Vasyl Lomachenko aims to ‘terminate the bout’ with Nicholas Walters after four rounds

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VASYL LOMACHENKO is sanguine about taking on big-punching Nicholas Walters for the first defence of his WBO super-featherweight title on Saturday (November 26) in Las Vegas. During his long and distinguished amateur career Lomachenko insists he was never troubled by hard-hitters. โ€œIf we are talking about the amateurs โ€“ the punchers never got anywhere in their careers. Usually three rounds was not enough time to get ready for the fight. The punchers are professional boxers not amateur boxers,โ€ he said.

Looking forward to his showdown with Walters, the Ukrainian realised, โ€œI think it is going to be very, very hard for me in the first four rounds, then after that I will be trying to terminate the bout.

โ€œBoxers always have an advantage over another, whether it is a longer reach or more weight or a taller guy.ย  How I will use his reach advantage to my advantage, you will find out on Saturday.โ€

Nicholas Walters responded, โ€œBob [Arum] knows what he is talking about since he has been in the business for 50 years. Even Muhammad Ali lost fights. I donโ€™t think this is a different Lomachenko from the guy that lost to [Orlando] Salido โ€“ he is the same Lomachenko. They say a leopard cannot change his spots right? Since he did lose to Salido, he can be as technical all he wants, but I am in the hurt business โ€“ this is a gladiator sport and I fight all of my fights like that, I fight like a gladiator. He can come in with his technical fight on Saturday and I am going to be up for it and put on a helluva show on Saturday night.

โ€œEach fight is different and I am not going to tell you that I am going to fight Lomachenko the same way that Salido fought him. Of course, only a fool doesnโ€™t learn from his mistakes, doesnโ€™t learn from his mistakes in the ring. He has been training and working out so I know he is a more complete fighter than his first fight. I am not even worried, so to speak, but I know that he has learned and is a better fighter from that loss. But it is still a blemish on his record that he lost. With that in mind he has tasted defeat and I have never tasted defeat. We have stayed undefeated and we are going to keep it that way this Saturday.โ€

โ€œThis victory is going to put the โ€˜Axe Manโ€™ to where I want to be and hopefully next year I start making over $1 million per fight. Thatโ€™s what we are aiming at. So we win Saturday then move on to other opponents,โ€ he concluded.

โ€œI donโ€™t have a lot to say, just that the Axe Man is going to show that he is the real Krusher on Saturday night.โ€

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