Comments Thread For: Robert Garcia: No Doubt, Donaire Beats Rigondeaux

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When it comes to trainers in the sport of boxing, you will be hard pressed to find a coach surrounded by as much talent as Robert Garcia.

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Cuauhtémoc1520

I agree, Donaire to me seems like a more complete fighter and I don't really like that amateur style that Rigo seems to use so much. Weight on the back foot, two shots at a time.....

SeivUrBref

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Originally Posted by Cuauhtémoc1520

I agree, Donaire to me seems like a more complete fighter and I don't really like that amateur style that Rigo seems to use so much. Weight on the back foot, two shots at a time.....

Most sharpshooter boxers must be amateur stylists then as well according to your logic?

4Corners

Too bad Rigondeaux doesn't excite Donaire enough to get the fight.

If it was as easy as they are saying, they'd take the fight and unify titles in a heart beat.

Big Dunn

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Originally Posted by 4Corners

Too bad Rigondeaux doesn't excite Donaire enough to get the fight.

If it was as easy as they are saying, they'd take the fight and unify titles in a heart beat.

thats where I'm at with this one. arum/garcia/matchmakers know this isn't an easy fight for donaire or they are worried he wont look good if he were to win.

Cuauhtémoc1520

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Originally Posted by AyoMaDu

Most sharpshooter boxers must be amateur stylists then as well according to your logic?

The fact that rigo had almost 400 amateur fights is proof of that so it's not like I'm stretching the truth.

To answer your question though, no. It just seems to me that Rigo fights that way all the time. I have seen sharp shooting boxers adjust to the pro ranks, much like Mark Johnson did.

At the end of the day, to be a popular boxer you need to make exciting fights and Rigo doesn't have many of them. At least Donaire takes chances to make good fights or at least tries to but some of his opponents just want to survive.

kiaba360

I really don't like when trainers start talking about who their fighter will beat. What else do we expect Garcia to say? And then they wind up making themselves look bad in the process.

brick wall

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Originally Posted by 4Corners

Too bad Rigondeaux doesn't excite Donaire enough to get the fight.

If it was as easy as they are saying, they'd take the fight and unify titles in a heart beat.

nahh it's not that easy...rigo is already asking for more money. he laughed at $200K purse so he should be expecting much more than that. HBO will not put up a $1M purse for that fight when they only gave donaire-nishioka $850K. that's why it's stupid when people compare rigo with the mathebula and narvaez fights. those guys were paid so much less.

PR ESQ.

make the fight then. simple proposition.

ddangerous

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Originally Posted by PR ESQ.

make the fight then. simple proposition.

Bingo. He's got a title, and obviously they realize a lot of fans are calling for it, or the trainer would not be subtly acknowledging it in press quotes like these.

Just make the fight, and move on.

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