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Whatchagonnado: Vasyl Lomanchenko Vs Nicolas Walters – Now’s That’s A Hot Spicy Biscuit!

whatcha-gonna-doBy Roy “Sharpshooter” Bennett

I could’ve had egg on my face. But I don’t. Apparently my influence in the boxing world stretches far and wide. Because now Bob Arum has announced a date for a Vasyl Lomachenko Vs Nicholas Walters fight. April 30th. And the word on the boxing junkie re-up street corner is that the weight will be 130 lbs. I’m taking all the credit for making this happen. Yeah. You read that right homie. In this column I’ve called the promoters on their BS matchmaking AND I called Bob on whether he was lying or telling the truth on this match up.

Bob obviously felt the need to prove me wrong and made the fight. I’m finally getting through to these guys that without the fans they don’t have anyone to sell product to. I’m starting a new movement called “Boxing Fans Matter”! Give the fans fights like Lomachenko Vs Walters and they will spend their hard earned dollars to peep that s*** go down! It ain’t rocket science. So Bob. I think I deserve a press credential and a comped room at the fight venue so I can be there as an overseer to check this thing really happens.

I promise I won’t be waving a big ass Jamaican flag in press row during the fight. Even though my mother’s from there. I’ll just be an impartial observer reporting for RSR. Honest. Hit me up via “Bad” Brad Berkwitt. Bob. Let’s do this!

Listen. I got in a taxi this afternoon to go downtown. Low and behold what do I find lying on the backseat next to me. A green WBC title belt. I asked the driver who it belonged to and he said a real tall black dude with tats flagged him down for a ride. He was carrying the belt. He got in the back and his phone rang. The tall black dude shouted, “MOSCOW???,” then said, “PULL OVER!!!,” jumped out and ran off down the street. He left his belt on the back seat. The cabbie shook his head, “Mister. I see the strangest s*** in this job.”

A Gold Medal win for an amateur at the Olympic Games used to be a springboard to fame and fortune in the pro ranks. For every kid who takes up boxing it’s the ultimate dream, the pinnacle of the amateur boxing experience. And now the f****** numbskulls at the AIBA have cheapened it beyond repair with their stupid decision to – wait for it – allow professionals to enter the Olympic Games! SMDH.
You can almost hear the sound of thousands of young amateur boxing hearts deflating all over the globe. So what happens now? Kids with real talent won’t bother hanging around in the amateurs in the hope of getting on the Olympic squad and qualifying for the games. Win a few regional competitions, the National Golden Gloves, box internationally a few times just to say you’ve done it, THEN TURN PRO!!! F*** the Olympic Games. Why risk fighting and losing to a pro and NOT GET PAID FOR IT??? HELL NO! Turn pro yourself and get PAID FOR THAT S***! I’m done.

By the time this edition of Whatchagonnado is hot off the press there will be ONE LESS PRETENDER calling himself a ‘world’ champion at 122lbs. Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg will have gone to war in Manchester, England and unified two titles. The winner will be basking in the adulation of his fans, and looking down the road to even bigger fights in the future, having raised his stock considerably. The loser will be licking his wounds and trying to rebuild broken pride. Rebuilding will be a slow process for him.

One thing I do know though is the winner – whoever it is – will have to fight Guillermo Rigondeaux next. The winner of that fight – a HUGE match up in the UK – should be considered THE MAN at super bantamweight! And that’s the truth.

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