By Keith Idec

NEW YORK – At least one of nearly 5,000 people didn’t walk away from The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night impressed by Vasyl Lomachenko’s domination of Rocky Martinez.

Orlando Salido, the only professional fighter to defeat Lomachenko, contended Lomachenko’s spectacular fifth-round knockout of Martinez was mostly the byproduct of Martinez struggling to make the 130-pound limit for their title fight. If anyone would know about weight struggles against Lomachenko, it’s Salido. He weighed in at 128¼ pounds and gave up his WBO featherweight title at the scale the day before he edged Ukraine’s Lomachenko by split decision two years ago in Carson, California.

“Not at all,” Salido said through a translator Saturday night when asked if he was impressed by Lomachenko’s performance. “He’s just a fighter that moves a lot. I think that Rocky got hurt because of the weight. He struggled to make the weight. I’m not impressed.”

Mexico’s Salido (43-13-4, 30 KOs, 1 NC) went 0-1-1 in two fights against Puerto Rico’s Martinez (29-3-3, 17 KOs) last year.

Exactly a week after participating in the presumptive frontrunner for “Fight of the Year” against Mexico’s Francisco Vargas, Salido said he would welcome rematches with either Vargas (23-0-2, 17 KOs) or Lomachenko (6-1, 4 KOs) in his next fight. His choice, according to Salido, will depend upon which rematch would earn the 35-year-old former 126-pound and 130-pound champion more money.

“I’ll fight either of them,” Salido said. “I’m just gonna go with the best negotiation process.”

Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.