Top Rank signs champion Nicholas Waters

According to Dan Rafael of .com, WBA Featherweight champion Nicholas Waters has signed a promotional deal with and will defend his title on November 9th in Corpus Christie, Texas.

“We found out he was [a free agent] and we jumped on him because, obviously, we are concentrating on that division,” siad Top Rank CEO . “We have some major fights that can be made there and the more good fighters you can have in that , the better the fights you can make.

“So now we have [titleholder Evgeny] Gradovich, the winner of the Orlando Salido-Orlando Cruz [vacant title] fight [on Oct. 12], Walters, , we just signed [two-time Olympic gold medalist Vasyl] Lomachenko and there’s [junior featherweight champ] . So there are a lot of great fights we want to do in that division.”

“It’s a dream and a privilege come true for me to be with Top Rank, as they have made many great fighters with the likes of [Muhammad] Ali, [Sugar Ray] Leonard and [Oscar] De La Hoya, just to name a few,” Walters said. “I hope that they will help me reach my different goals in the future.”

“I know that Nicholas is a spirited and a disciplined fighter whose style will please the boxing fans of America and he will be an exciting TV fighter, which will make both Top Rank and HBO happy,” manager Jacques Deschamps said.

“He’s a capable and strong son of a gun,” Arum said. “He’s heavy handed and he comes forward and makes a good fight. He’s a good puncher and he’ll make a pleasing fight and we can put him with any of these we have and HBO will buy it. “I talked to Donaire, for example, and he’d love to fight him next year. The guys aren’t going to duck him. So we needed to get him a fight before the end of the year, so we’ll have him on the card in Corpus Christi and then look for a bigger fight for him next year.