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WBO super featherweight world champion Vasyl Lomachenko #1 with +20.1 plus/minus rating - only fighter with a +20 or better rating. Loma landed nearly half his power punches, while throwing 62.8 per round (Rigo avg'd 49 in 6 fights at 122 lbs.).
Lomachenko, Rigondeaux - CompuBox Categorical Leaders - Two of the top ten pound-for-pound fighters in the world collide for the WBO Junior Lightweight World Title as champion Vasiliy Lomachenko (9-1-0, 7 KO) defends his belt against the unbeaten WBA Super Bantamweight world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-0-0, 11 KO). Saturday’s fight marks the first time in boxing history that two-time Olympic Gold Medal winners will face each other at the professional level.
There are competing cards tonight on HBO and ESPN, where both have broadcasts featuring fighters from the super featherweight class. ESPN has the showdown between WBO world champion Vasyl Lomachenko and challenger Guillermo Rigondeaux in a battle of two-time Olympic gold medal winners from the Theater in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Boxing is entertainment. Boxing is also a sport. Not all sporting events wind up delivering entertainment to the masses and not all boxers are born entertainers. Cuba’s Guillermo Rigondeaux can be a masterful craftsman when it comes to the sport of boxing. His entertainment value is variable.
NEW YORK – Shakur Stevenson is looking forward to sitting ringside Saturday night, watching the two most-decorated fellow Olympians in boxing go at it. Stevenson plans to take many mental notes while watching Vasyl Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux match skills and boxing IQs in The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Mandalay Bay, LAS VEGAS, NV - Orlando Salido (44-13-4) is very focused with the task at hand. On Saturday he faces rugged Mickey Roman (57-12) in the main event of a HBO televised triple header. Across the country in New York, there is another big fight taking place in the 130 pound division. For the first time ever, two two-time Olympic gold medalists will square off when Vasyl Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux enter the ring.
The stage is set for one of the most anticipated boxing matches in years. Vasyl Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux headline later tonight at the Madison Square Garden Theater in Manhattan, New York. Negotiations for a super-fight between the two-time Olympic gold medalists had been on and off for years but a number of reasons prevented the matchup to come together.
Vasyl Lomachenko is a heavy favorite, but he's not underestimating Guillermo Rigondeaux - who the once-beaten boxer views as an intelligent, strong and very skilled opponent. On Saturday night, Lomachenko (9-1, 7 KOs) will defend his WBO super featherweight world title against Rigondeaux (17-0, 11 KOs) at The Theater in New York's Madison Square Garden.
On Saturday at a sold out Theater at Madison Square Garden, dual Olympic champions Vasyl Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux go mano a mano for the formers WBO Super Feather strap. BoxNation screen live. They’re certainly the best two technicians presently active – possibly ever – but Glynn Evans canvassed 14 leading fight faces as to who they think will emerge ‘Numero Uno’.
When two ridiculously talented southpaws, both ranked in every current top 10 pound-for-pound list, face each other in the ring, it is undoubtedly a super showdown. Throw in the fact that it is the first time in the history of the sport that a pair of two-time Olympic gold medalists will pit their wits against each other and ‘super showdown’ might actually be an understatement. It’s a crying shame that virtually nobody outside the boxing world will pay much attention to this once-in-a-lifetime collision course.