Dan Rafael labeled Hopkins/Cloud "Mastery of Craft" but Rigo "boring"

[Heru]

A fellow ESPN Writer already put him in his place...

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Floyd who? RT @morehouse17: @IGuryashkinESPN Who's that? Nobody who fights in a defensive style will ever be famous... right?
7 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Funny how writers talk wistfully and faux knowingly about Willie Pep yet complain about #Rigondeaux.
11 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
What #rigondeaux did was school a fighter most writers voted Fighter of the Year. That's elite and P4P.
13 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
and comes away unharmed that's a A+ in my book. I'm sorry you were not entertained. Stop watching Rocky movies.
14 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
I have never boxed and don't intend to. I don't like getting hit in the face. I don't like pain. So when someone does it on elite level...
14 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Let's remind writers especially. Boxing - "hit and don't get hit". Veer away and it might be more fun but it's more dangerous.
16 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Tastes are one thing, but fighters are not there to entertain you. It's your privilege as writer/fan. If you're entertained it's bonus.
20 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
whine? Please. Come off it. Appreciate a guy who comes out spotless from the ring, while the other guy had closed eye. I'm sorry you yawned.
25 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Put it in perspective. Floyd has done this for years with overmatched guys for years. Rigo was underdog, and schools Donaire and you still
26 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
and not get hit. They don't like getting hit purely for your entertainmenet. You get free seats to watch athletes lay stuff on the line.
27 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Any writer out there who whines about the way Rigo won and dominated Donaire let me say this. Fighters are paid to win. To hit and...#boxing
27 minutes ag

[Godsfly]

A fellow ESPN Writer already put him in his place...

good post...........

[Russian Crushin]

personally it's guys thats salty that donaire didn't win who's calling this fight boring (most of them) which doesn't deserve any attention.

lmao............

Show it to any casual fan and he'll call it boring. Main reason this fight isnt considered boring by so many is because it was expected to be boring. There were very little exchanges in the fight, that much is clear. If you find 2 guys keeping distance and barely throwing all night "exciting" then all power to you, but lets not make it out to be some crazy exciting fight. Like i said most of the excitement came from anticipation of something possibly happening next

[KnockUTheFukOut]

Nothing wrong with "BORING" look at the current Top 10 P4P, most of them have been labeled "BORING" so when your called "BORING" by the Casual Fans and Casual Fans Pretending To Be Boxing Experts....THAT IS A HONOR IN BOXING TODAY!

[Godsfly]

Show it to any casual fan and he'll call it boring. Main reason this fight isnt considered boring by so many is because it was expected to be boring. There were very little exchanges in the fight, that much is clear. If you find 2 guys keeping distance and barely throwing all night "exciting" then all power to you, but lets not make it out to be some crazy exciting fight. Like i said most of the excitement came from anticipation of something possibly happening next

i don't even care about casual fans.....If your main focus is on casuals then more power to you buddy (but i don't care, I'm not a casual fan.)

I'm impressed of how easily rigo dismantled donaire.

most of the guys on here (the boxing forum) that are b*cthing about the excitement of the bout are actually salty about donaire not winning lmao.........so thats more of a scape goat. the fans here knew it wasn't gonna be a rios vs alvarado. so if b*tching about excitement is all you see them doing on here.......it means their salty that donaire was brutally dismantled lmao

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

A fellow ESPN Writer already put him in his place...

Quote:

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Floyd who? RT @morehouse17: @IGuryashkinESPN Who's that? Nobody who fights in a defensive style will ever be famous... right?
7 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Funny how writers talk wistfully and faux knowingly about Willie Pep yet complain about #Rigondeaux.
11 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
What #rigondeaux did was school a fighter most writers voted Fighter of the Year. That's elite and P4P.
13 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
and comes away unharmed that's a A+ in my book. I'm sorry you were not entertained. Stop watching Rocky movies.
14 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
I have never boxed and don't intend to. I don't like getting hit in the face. I don't like pain. So when someone does it on elite level...
14 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Let's remind writers especially. Boxing - "hit and don't get hit". Veer away and it might be more fun but it's more dangerous.
16 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Tastes are one thing, but fighters are not there to entertain you. It's your privilege as writer/fan. If you're entertained it's bonus.
20 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
whine? Please. Come off it. Appreciate a guy who comes out spotless from the ring, while the other guy had closed eye. I'm sorry you yawned.
25 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Put it in perspective. Floyd has done this for years with overmatched guys for years. Rigo was underdog, and schools Donaire and you still
26 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
and not get hit. They don't like getting hit purely for your entertainmenet. You get free seats to watch athletes lay stuff on the line.
27 minutes ago

IGuryashkinESPN Igor Guryashkin
Any writer out there who whines about the way Rigo won and dominated Donaire let me say this. Fighters are paid to win. To hit and...#boxing
27 minutes ag

What's this guy's name? He owned that fat ****. I will read his **** from now on.


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[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

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Originally Posted by pigsfly

personally it's guys thats salty that donaire didn't win who's calling this fight boring (most of them) which doesn't deserve any attention.

lmao............

Show it to any casual fan and he'll call it boring. Main reason this fight isnt considered boring by so many is because it was expected to be boring. There were very little exchanges in the fight, that much is clear. If you find 2 guys keeping distance and barely throwing all night "exciting" then all power to you, but lets not make it out to be some crazy exciting fight. Like i said most of the excitement came from anticipation of something possibly happening next

The only problem is, Fat Boy isn't no casual. He's a boxing writer.

#DealWithIt #Bitter


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[Godsfly]

thats exactly what is. bitterness that donaire didn't win "the excitement thing is a scape goat" for being bitter lmao

easy to see through fat dan and the ones who takes his rout LMAO.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Nvm I just noticed Fat Boy was owned by a dude named "Igor". That's gotta suck... But I love it.


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[DoktorSleepless]

In general, I think Rigo is more entertaining than Ward and Hopkins, but what bothers me is that Rigo didn't take the opportunity to put on a starmaking performance when it most counted and just mostly played it safe in cruise-control. This is especially important for a guy like Rigo who wasn't born in the US. Even with this great win, it's very unlike HBO will give him another headline spot unless it's a Donaire rematch. He'll at least get some HBO undercard spots, but he could forget ever seeing another big HBO paycheck.

Ward actually fought like a guy wanted to become a star in his HBO debut so I'm warming up to him.