direction."

Arum said he would consider trying to book the larger Madison Square Garden main arena for the card if he can convince HBO to carry a tripleheader on which he would like to secure popular Long Island, New York, light heavyweight Seanie Monaghan a world title shot against Juergen Braehmer, who first defends his secondary title against Eduard Gutknecht on Saturday in Neubrandenburg, Germany.

As for the Postol's defense, Arum said he would look for another place to put his next fight. He said adding it as the co-feature on junior welterweight titlist Terence Crawford’s next fight, eyed for July, is a possibility. That makes a lot of sense since a title unification bout between Crawford and Postol is a possibility for later in the year.
 
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Newzz said:
Looks like we have to wait for June 11th (Puerto Rican Day Parade) to see this fight:yeshrug:



Arum eyes card featuring Lomachenko-Walters, Verdejo
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Featherweight titlist Vasyl Lomachenko could be headed toward a June 11 showdown at junior lightweight with Nicholas Walters. Chris Farina/Top Rank
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Top Rank promoter Bob Arum had hoped to put together an April 30 card featuring featherweight titlist Vasyl Lomachenko moving up to junior lightweight to face former featherweight titleholder Nicholas Walters with junior welterweight titleholder Viktor Postol defending his belt, possibly against Adrian Granados, on the undercard.

Arum has been pressing HBO, his de facto premium cable partner, to put on the card and even spoke about it with Showtime, with whom he has done virtually no business with for several years.

But while the card won't happen as Arum envisioned or when he wants it, he told ESPN.com on Wednesday that he is "very close" to finalizing a June 11 date with HBO that would feature the Lomachenko-Walters match (a superb fight on paper, by the way) in the main event with rising Puerto Rican lightweight prospect Felix Verdejo fighting an opponent to be determined in the co-feature.

Arum said the show would take place at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, which Top Rank already reserved for a Verdejo fight even before he easily outpointed William Silva on HBO on Feb. 29. June 11 is a significant date because it is the eve of the annual Puerto Rican Day parade in New York, the weekend on which Top Rank regularly scheduled Miguel Cotto to fight on when he was with the company and now one that it is using to help build Verdejo, who already has a big New York fan base. Before a June fight, however, Verdejo has to come through a fight slated for April 16 (opponent TBA) in Puerto Rico.

"Lomachenko I think is the best fighter in the world," Arum said of the brilliant two-time Ukrainian Olympic gold medalist, who won a world title in his third professional fight. "But when you fight a guy who punches like Walters there’s always a danger in the fight. Hopefully, we can get the card done with HBO. They’re not 100 percent yet but it’s moving in that direction."

Arum said he would consider trying to book the larger Madison Square Garden main arena for the card if he can convince HBO to carry a tripleheader on which he would like to secure popular Long Island, New York, light heavyweight Seanie Monaghan a world title shot against Juergen Braehmer, who first defends his secondary title against Eduard Gutknecht on Saturday in Neubrandenburg, Germany.

As for the Postol's defense, Arum said he would look for another place to put his next fight. He said adding it as the co-feature on junior welterweight titlist Terence Crawford’s next fight, eyed for July, is a possibility. That makes a lot of sense since a title unification bout between Crawford and Postol is a possibility for later in the year.
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So Crawford gonna fight some can in July then Postol what happened to Crawford vs Manny/Bradley winner Arum was talking big game end of 15 bout how he was gonna give Crawford the green light push.
 
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