Has miura even fought since that Vargas fight?
Yeah he had a tuneup in May. Also check this out:
The Boxing Tribune :: Orlando Salido vs. Takashi Miura On Deck as Lomachenko Rematch Talks Stall
It seemed that as long as Vasyl Lomachenko and Orlando Salido continued to win fights and look impressive doing so, they would be headed towards an inevitable rematch of their 2014 clash won by Salido. With Salido turning in a fight of the year performance against Francisco Vargas in June followed by Lomachenko drilling Roman Martinez in July, talks between the two heated up but talks have fizzled between the two rivals.
With Lomachenko’s team looking in another direction, with rumors of former two-division champion Yuriorkis Gamboa as a potential foe, Salido’s team has followed suit and may have settled on former Jr. Lightweight champion Takashi Miura in a fight that has a heavy propensity for violence.
Before Salido and Vargas engaged in their barbaric affair last June, Miura and Vargas battled in a hotly contested bout that went both ways until Miura was stopped in the ninth. Both parties are interested in making the fight and the low price tag involved means that HBO Boxing will more than likely also distribute the fight to bolster their anemic boxing schedule.
This could very well be the next entry of an unofficial box off at Jr. Lightweight, especially if Lomachenko and Vargas end up sitting out for the rest of the year and fight each other in 2017, where any mix up of these four could produce epic nights over the course of the next few months.
With nothing announced for regular HBO programming past the September 10 Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook fight, it would be a no brainer for HBO to make Salido/Miura official. When that happens, bring the splatter guard because there will be blood.
