Rigondeaux's Manager Gary Hyde's Open Letter to Bob Arum

[DoktorSleepless]

That's his point. Hyde is saying his team didn't choose Agbeko.

So who else did Hyde have in mind? He can pretend all he wants that he didn't want Agbeko, but unless he could name an alternative, it's a completely moot that he didn't want Agbeko. I'm sure ideally Arum didn't ideally want Agbeko either, but you have to work with what's available.

Again, which opponents that meets this criteria did Hyde have in mind?

[-PBP-]

So who else did Hyde have in mind? He can pretend all he wants that they didn't want Agbeko, but unless they could name an alternative, it's a completely moot that he didn't want Agbeko. I'm sure ideally Arum didn't ideally want Agbeko either, but you have to work with what's available.

If he's pretending like you're accusing him of I'm sure Arum will refute his comments pretty soon. I would hope he's smart enough not to release false information to the media.

[DoktorSleepless]

If he's pretending like you're accusing him of I'm sure Arum will refute his comments pretty soon. I would hope he's smart enough not to release false information to the media.

Either Hyde is pretending or he's living in a fantasy land where he thinks Arum can force anyone he wants to fight Rigo.

Agbeko was in the fact the best available opponent. How many other guys do you know of that were screaming to get in the ring with Rigo?

[RSBonos]

I'm sick of reading 1001 excuses in favor of Rigo. He drew record low ratings...the people have spoken. He is very skilled but the casuals will never care.

[A-Wolf]

People coming in fabricating arguments when it's painfully clear Arum has been on a hit campaign to try and destroy Rigo's livelihood. Nice one, fellas.

[285Kid]

Chris Avalos vs Rigondeaux should be his last fight at HBO

[Grimgash]

Even in those "boring" fights minus really Garcia's, they put forth an effort at least, manny threw some hard shots, floyd landed a lot of power punches....Rigo threw a lot of trout-ish jabs at air, and landed almost none...while his power shots were landing at 41% against a guy with little defense. 17% connect rate against a non defensive fighter is bad bad news.

[CubanGuyNYC]

If a world class fighter wants to survive and makes up his mind to do so, he will.



No he didn't. Agbeko set a record for least amount of punches thrown in a fight. He beat Randall ****in Bailey. Stevens was fighting back and showed a lot of heart in that fight.



That's ******. A professional athlete's job is to win. In Rigo's case, he is more marketable undefeated and holding world titles than he is with a loss. Guys like Canelo and Rios can lose 3 times and still sell. If Rigo takes a loss his career is over. He doesn't have the ability to take risks like others do. And then there is the risk of getting robbed if he opens up and lets his opponent hit him.



Navaraez, Clottey, Guerrero, Burgos and numerous other fighters showed up to survive and much more offensive minded fighters were unable to finish them. Rigo is just the scapegoat because he's an easy target to pick on.



Arum is the one that signed him to a lucrative contract worth a half a million per fight. He knew damn well how Rigo fought, his lack of English speaking skills and his weight class way before the contracts were signed. Now he's trying to blame Rigo for his own ******ity.




Boxers are professional athletes and in order to have a long successful, lucrative hall of fame career, you have to keep winning. Being boring isn't as bad as losing.



Arum shouldn't be telling fighters how to fight. His job is to promote. If you feel you can't do our job, then give somebody else a chance to try it out.



Its irrelevant because casuals don't give a **** about the 122 pound division. It had its moments when you had the popular Mexican fighters back in the day and Nonito with the Filipino fanbase but other than that, nobody gives a **** about this division.



It's boxing management 101. You build fighters up by feeding them opponents to make them look good. Like with GGG. That's why slick fighters are avoided so much. Why do you think Kirkland, a 154 pounder is getting a shot over a proven MW like Sergio Mora?



Rigo didn't look bad against Agbeko. He actually fought a perfect fight and looked great. It was just one sided and lacked action.

Masterly post.

[bose]

Donaire vs Narvaez, Pacquiao vs Clottey/Mosley were boring. That was not Donaire/Pac's fault. Why were Donaire-Arce/Montiel/Vazquez Jr exciting? Why was did Pacquiao find it so easy to hit Hatton/Cotto/Margarito and got his fans excited?

Give Rigondeaux the line up of Arce, Montiel and Vazquez Jr and watch him light them up since they will come forward and they will not use defense.

Let's see Rigondeaux vs Santa Cruz n Showtime and watch it be exciting.

Arum is simply bitter about Rigo beating his most prized lower weight possession and has now started a rare smear campaign against his own fighter, something he resorts to doing to rival promoters fighters. Instead of giving him defenseless fighters like he did to Donaire and Pacquiao, he gives him a dirty fighter in Agbeko. Dirty fighter vs Defensive fighter = Terrible match up and Arum, that ****ing fossil, knows this.

In other words feed him the Mezicans.

Rigo just that good and its a shame he not getting his respect!

[ShoulderRoll]

Can you imagine signing with a promoter only to have him constantly talking **** about you?