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Winky wants De La Hoya and Vargas

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By Paul Upham: IBF junior middleweight champion Ronald Winky Wright is looking for unification fights with WBC champion Oscar De La Hoya and WBA champion Fernando Vargas in 2002 to become boxing’s next undisputed world champion.
I’m hoping that I can get those big fights, but it all depends on how the big names want to play it. They need to fight me but maybe they won’t, said Wright. I want to fight Vargas and De La Hoya. They are the two other guys with world title belts in my weight class and that’s whom I want to fight for good money.

De La Hoya is scheduled to return on May 4 against as a yet to be determined opponent and negotiations for a unification bout with Vargas have been on and off. Wright just wants his chance at either one and feels that De La Hoya is looking for an easier payday.

It definitely does look like that. I don’t know why, said Wright. If De La Hoya didn’t want to fight Vargas then he should have asked me. I’ve got the IBF belt.

Wright, a former WBO junior middleweight world champion, won the IBF belt in October with a 12 round points victory over Robert Frazier. His main priority now is to unify the junior middleweight division, though he would consider a shot at undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins.

If they want to pay me, then sure I’d face Hopkins. But they won’t even pay Hopkins the money he wants so I can’t see them paying me. But I definitely deserve it, said Wright, whose only losses have come in world title fights against Julio Cesar Vasquez, Harry Simon and Fernando Vargas.

The 30 year-old Wright, 42-3 (24), returns to the ring against IBF No.5 Jason Papillion, 34-6-1 (22), on February 2 in Miami in the main support bout to Roy Jones Junior v Glenn Kelly.

I’ve seen one tape of Papillon. He kind of boxes like Roy Jones, said Wright.
I’m training hard for him. The weather is nice and warm down here in Florida. I’ll be ready to defend my title and win.

Now promoted by Roy Jones’ company, Square Ring Inc, Wright feels that people fail to give the undisputed light heavyweight champion the respect he deserves.

Roy stepped in when others didn’t want to pay me and said he will get me the fights and pay me the money. I’d rather deal with him, said Wright. People give him a hard time telling him that he don’t fight nobody, but it’s like he says, he just make them look like nobody. They are just not in the man’s class.

Wright says that Jones is keen on a rematch with Bernard Hopkins sometime in 2002.

That fight might happen. They are talking about it and Roy says he wants to do it. Bernard says he wants to do it, so it should happen, he said.

Reigning WBC welterweight champion Sugar Shane Mosley offered Wright a January fight on HBO. Even though he considered the offer carefully, the tricky southpaw says that the scant amount of money on the table made it very easy for him to reject.

I would have taken the Mosley fight, but they didn’t want to pay no money, so that’s why I didn’t want that fight, said Wright. If they wanted to fight me, they would have offered me some good money. They didn’t want to fight. They knew what they were doing. They offered a little bit of money and they knew that I wouldn’t take it.

Wright’s goal is to unify the 154lbs division and although he has no problem facing Mosley, he’s not going to divert from his plan without good financial compensation for his family.

Just give me the money and I’ll fight anyone, he said.


Paul Upham
Contributing Editor
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