Comments Thread For: Photos: Rigondeaux Drills Flores in Controversial First Round KO

[Luilun]

Does it matter no one at 122 or 126 can beat Rigo

[RuslanChagaev]

No, leave the call how it is, hbo, Jim lamply, bob arum harold ledderman are trying to get rid of Rigo. (& any true champion they don't "like") You could tell how Jim was all in that K.O. tryin to get them to change the call so Rigo doesn't beat anymore of their fighters.....let the call be & on to the next opponent. Hope it's lomachenko.

Big fighters should not be the subject of any debate so, it was illegal situation and he should fight again. I believe that Rigondeaux can beat Flores in every way. I'm just a fan of Rigondeaux but I'm not blind. I dont know what's happening in backstage. I just want fighters to respect each other.

Flores does not deserve to lose like that.

[Kick222]

It should have been a no contest. Terrible situation was created by the indecision of the referee. Rigo is clearly a much better fighter but the hit came after the bell. However Flores try to milk the situation and pretended to be knocked out. No respect for those action specially coming from a Mexican fighter.

[The Akbar One]

Look at the seventh photo down. It clearly shows that Flores is acting. What guy who is knocked senseless sits down on the canvas in such a controlled, and comfortable manner.

[danktrees]

here is the official rule btw, it should be a no contest:

as per the commission’s website boxing.nv.gov. the rules are : http://boxing.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/b...S-R062-16A.pdf

page 82 and 90 state hitting after the bell is considered a foul. page 84 then states and i quote "if the referee determines that a contest or exhibition may not continue because of an injury caused by an intentional foul, the unarmed combatant who committed the intentional foul loses by disqualification."

so director bennet didn’t know what he was saying since as per their own rules, intent matters and is what is used to determine a dq.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Shades of Soto/Lorenzo 1.

[garfios]

It should have been a no contest. Terrible situation was created by the indecision of the referee. Rigo is clearly a much better fighter but the hit came after the bell. However Flores try to milk the situation and pretended to be knocked out. No respect for those action specially coming from a Mexican fighter.

Not only milk it, he threw his punch at the same time. They should have review the tape give chucky time to recover and keep on going.

[garfios]

The sequence of the final ten seconds of that fight should had been at least a no contest. Holding behind the head and hitting with that last punch coming way after the bell. They you had Flores with his acting job, clearly hurt but with enough wit to stay down

both threw punches after the belt. Defend yourself at all time

[garfios]

No, leave the call how it is, hbo, Jim lamply, bob arum harold ledderman are trying to get rid of Rigo. (& any true champion they don't "like") You could tell how Jim was all in that K.O. tryin to get them to change the call so Rigo doesn't beat anymore of their fighters.....let the call be & on to the next opponent. Hope it's lomachenko.

You noticed that too. ****ing bias. He put the commissioner on a spot. What a piece of crap. And the referee was about to dq the Cuban fighter without any review.

[-DSG-]

Rigo deserves a big fight.