Rigondeaux sparring

[DLT]

Rigo is great but I always give more value to a righty then a lefty. I just think being a Southpaw is a super huge advantage in basically all of pro sports, none more than boxing. Most guys just arent use to seeing them. You may have 40 fights in your career and only 2 or 3 against Southpaws.

I dont understand how people dont look at this. Even Southpaws struggle with other southpaws. Thats why if I compare 2 guys at something and one is a lefty, I will give the other guy more credit because I think things are much harder to accomplish as a righty.

I fight Southpaw myself. You also see the Cubans training all there guys to fight Southpaw. If I trained someone from youth and they werent full out righties then I would convert them to Southpaw. Its an advantage, whether guys want to admit it or not

[IFightDirty]

But he has been legit hit before.. What does knockdown have to do with it? That is a measure of chin, not a measure of defense. Floyd has been hit as much if not more than Rigo has. The fact that he takes a punch better doesn't mean his defense is better.

Furthermore, the punch happened during a break. Rigo let his guard down.

I wouldn't excuse that knockdown because he anticipated a break. The round wasn't over and there was no timeout so he should have been defending himself. Part of defense is always being aware and never relaxing. Also to be fair, Rigo has only fought in 13 pro fights while Floyd has been in 46. Floyd has fought more quality opponents with varying styles than Rigo has. Rigo has world class defense but I wouldn't put him over Mayweather. Definitely a close #2 though.

[Loque-san]

Rigo is great but I always give more value to a righty then a lefty. I just think being a Southpaw is a super huge advantage in basically all of pro sports, none more than boxing. Most guys just arent use to seeing them. You may have 40 fights in your career and only 2 or 3 against Southpaws.

I dont understand how people dont look at this. Even Southpaws struggle with other southpaws. Thats why if I compare 2 guys at something and one is a lefty, I will give the other guy more credit because I think things are much harder to accomplish as a righty.

I fight Southpaw myself. You also see the Cubans training all there guys to fight Southpaw. If I trained someone from youth and they werent full out righties then I would convert them to Southpaw. Its an advantage, whether guys want to admit it or not

That's very true. They do that in the Philippines too. You will find a disproportionate number of Cuban and Filipino southpaws and a lot of them are "converted" southpaws. They are naturally right handed.

[#1Assassin]

damn, i almost fell asleep watching rigo spar.

is he being trained to bore audiences?

wow.. even the title says TECHNICAL sparring. unless you are so ****** you cant even understand what that means you should know what to expect. technical sparring, which is generally what sparring is anyways. every sparring session isnt supposed to be a war or you will be worn out before you reach 30. a true boxing fan can sit down and enjoy the technical brilliance though, this is boxing in its purest form. even with the "fight" aspect of the sport taken down to a minimum this is still highly entertaining to us real fans, shame you arent among us.

[radioraheem]

Rigo is great but I always give more value to a righty then a lefty. I just think being a Southpaw is a super huge advantage in basically all of pro sports, none more than boxing. Most guys just arent use to seeing them. You may have 40 fights in your career and only 2 or 3 against Southpaws.

I dont understand how people dont look at this. Even Southpaws struggle with other southpaws. Thats why if I compare 2 guys at something and one is a lefty, I will give the other guy more credit because I think things are much harder to accomplish as a righty.

I fight Southpaw myself. You also see the Cubans training all there guys to fight Southpaw. If I trained someone from youth and they werent full out righties then I would convert them to Southpaw. Its an advantage, whether guys want to admit it or not

While that's true, it's also a disadvantage. Southpaws get a lot of turned down fights because of that. Many are aware of the advantage, both trainers and fighters. And that's not helpful when you are a professional boxer, because the priority is make money.

[BennyST]

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IMHO not even trolling Floyd; Rigondeaux IS better defensively.

Nah, hes not. You won't catch Floyd doing daft stuff like coming out of a clinch with his hands down, standing straight up and with his chin in the air ready to get clocked.

He's good, but not as good.

[New England]

he literally looks like he's playing around. i've never seen him take a full three minutes [a round] of sparring seriously.


his problem is consistency and his chin, and that's where i see him losing to a larger fighter with a steady style and punching power.

he probably won't lose until he moves up to 130, though. seeing that he'll likely retire before then, he may end his career without a loss.


his balance is f#cking absurd. it's as good as any fighter you're going to see.

[New England]

Nah, hes not. You won't catch Floyd doing daft stuff like coming out of a clinch with his hands down, standing straight up and with his chin in the air ready to get clocked.

He's good, but not as good.

or getting dropped or hurt by the cordoba's of the world.


rigondeaux also slows late in the fight. floyd slows late in the fight now, but only because he's had almost 50 professional fights. in his prime, floyd was literally the same fighter in the 10th round that he was in the first. he would even be sharper.

[dan_cov]

Is this myth of Rigondeaux's chin ever going to die down? He ate Donaires left hook as flush as you like on more than one occasion.
He ate a 136lb Marroquinns best shots.

The 'knockdown' against Corboda was him touching down as he got clipped off balance with his lead foot in the air. He wasn't hurt in the slightest.

Floyd is better defensively because Rigo got hit with one shot, laughable.

Say whatever, you'll never see Rigondeaux on the ropes getting 7 shades knocked out of him from a fighter of Madonna's caliber.
You'd never, ever see Rigondeaux getting hit with 4 consecutive left hooks to the body and a sloppy overhand right thrown from outside the arena.

As great as Floyds defense is, Rigondeaux's defense is lightyears ahead of everyone in the sports. The man is Houdini.

[Loque-san]

or getting dropped or hurt by the cordoba's of the world.


rigondeaux also slows late in the fight. floyd slows late in the fight now, but only because he's had almost 50 professional fights. in his prime, floyd was literally the same fighter in the 10th round that he was in the first. he would even be sharper.

Floyd got dropped by Judah the same way Rigo got dropped by Cordoba.

And I don't know what you mean when you say Rigo slows late in the fight. He looks like he could go 15 rounds easy. I've never seen him breathe hard between rounds. I think he just takes less risks in the later rounds.