Comments Thread For: Rigo-Lomachenko Bout Presents Civilized Alternative

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I'd rather see lomo-donaire and rigo-kiko martinez

[DannYankee]

smh Lomachenko would lose in a shutout he not slick enough for Rigo.

[bojangles1987]

It's crazy that they're pushing Rigo-Lomo so hard already. Vasyl is highly talented, but it'll be a while before he's ready to challenge Guillermo. Then again, if this fight doesn't happen early in Lomachenko's career, he might get too physically big to fight Rigo. Even now, asking "El Chacal" to fight above 122 is like pulling teeth. I don't think there will ever be a right time for this match-up. Someone's going to be at a disadvantage.

If Lomachenko beats Salido, they should probably just go ahead with it next year at some point, or early 2015 at the latest. If the guy can beat Salido, he's clearly world class.

[BendOver]

Oh OK. I thought he may have been talking about in the amateurs or something.

He did beat mares at the Panam Games...

[lopez36]

He is going to have to if he wants to make money. He won't get the big fights and the top guys at 122 will bypass him by moving to 126 or 130. There won't be a demand for them to fight Rigo.
This kind of thing has happened before. Remember Marquez? Dude was not as difficult to watch as Rigo was but still had a hard time getting an audience. Barrera, Morales, Hamed all bypassed him, and no one really cared. Wasn't until he became more aggressive with more of a killer instinct that he got an audience.
And I don't think its ignorant to say the way he fights is be
yond boring. It is professional sports not the amateurs. As I said there are many defensive fighters and counterpunches who have made fan friendly fights. He doesn't.

marquez actually said this last week,that after the medina fight he needed to be a bit more aggressive but in a smart way,you can go in with head movement,with smart defense at the same time,if you are really good you can do that,i just think it's the fear in some boxers

[sugarsmosley]

Lomachenko already said on twitter he's fighting salido for the WBO fw title in march.

btw, people saying rigo landed 17% of his shots against agbeko.. is this true? i didnt watch the fight

[BendOver]

He is going to have to if he wants to make money. He won't get the big fights and the top guys at 122 will bypass him by moving to 126 or 130. There won't be a demand for them to fight Rigo.
This kind of thing has happened before. Remember Marquez? Dude was not as difficult to watch as Rigo was but still had a hard time getting an audience. Barrera, Morales, Hamed all bypassed him, and no one really cared. Wasn't until he became more aggressive with more of a killer instinct that he got an audience.

And I don't think its ignorant to say the way he fights is be
yond boring. It is professional sports not the amateurs. As I said there are many defensive fighters and counterpunches who have made fan friendly fights. He doesn't.

By saying and quote"It is professional sports not the amateurs." you meant that an amateur fighter will beat a pro fighter the way Rigondeaux does? It should be that any professional fighter should be able to handle any amateur boxer, specially if this amateur has only a handful of fights...

[BendOver]

Lomachenko already said on twitter he's fighting salido for the WBO fw title in march.

btw, people saying rigo landed 17% of his shots against agbeko.. is this true? i didnt watch the fight

That number is misleading, they count dozens of feints that Rigondeaux does when he knows that is nothing coming back at him

[Motofan]

Lumping Marquez in with Gatti and Froch?!? Punch yourself in the balls.

[dogfish]

rigo's matches should be a second main fight at the Top Rank PPV events. This would be a perfect solution.