By Carlos Boogs, Ryan Burton

Egis Klimas, manager of WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (5-1, 3KOs), has indicated that super featherweight contender Nicholas Walters (26-0-1, 21KOs) is pricing himself out and being unreasonable.

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes both fighters, is attempting to match Lomachenko and Walters for June 11th at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

When their negotiations first began, there was an issue regarding the weight. Walters lost his WBA title on the scale last year and then made the full jump to 130-pounds.

Weight is no longer the issue as Lomachenko is willing to vacate his title and fight him at 130. Now Walters is requesting more and more money, and Arum is unable to secure further funds from HBO.

According to Klimas, Walters was offered $500,000 for the fight. He wants a sizable increase.

"Why should Walters get more money? He's not a champion. Lomachenko is going into his weight class. Now he's getting all of the advantages, money and Lomachenko offering him another $300,000 from his purse," Klimas said.

To solve the monetary problem, Lomachenko personally offered Walters an additional $300,000 - if Walters won their fight. Lomachenko is willing to submit that clause into their fight contract, to legally allow Arum to remove 300K from his purse and submit it to Walters.

"He's 100% serious. He's saying 'come fight me, you beat me and I'll give you $300,000. Let the promoter take it from my purse and put it into your purse on the contract,'" Klimas said. "That's the thing about Lomachenko. He wants to fight the best, he doesnt want to just go in the ring and fight anybody."

Klimas is hoping that Lomachenko's next opponent is finalized within the next two weeks. The last time he fought was back in November, when he knocked out Romulo Koasicha in a voluntary defense.

"As far as I know they should wrap it up already by the end of this week or the beginning of next week....because it's time to start training....June 11th is around the corner. Lomachenko needs to start looking for sparring partners. He is already training, but once you have a date and an opponent then you know what you are training for," Klimas said.