By Steve Kim

There has been some online recent back-and-forthing between the representatives of WBO super featherweight titlist Vasyl Lomachenko and the man who defeated him in his second pro bout, Orlando Salido. The hope is that they will engage in a fall rematch but it seems as though things are already getting bogged down during early negotiations.

Egis Klimas, who handles the career of Lomachenko told BoxingScene.com over the weekend - "Let me put it this way, Salido is yelling he can beat Lomachenko and he wants a lot of money. So in my case, if he is so sure he can beat Lomachenko - he can go with any money possible because the next one will be a big payday for him.

"Just like an example was when (Sergey) Kovalev was sure he can beat (Bernard) Hopkins and we didn't even look at the payday. We were looking at the big picture because after Hopkins he became somebody. I understand Salido has been in wars, I understand Salido considered to be in 'fight of the year' but no matter what in the last fight he got the draw with Francisco Vargas."

On June 4th, Salido and Vargas put on a memorable battle at the StubHub that was ruled a draw, meaning Vargas retained his WBC 130-pound belt.

"If Salido would have right now the WBC title and Lomachenko have WBO, that means something," continued Klimas. "He can ask for even more money than Lomachenko but right now he's not in the situation where to tell Lomachenko to 'give me more money and I will fight you.' F*** you. There are plenty of guys to fight before a Salido."

Klimas says that Lomachenko's return to the ring will happen,''no later than November.'' Lomachenko last fought on June 11th where he stopped Rocky Martinez in five rounds in what was a scintillating performance.

The bottom line with Klimas is that Lomachenko will go belt-hunting.

"Listen, we have a (Jose) Pedraza, we have a (Jezreel) Corrales, we have (Jason) Sosa. We're aiming at champions. We're aiming to unify titles. That's our goal. I believe that's the goal for Top Rank I believe that's the goal of our team. That's what we want to do," stated Klimas.

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.