Comments Thread For: Arum on Lomachenko vs. Rigondeaux: That's a **** Fight!

[jmrf4435]

Rigo bring no money for lomachenko and the fans would be unhappy due to a lackluster UD by lomachenko

Arum is right, Loma has surpassed rigo, doesn't need rigo lololo

[richardt]

The masses booed Rigo vs Abeko because Rigo had the fight in the bag and didn't' go for the finish. He cruised to the end (like Floyd ALWAYS did yet everyone wants to tune in to watch Floyd who is just as "boring" as Rigo)...

Now, What makes Loma vs Rigo such a great fight is,.. that although Rigo is great, I don't think he's great enough to completely neutralize Loma's offense and cruise to a decision...Neither is Loma so great to completely smother and bully Rigo without tasting the power of Rigo's left hand from time to time... This fight will be very close from start to finish which makes it so interesting...

Still waiting on Loma to respond to Rigo. Arum probably told him not to say anything

The consensus was that Rigo was the same round to round and doing nothing to overwhelm the overmatched Agbeko and went the route of a redundant and predictable decision. But Lom will not be able to accept the fight because Arum has all but banned that possibility.

[JJRod]

What kind of money, fans did Walters bring? Did Walters fight an exciting fight?

Walters has brought excitement in big moments before though.

Also, Walters was an easier fight to make being that he is a Top Rank fighter. Rigo has bad blood with Arum, he has a bad rapport with HBO, and is difficult to negotiate with. Add to that he brings no money, no fans and a boring day at the office, and you can see why there is no interest in him fighting any of the top guys.

[pesticid]

Walters has brought excitement in big moments before though.

Also, Walters was an easier fight to make being that he is a Top Rank fighter. Rigo has bad blood with Arum, he has a bad rapport with HBO, and is difficult to negotiate with. Add to that he brings no money, no fans and a boring day at the office, and you can see why there is no interest in him fighting any of the top guys.

Did Walters bring more of that against Loma?

Let me remind you - 2000 people in attendance, 760 k viewers watching from home and Walters quit.

[JJRod]

Did Walters bring more of that against Loma?

Let me remind you - 2000 people in attendance, 760 k viewers watching from home and Walters quit.

Again, Walters is a Top Rank fighter.
HBO prior to him quitting actually liked Walters.

With Rigo, no network wants him. Not only would you have to negotiate a weight, a rehydration clause, and a purse split with Rigo, you'd have to negotiate with the Networks who don't want Rigo.
Jhonny Gonzalez said this way back in 2014. He said the problem with Rigo was that you're having to negotiate with the networks who don't want to pay the big purse Rigo demands.

[HI-TECH Boxing]

Where was everybody at when this fight was being discussed last year?
I even said it then, I want the Loma-Rigo fight to happen because I know if it doesn't most will blame it on Loma.
It's starting to happen.

Rigo's team is just trying to get some publicity. In a video from last year Rigo says, that he fights at 122 and Loma fights at 126.
It's his team talking for him. Loma and Rigo seem to be respectful toward each other.

[darius45]

Rigo's team is just trying to get some publicity. In a video from last year Rigo says, that he fights at 122 and Loma fights at 126.
It's his team talking for him. Loma and Rigo seem to be respectful toward each other.

I think Rigo has real intentions to fight Loma. I mean, they did enter real negotiations and settled on 126 with a dehydration clause before.

I'm sure that yes Rigo is calling out Loma for publicity, but I think it's a realistic fight too.

[!! Shawn]

Lomachenko's next two opponents will be, Salido, and Yurokis Gamboa. Got beaten by a journeyman, and defeated an overrated Walters, now everyone wants to anoint him P4P king, lmao. Did anybody realize Walters lived off a win against Donaire, who was too small to compete, and Walters is 5'7" with a reach of 70", lmao Cotto is 5'7" with a reach of 67", he's fighting in a division where the tallest fighter are 5'5".

Lomachenko basically runs from the best fighters in his division, Frampton, Santa Cruz, Selby, Mares, Valdez, Cuellar, all of whom are superior to Walters, and all of whom Donaire and Walters wont go near. He jumps a division and fights the first over rated champion fighter he can find Walters. He wont fight Vargas, Miura, Corrales, Pedraza, Fortuna, by the way another list of fighters Walters and donaire wont go anywhere near. For sure Loma has skillz, but what we have here is an extremely carefully matched fighter, like Terrance Crawford, getting propped up on wins against the outskirt champions of the division. Top rank science. I like Lomachenko but I ain't falling for these bullschit match ups.

Whats funny is that all the fighter you just listed as Loma running from, are guys that BLATANTLY ran from Rigo.

[!! Shawn]

Loma's impressive workrate and technical excellence might bring out the best in Rigo. Or Rigo will just get BTFO badly due to age and not having decent fights for years. If I were a betting man, I'd go with the latter. Rigo is tiny too doe.

I wish this fight happened 2 years ago. Ive seen some recent sparring footage of Rigo, and he is starting to get touched a lot more frequently than he use to be the case.

36 years old at 122 is like hopkins old.

[!! Shawn]

I used to be a fan of Rigo but how many times can that guy go to the well.I used to spend a lot of time making excuses,for him, for the no shows, the **** perfomance here and there but now I can't be arsed anymore. He's on the verge of disappearing into oblivion. What a waste - the guy is clearly a ****in half wit otherwise he would take control of matters himself. Who's to blame? He can't be blameless even if his management team is crap. Don't know if anyone will miss this guy if he never boxes again.

You can't really blame him. Like all the cubans they grew up being taught you get up a point and then defend. So they all tend to fight just above the level of their opponent. Its hard to drill out so many years of that system.

But Rigo has show us he can rise to the occasion when it is called of him.

If he can still do it at 36 is yet to be seen. But I hope we get to see him in against atleast 1 more top level fighter in his career.

Yeah, he has had some boring performances. Some of it is just bad matchmaking. Some of it is him.

You have to remember, people thought Agbeko was going to bring it. Agbeko shelled up once he realized what he was up again.

When Hasegawa gave an effort, Rigo put on a great performance.

If you put in a guy that will gut it out and never stop trying, you will get great fights from Rigo.

When you put him in with journeymen who are use to losing and mentally give up after 1 round of realizing how hopelessly outclassed they are, Rigos inclination isn't to make it an exciting fight when the opponent decides they just want to survive the night.