Comments Thread For: Lomachenko's Manager Calls For Rigondeaux at 126

[SteveM]

Rigo doesn't have to move up..but he needs to fight the best in his division or else become labeled a cherry-picker...

Stop trolling - he's called everyone out and they are not interested. Frampton ran away to haymon. Selby never mentions Rigo ditto Santa Cruz.

Rigo ... maybe the best ever boxer denied by boxing politics.

[SteveM]

Honestly its not going to happen.

Rigo is already small at 122.

Loma is good at 126 and why take a risk by draining yourself.

It's kind of a risky fight for both guys with nothing to gain out of it all. One is a little too big for the other, both very good champions who have a long way to go. Why have someone take an L when there is no need?

Maybe they should meet down the road in 5 years but now it just doesn't make sense.

So you think it might be a good idea for Rigo to fight at Lomo when Rigo is 39 yrs old? I say now is a good time at 124/5

[darius45]

I've said it before, and I will say it again: Rigo vs. Loma is THE fight in boxing right now...Better than Floyd/Pac, Floyd/GGG, GGG/Ward, Ward/kovalev... combined...

But alas, Rigo will sign with Haymon and Loma will be stuck at HBO, and we will never get this super fight... Because unlike that FLOP Floyd/Manny... You KNOW two, two-time gold medalists are going to show up to WIN, and not go through the motions like those two clowns.

May the boxing gods hear our prayers and let this fight come to fruition.

Having said all that... Loma should really try to meet Rigo in the middle... enough of this title unification talk... no one cares about titles, they care about the best fighting the best, belts be damned.

[Reloaded]

Rigo needs to take this. I've been critical of guys like GGG, Thurman and others for not fighting the best in the neighborhood of their weight division and I'm not giving my dude a pass for it either.

It's a big enough fight for him to take the risk, move up and go back down after. Get it done.

GGG wants 4 pounds from Ward and everybody went nuts , Floyd got 2 pounds from Canelo same deal , Manny got 2 pounds from Cotto same deal .

4 pounds is a big deal for these little guys and Rigo is small framed , I would love to see them fight all Im saying is the weight is stacked in Lomos favour in a big way and after the fight nobody sees that advantage .

[Loque-san]

Fair enough, you're entitled to that opinion. Would you agree that he would be a tiny SMW?

He would be rather small at 168, but not as undersized as Rigondeaux would be at 126.

I don't think Ward being better than Golovkin is debatable. At all.

Some people may still disagree with this.

I'm not sure GGGs number of pro fights means anything. There's certainly nobody on his resume anywhere close to Froch, Kessler or Dawson. I don't see an Olympic Gold Medal on GGGs resume. Quality matters more than quantity.

Ward has fought the better fighters but GGG's 33 pro fights - against the best available opposition - have to count for something. It's not like he's a novice of 10 pro fights or has been facing 33 journeymen, ala Russell Jr. before he stepped up, and learning nothing from these fights.

Golovkin won an Olympic Silver Medal AND a Gold Medal at the 2005 World Championships, which is even harder to accomplish because you actually have to win more fights, against the same caliber of opposition, to get the Gold. Last time I checked Gold + Silver (GGG) was better than Gold + nothing (Ward).

Ward won Gold at the Olympics but never competed in other major international tournaments: World Championships, World Cups, Pan American Games. Therefore, Golovkin has a much deeper amateur background than Ward.

Pretty sure Loma lost the Salido fight. The bold is what matters.

This is not an accomplishment, but still a valuable learning experience. You learn more from failure than from success. Rigondeaux has never faced a pressure fighter/volume puncher like Salido.

Was there anything left?

- Ward has a better resume than Golovkin.
- Rigo has more experience than Lomachenko.

These are FACTS, the rest is not.

[Y0@NN]

Frampton needs to man up, early 2016.

[SkillspayBills]

World might implode. A little too much skill in the ring at one time.

[MrP4P]

So he didnt want to fight Walters, who is one of the best fighters in the division because he didnt have a belt, but he would want Rigo to move up to fight him in a title defense?

Lol Loma shook of Walters size

[Banderivets]

So you think it might be a good idea for Rigo to fight at Lomo when Rigo is 39 yrs old? I say now is a good time at 124/5

You got me there, I didn't think about the age.

Well now I'm in the camp of "its just not meant to be"

Rigo seems to be at his highest @ 122lb, and honestly he is a very small man, his build is not exactly skinny right now.

And Loma is taking a big risk being a young man with a bull**** L already on his record going down in weight to fight in my opinion a top pound4pound in boxing.

If before I gave Rigo a victory against Loma without much hesitation now that I saw Rigo in his last fight I really think its a 50/50 fight, Loma can hurt him without a doubt and would if the fight happened, but how it would turn out who knows.

[Banderivets]

I've said it before, and I will say it again: Rigo vs. Loma is THE fight in boxing right now...Better than Floyd/Pac, Floyd/GGG, GGG/Ward, Ward/kovalev... combined...

But alas, Rigo will sign with Haymon and Loma will be stuck at HBO, and we will never get this super fight... Because unlike that FLOP Floyd/Manny... You KNOW two, two-time gold medalists are going to show up to WIN, and not go through the motions like those two clowns.

May the boxing gods hear our prayers and let this fight come to fruition.

Having said all that... Loma should really try to meet Rigo in the middle... enough of this title unification talk... no one cares about titles, they care about the best fighting the best, belts be damned.

I agree with you man, but who would really buy this fight now or in a year? A good junk of us at NSB would love it, but the casuals don't even know who these two guys are.