By Elisinio Castillo

Alex Bornote, co-manager of WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (18-0, 12 KOs), says he is "calling the bluff" of Egis Klimas, manager of WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (8-1, 6 KOs).

In an earlier interview with BoxingScene.com's Steve Kim, Klimas said he was tired of hearing Rigondeaux call out his fighter - and dared the Cuban boxer to come up to 130-pounds.

Klimas told BoxingScene.com - "I'm sick and tired of all the nonsense on Twitter, the media, whatever, like Rigondeaux calling Lomachenko. It's like Lomachenko calling out (Terence) Crawford, 'Hey, come down to 130 and we're going to fight' and then say,'OK, I called Crawford, he's afraid to fight me' - just as an example."

And Klimas added:

"When Lomachenko was fighting at 126 and was a champion at 126, the offer was put on the table to fight but then they didn't fight. I believe even two times it was offered to Rigondeaux to fight Lomachenko at 126," Klimas recalled.

"They didn't want to come up to fight at 126. They said, 'Oh, let's do a catch-weight at 124'. But that never happened. Lomachenko was a 126-pound fighter, he was a champion at 126 and he says, 'Come here, we can fight.' "Now, Lomachenko comes up to 130 and even thinking of going to 135, these guys start calling. He's still a 122-pound fighter and he's calling Lomachenko to look back. But [is he] willing to come to 130? Come to 130, be my guest. That's what it is. Come to 130 and be my guest to fight Lomachenko."

Bornote says his boxer is ready to go, but expects Klimas to walk away from the fight - after his other star boxer, Sergey Kovalev, was stopped in eight rounds last Saturday night by Andre Ward in Las Vegas. Rigondeaux appeared in the co-feature of that event.

"We accept your offer to fight at 130-pounds. Best fight the best at any weight and Rigo is the best fighter in the world pound-for-pound. So here you go Team Lomachenko - your bluff has been called. Now it's your turn to either fold or call. And I seem to believe after what Andre Ward did to Egis' other fighter this past weekend, I guarantee they will fold," Bornote said in a statement to BoxingScene.com.