Rigondeax the only loser in fight with Donaire

[elfag]

arum expected Donaire to win and now hes going to punish rigo from the sounds of it. Hes already going on about how its going to be hard to promote him and ****.

I thought Doniare would KO him so Rigo deserves his due but I see them giving him crap fights and trying to find someone easy like Darchiniyan II for Donaire to get him back on track.

[SERVILEV]

donaire was definitely outboxed and deserved to lose the decision. However, i don't think he lost much else during the course of the fight, if it can even be called a fight. Rigondeax's style was so painfullly boring to watch that boos could be heard from the crowd as early as the 3rd round and continued until even after the final bell.

What fans observed was donaire attempting to cut off the ring and putting himself at a significant disadvantage just to try and make any kind of fight of the match at all.

Rigondeax, on the other hand, approached the fight as if he was the champion who's belt needed to be taken. And, even at that, he still chose an extremely cowardice approach, often seen jogging around the ring to avoid contact.

Rigondeax's strategy worked. He forced a better fighter to consistently give up his advantage to try and make the fight a fight, and he was just effective enough with his potshotting to to warrant taking 8 of the 12 scheduled rounds.

In the process, however, rigondeax may have hurt his stock more than he helped it. Boxing is only partly about winning. In fact, the sport is mostly about entertaining the fans. And, at the end of the day, the fans were bored to tears with this fight, and they know who to blame: Guillermo rigondeaux.

Nonito donaire, on the other hand, maintains his stock and appeal, and has almost certainly learned a valuable lesson from his fight with rigondeax. That lesson is simply this: Don't fight boring "fighters" like rigondeax. It's a no win situation. Yeah, you may be able to run him down and get him out of there. But you could possibly fail to run him down, and look very bad trying to.

Donaire is to be commended for fighting the best, and trying to give the fans what they want. In the future, however, he will be well advised to only take on fighters that will come to fight.

This is, afterall, the entertainment business.

Oh, and don't hold your breath for a rematch, either. The best way donaire can even the score with rigondeax is to let him drown in his own pitiful stock.

That's my 2 cents.

shut up!!!! Lmbo!! Heres what happened! The more seasoned better fighter won the fight!! Get over it and move on......

[thuggery]

Alts galore ITT.

[DeadLikeMe]

Butthurt general?

[JAB5239]

You guys gotta learn to come clean and give credit where its due. Rigo has 12 fights and beat one of the best p4p fighters in the world. In the next few years he should only get better with experience. This kid has wicked talent.

[THE REED]

Here's my 2 cents on the matter.

Agreed....

[Grimgash]

Rigo won the fight, but lost in the business aspect of things. There's no denying that. He showed he was very unmarketable and won't be likely to get big fights without taking a purse cut, more than likely....if he even gets them.

Like another poster said....the media gives more respect to Cotto for losing to Mayweather than they do Rigo for beating Donaire... that says all you really need to know. He's an incredible talent, but is not someone you want to put money / effort behind to promote because it'll be a nightmare.

[John Barron]

[ΣL CHAPO]

His style will only appeal to the purist but the sad part of that equation is that the purist do not command the dominating portion of the money to be made.

So with real boxing fans and purist will know how great Rigo is and how offically he is a dangerous fight for anyone but to the mainstream casual fans will always reduce Rigo to nothing more then a scared running fighter.

The casual fans are the money who pays the bills and write the paychecks for everyone involved in boxing, So boxing will always cater to them.

Boxing is a business, doesn't matter who deserves it, its who can sell it.

Too bad even nowadays the ranking bodies are such trash he still wont get his props ranking wise because of the ranking/sanctioning bodies being in bed with particular promotional company and or certain fighters.

my 2 cents on the matter

[hitman smax]

His style will only appeal to the purist but the sad part of that equation is that the purist do not command the dominating portion of the money to be made.

So with real boxing fans and purist will know how great Rigo is and how offically he is a dangerous fight for anyone but to the mainstream casual fans will always reduce Rigo to nothing more then a scared running fighter.

The casual fans are the money who pays the bills and write the paychecks for everyone involved in boxing, So boxing will always cater to them.

Boxing is a business, doesn't matter who deserves it, its who can sell it.

Too bad even nowadays the ranking bodies are such trash he still wont get his props ranking wise because of the ranking/sanctioning bodies being in bed with particular promotional company and or certain fighters.

my 2 cents on the matter

Actually, even a true boxing purist has to have a bad taste in his/her mouth after watching a fighter literally jogging around the ring at times and rarely engaging the other fighter.

That's not boxing. In fact, had Donaire refused to pursue Rigondeaux, Rigondeaux would likely have received instruction from the ref to engage or suffer the possibility of disqualification. I've seen fighters disqualified for failure to engage, although I've never seen it happen outside of the heavyweight division.

The reason Donaire didn't take the route is because he may have ended up suffering some damage to his stock in the process.

Donaire is a big draw because the fans see that he is committed to entertaining them. Allowing doubt about that committment to set in would have made Donaire as much a loser on the business end as Rigondeaux was in this fight.