Guillermo Rigondeaux Eyes March Return, Starting From Scratch

By Elisinio Castillo

Former world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux is expecting to fight again sometime in the month of March He was last in the ring in November, when he dominated Filipino Drian Francisco over ten rounds at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The bout was part of the Miguel Cotto-Canelo Alvarez Pay-Per-View undercard.

As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Rigondeaux was not pleased with his performance and reconnected with his former trainer, Cuban coach Pedro Diaz.

Diaz was at Rigondeaux's side when the former two-time Olympic gold medal winner beat Nonito Donaire to unify the WBA/WBO world titles at super bantamweight.

Rigondeaux (16-0, 10 KOs) is making some changes and claims that he is starting from scratch with everything in camp and will learn new tactics that he plans to use in his upcoming fight.

"Yes, it will be essential [to start over] and I think that I'm going to leave everything old behind. These last weeks, there has been a lot of reflecting and I am committed to putting new things into action that will give a boost to my career," Rigondeaux told George Ebro. "Let's say that I'm starting from zero with blank mind to do what my team and I want to do."

"We are going to start by saying that Pedro is not a new coach. I decided to bring him back, because he is a person who knows that I want to do. He is very organized, plans training as it should be."

"I am certainly not a new fighter, but of course there is always room for change. Nothing is impossible and always, at any age, new items can be learned and you can implement ideas. Things are not written in stone  I will continue to demonstrate that I am the best. To everyone who says that I do nothing but hit and run, now I'm going to stand in the middle of the ring and I'm not going to run anywhere. To win, I do not need to move myself. I'll be right there, in the middle of the ring."