Nicholas Walters vs Vasyl Lomachenko Is NOT Going To Be Very Competitive

Little word regarding the Gamalier Rodriguez fight:
In Vasyl's recent fight with Gammy, we saw his father telling him that he's punching too hard. In Vasyl's amateur fights, a lot of the time they were practising a certain technique. The aim of this fight was really to showboat and frustrate his opponent with an array of skills not seen before.
Vasyl's style also is to throw the smaller punches to find openings, setting up a bigger shot. Now Lomachenko seems to also be using those smaller punches to point score whilst also making it emphasise ring generalship (another factor in point scoring).
The Gammy fight was in some ways a really good prep for Walters.

Little word regarding the Salido fight:
Remember this, Lomachenko will only really have problems with an awkward pressure fighter who's much bigger than Lomachenko, and defends very well to the body. Salido was all of them things, although Lomachenko would beat Salido again, an elite big awkward pressure fighter is the style that'll trouble Loma the most (the same problem Mayweather has).

Anyway, the Salido fight doesn't mean anything when considering Walters.
Salido was a welterweight + 40 low blows + a lot of those low blows set up follow-up scoring punches which is unfair, as well as give the impression of effective aggression.
Lomachenko has completely learned from that and will not allow for dirty tactics anymore.


A word about Walters:
Walters although a bigger fighter naturally, is NOT a stylistic threat. Lomachenko has seen countless guys like Walters.
Take a look at Walter's footwork - that says most of the story lol.
Also, Walters uses a high guard to defend himself, this is Lomachenko's dream. The two facets will see Lomachenko pull out some youtube highlight combinations. Loma will do very well turning Walters, Lomachenko's lateral movement will be a massive key in this fight, and will be instrumental in Lomachenko's ring generalship winning rounds.


I love watching Lomachenko against orthodox fighters. His inevitable establishment of lead foot position being outside of Walter's lead foot is going to have Walters frustrated. Walters will especially be limited in punch variety.

Look at Walters' back foot upon defending against an opponent lol. Planted, forcing him to become static and in the case of Loma, lost.
Therefore, although Walters seems to get competitive advantages from his longer range and wide stance, this will be nullified by the above.
Donaire's offense is pretty embarrassing actually. You must have watched that fight and it seemed to have given you the idea that Walters is going to be a brutal aggressor.

Lomachenko is vulnerable to right hands to the body, a problem he's never adequately addressed and even Gammy landed a few good rights there. Walters dropped Donaire on one of these. He also has to be very careful when turning away from Walters, from the ropes. Walters can land a damaging hook.
For all I know, Walters' power could be more devastating than I originally thought. I can't make a firm judgement as of yet considering 'Darchinyan and 126lbs' sounds like a comedic phrase, obviously he was going to get his head taken off. Donaire is a truly mediocre fighter (in the weight classes he's meant for).

I'm really confused how people think this is a competitive fight. What am I missing here, guys? I haven't studied Walters meticulously but there are glaring features.
Let this fight marinate, let Walters continue to win so when Lomachenko wins, he'll make a firm impression on everyone.

Although I'm obviously rooting for Lomachenko, I'm a big fan of Walters. He's got an awesome personality.

Concluding remarks regarding the landscape of 126lbs:
I haven't seen anything of Vetyeka. After this current tournament of the champions Walters-Lomachenko-Selby-Gradovich-Russell Jr is done, I'd love to see the inevitable victor Loma defend against the winner of Valdez-Santa Cruz-Mares (the winner would be Valdez from the three).
Then Lomachenko can put all of his belts on the line against a Rigondeaux who moves up to 126.
Loma would then vacate and move up to 130.
I haven't been on this site for a while, I probably wont be back for a long time.

 

Serge, I'm assuming you're joking.
Those ratings are abysmal. I'm guessing they had the Lomachenko-Russell Jr fight 115-113.