Ricardo Cordoba: Rigondeaux, This is Not The Amateurs

By Jhonny Gonzalez

Experienced super bantamweight Ricardo "El Maestrito" Córdoba (37-2, 23KOs) is planning to send two time Olympic gold medal winner Guillermo Rigondeaux (6-0, 5KOs) back to the amateurs. Some have called Rigondeaux the best amateur fighter of all time. Cordoba has agreed to fight him on the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito undercard on November 13 in Texas' Cowboys Stadium. Cordoba is training in Miami, Folrida with Orlando Cuéllar

"The fight is now official, we're just training hard to get well prepared for this commitment," Cordoba said. "He has more experience than me as an amateur, but this is professional boxing and it's two different things," said Cordoba to Gustavo Aparicio.

"El Maestrito" is right now training on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, at the gym, and working with cuban fighters Luis Franco and Ramsés Barthelemy, and Jamaican boxer Nicholas Walters.