Comments Thread For: Rigondeaux's Promoter Vows To Fight WBO's Strip Threat

[SteveM]

Why the f#ck hasn't the alphabet group thrown him a mandatory in 30 months? Hell with barely no one wanting to fight Rigo he'd probably be better off & more active if the alphabet group just became his defacto promoter by enforcing mandatory fights every 6 mos or so. Isn't there a regular or interim champ? Why haven't the alphabet group pushed for that fight?

Regardless if Rigo gots this trinket or not he's The Champion at his weight.

The alphabet groups couldn't manage a piss up in brewery much less effectively run the careers of all their champions.

The alphabet groups are powerless to make fighters step up and fight as we have recently seen with trying to find someone to face Beterbiev for the eliminatory fight.

[MEXfistology]

Rigo needs to sign with haymon

[SteveM]

My assumption is he has a virtual slave contract with Caribe that he signed when he was desperate or thought it sounded good as is usually the case for boxers who get screwed over in the business of boxing. You rarely see a fighter able to break free from those types of deals.

It must be that - such a shame - I can't understand why boxing journalists don't investigate what exactly his contract is. That said, he could break it if someone (like Haymon) would buy him out of it. This must be so frustrating for him. His ex-manager should have steered him away from Caribe towards a promoter with deeper pockets that could make the fights attractive for his potential opponents.

[SteveM]

Haymon isn't going to just let Caribe sit around and collect a check, and Caribe doesn't seem all that inclined to actually work.

Outside of the Fighter LLCs, Haymon seems to make sure that every promoter he does business with actually does the work.

As long as Rigo has that forever deal with Caribe, Haymon's not touching him with a ten-foot pole.

Surely Rigo can just sign with another promoter. He would get sued by Caribe. If the other promoter covers the damages what is the issue? How much could the damages be? It's not as if Rigo is involved in million dollar fights.

[SteveM]

The WBO sees that Nonito Donaire has gotten himself back into the top 3, understand that Bob Arum back's Nonito and HBO is backing Arum, and wants to generate that sanctioning fee off of their 122 belt.

Say what you want about the other sanctioning bodies, the WBO has proven itself to be clearly the worst.

Can we just say that at the bottom of the vile cesspit of corruption that constitutes the 'business' side of boxing - there festers the President of the WBO and his stinking cronies.

[SteveM]

Then you keep going down the line. Avalos had the luxury of also being in the top 5 for the IBF. How many top 10 WBO fighters have the ability to turn down Rigo and still get a title shot elsewhere ? Hardly. The IBF just asked 13 guys if they wanted to fight Beterbiev in an eliminator. If the WBO orders guys to fight Rigo and they decline, they lose their ranking and have to fight more fights just to either regain their place or somewhere else. That's the point of the rankings.

And meanwhile with his option to fight guys with a voluntary, we've already criticize fighters like wilder and Cotto for using their voluntaries in geale and molina who proved to be unworthy, so why the hell would we be satisfied if Rigo did the same?

The WBO has a job to do by issuing mandatory challengers just like they've had to for other divisions. you can't have a champion not make a single mandatory defense of his title since getting the belt and hold him accountable when he's been open to his mandatories. They'll strip fighters for unsanctioned fighte but will let others blatantly turn down their mandatories Bc of the money.

If you do that too often then the rankings list will be filled with non deserving fighters who might normally rank between 20 and 40. In that scenario the ranking list becomes irrelevant and ergo the ABC organization becomes irrelevant. Haymon would love to see a scenario like that unfold.

[Nightfall]

They managed one 1 fight since he left Top Rank....in Japan

He left Top Rank in July of last year and has only fought once....

which puts the ball back in the WBO's court. where's his mandatory ?

[Hougigo]

which puts the ball back in the WBO's court. where's his mandatory ?

That's why Rigo isn't fighting?

[Barcham]

and the problem is ? The great Al Haymon gets the fighters paid and who the hell wants to get hit and brain damaged.

This is how Haymon boxers should be fighting if they are so worried about being hurt. Leave the real fights to those willing to take the risk.

[Larry the boss]

This guy's management sucks