Guillermo Rigondeaux: record, next fight and profile →
Alex Bornote, manager for former world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-0-1, 11 KOs), believes his boxer will now have a very difficult time securing fights at 122-pounds - after getting stripped of his WBA world title. Rigondeaux moved up by two weight division last month, and was stopped in the sixth round by WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko.
As BoxingScene.com reported on Tuesday, the World Boxing Association made good on their November decision, as they stripped two-time Olympic gold medal winner Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-1, 11 KOs) of the WBA "super" title at 122-pounds.
The World Boxing Association made good on their November decision, as they stripped two-time Olympic gold medal winner Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-1, 11 KOs) of the WBA "super" title at 122-pounds.
Al Bernstein, Hall of Fame expert analyst and longtime member of the Showtime Sports broadcast team, always believed Guillermo Rigondeaux was in way over his head in the contest with Vasyl Lomachenko from a few weeks ago. Rigondeaux was the WBA super bantamweight champion and moved up by eight pounds, two full weight divisions, to challenge Lomachenko for the vacant WBO super featherweight title.
Earlier this month, WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux took a huge risk when he moved up in weight, by two full divisions, to challenge WBO super featherweight world champion Vasyl Lomachenko. Before a sold-out crowd at The Theater in Madison Square Garden, Rigondeaux was dominated for six rounds and refused to continue any further.
The former pound for pound king, Floyd Mayweather Jr., was not very impressed with Vasyl Lomachenko's one-sided stoppage of Guillermo Rigondeaux, which took place last Saturday night at The Theater in New York's Madison Square Garden. The fight was heavily hyped, as it was the first fight in boxing history to match two, two-time Olympic gold medal winners in the ring with each other.
Former two division world champion and Golden Boy executive Bernard Hopkins was very impressed with last week's big win by WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko, who made Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-1, 11 KOs) quit after six rounds of action at The Theater in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Veteran Cuban trainer Pedro Diaz has come out in defense of his boxer, two-time Olympic gold medal winner Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-1, 11 KOs). Last Saturday night at The Theater in Madison Square Garden in New York City, Rigondeaux suffered his first defeat as a pro when he refused to continue fighting beyond the sixth round of his title fight with WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs). The fight was a historic meeting of two amateur boxing legends, with each fighter capturing a gold medal in two Olympic games.
Former IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) is on the comeback trail. It was recently announced that Brook will return on March 3rd in Sheffield, when he makes his official junior middleweight debut against Sergey Rabchenko, who won two in a row since getting knocked out by Tony Harrison last year.
The World Boxing Association is moving forward to strip Cuban boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux of his WBA super bantamweight world title. Last Saturday night at The Theater in Madison Square Garden in New York City, Rigondeaux moved up two weight divisions to challenge Vasyl Lomachenko for the WBO super featherweight title.