Comments Thread For: McGuigan: Frampton is The Best at 122, Not Rigondeaux

[Dirk Diggler UK]

AKA, dont **** on my guy because he wont fight Rigondeaux.

Lets be honest, nobody in the division is even close to being on Rigondeaux level.

They are all 3 levels below him, which is why none of them are interested in fighting him.

All the talk of, oh there is no money in fighting Rigondeaux. Thats right, there isn't money in fighting him, because you take a loss, and can't demand over inflated pay days anymore.

He kicks you off the gravy train.

Not really. I don't think there's any shame in losing to Rigondeaux and it certainly wouldn't kill any of Frampton's popularity at home.

Frampton-Quigg is a huge fight that's been brewing for years. It makes too much sense not to happen next in the summer where they can do it in an outdoor venue.

At the end of the day, fighters look out for their own interests and Rigondeaux does the same. Why doesn't he move up in weight? Oh that's right because he sees the money in guys like Frampton or Santa Cruz. Once again, stop acting like Rigo just fights out of the goodness of his heart.

[MrRolltide91]

Child please

[Weebler I]

I can't believe a win over the overrated Chris Avalos makes you the best 122lb in Boxing.

Avalos was Rigo's mando and he pussed out to go fight Frampton. Rigo used to whoop on Avalos so bad in sparring at the Wild card that Avalos stopped showing up until Rigo left the Wild card gym. Then years after this Avalos has been nothing but trash talking his way to a title shot.

If Frampton doesn't fight Rigo next or before the year is over then yes it is a duck.

The whole "he doesn't sell and has no fanbase" is the worst excuse ever. So he doesn't sell but fighters like Kiko Martinez and Avalos do????

Kiko had the title, Avalos was the mando.

Quigg is actually the biggest fight for Frampton financially, but I think the Rigo fight happens if not late this year, then early next year.

[Boxingwizard]

BS excuses? No it's just reality. Boxers fight for money. Rigondeaux fights for money too, he's not above it. The money fight in the division is against Quigg and it's clearly in his best interests to take that first.

After he beats Quigg, there's no one else left seeing as Santa Cruz will have run off to featherweight. Rigo-Frampton will have to happen.

The excuse that Frampton team didn't want to fight Rigo because he doesn't sell tickets or lack of TV contract, doesn't make sense. Rigo was willing to fight Frampton in Belfast and that fight would have sold lots of tickets. It seems like they were avoiding Rigo for the time being, but that's in the past, and I'm pretty sure Frampton would love to fight Rigo in his next fight. Money is not just the issue, a fighters stock and pride is also at stake.

Quigg doesn't have to fight Frampton, he can fight Rigo in London and still make money. But most likely Frampton will fight Quiggs, and Rigo will fight some Japanese fighter.

[solo20]

AKA, dont **** on my guy because he wont fight Rigondeaux.

Lets be honest, nobody in the division is even close to being on Rigondeaux level.

They are all 3 levels below him, which is why none of them are interested in fighting him.

All the talk of, oh there is no money in fighting Rigondeaux. Thats right, there isn't money in fighting him, because you take a loss, and can't demand over inflated pay days anymore.

He kicks you off the gravy train.

bingo that is why Frampton wants to fight that other domestic level bum Quigg. If Frampton gets his @ss kick by Rigondeaux his stock will drop so they are going to hype the hell out of Frampton as much as they can.

[!! Shawn]

Nothing wrong thinking that. Obviously he'll have to prove it for it to become a reality.

Rigondeaux and Frampton are clearly the best at 122 and after Frampton takes care of Quigg which is a big fight, and Rigondeaux takes care of Wake in Japan which is pretty good money there, they'll meet each other, either late this year or early next.

Frampton is the only person at 122 that can compete with Rigondeaux. He's fast, has excellent footwork, good power; anyone who thinks Rigondeaux makes easy work of Frampton probably hasn't even watched Frampton fight, or have only seen very little of him. I'd still favor Rigondeaux to win, but I bet it's a close competitive fight that Frampton could possibly win. This is an excellent fight and fans should be excited to know there is someone good enough to really challenge Rigondeaux and more importantly, is WILLING to fight him (unlike that protected chump Leo Santa Cruz).

Seen Frampton fight. Rigo is a bad style matchup for him. Frampton likes to box to much. He is a an inferior version of Rigondeaux that is easier to hit. Good feet, decent speed, good power. His biggest weakness against rigo thought will be his need to plant his feet to unload his power. For all his foot work, he plants solidly when he unloads combinations the moves, only thing he ever fires on the move is his jab. Rigo will be nowhere to be found for that.

All that means is that Rigo will slow the fight down to nothing, and for Frampton to take the lead, where Rigo will counter him to perfection, and keep him turning so frampton can never plant to unload with power.

Frampton is a good little fighter though, he would definitely batter LSC, and Quigg.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

The excuse that Frampton team didn't want to fight Rigo because he doesn't sell tickets or lack of TV contract, doesn't make sense. Rigo was willing to fight Frampton in Belfast and that fight would have sold lots of tickets. It seems like they were avoiding Rigo for the time being, but that's in the past, and I'm pretty sure Frampton would love to fight Rigo in his next fight. Money is not just the issue, a fighters stock and pride is also at stake.

Quigg doesn't have to fight Frampton, he can fight Rigo in London and still make money. But most likely Frampton will fight Quiggs, and Rigo will fight some Japanese fighter.

Frampton only won his title in September, got an injury and just fought his mandatory. I don't see how its even possible that he's been avoiding Rigondeaux for a long time. Now that literally doesn't make sense.

[Boxingwizard]

Frampton only won his title in September, got an injury and just fought his mandatory. I don't see how its even possible that he's been avoiding Rigondeaux for a long time. Now that literally doesn't make sense.

I didn't say he was avoiding Rigondeaux for a long time, but the excuses that Rigo doesn't sell tickets and doesn't have a TV contract seems like an excuse to avoid him.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I didn't say he was avoiding Rigondeaux for a long time, but the excuses that Rigo doesn't sell tickets and doesn't have a TV contract seems like an excuse to avoid him.

It's just the reality. There was talk of Rigo signing with Frank Warren, it's a shame he didn't because he could have been put on some big shows in the UK and that would have really built up a fight with either Frampton or Quigg.

The unfortunate thing is that US TV aren't interested in Rigo so he and Frampton will probably end up fighting each other for much less than they deserve and will have far fewer eyes on them than that fight deserves.

[Boxingwizard]

It's just the reality. There was talk of Rigo signing with Frank Warren, it's a shame he didn't because he could have been put on some big shows in the UK and that would have really built up a fight with either Frampton or Quigg.

The unfortunate thing is that US TV aren't interested in Rigo so he and Frampton will probably end up fighting each other for much less than they deserve and will have far fewer eyes on them than that fight deserves.

Well that's no longer an issue now because Frampton and his promoter are calling him out. But they want the fight with Quigg first.