Comments Thread For: Arum: Rigondeaux, Salido Are Lomachenko's Options for 12/9

[Boxingtao]

So much for Berchelt being a potential opponent.

This ukrainian hypejob will beat up on a completely washed up Salido next and his fans will procaim him the goat because it was "only his 11th fight" lmao. #LomoBumsquad

Berchelt is injured you casual clown. Only the haters wanna see Salido again. Rigo bout to loose that 0.

[Reloaded]

Take Rigondeaux .

[Robbie Barrett]

Salido will be offered 800k, Rigo 300k and they'll say Rigo didn't want the fight.

[Willy Wanker]

I'd go with Rigondeaux.

The Salido fight will still be there later and won't lose too much appeal because Loma has a loss to him, so the fight can sell just based on that.

Rigo on the other hand is getting older, and he's already at a size disadvantage. He's still capable of outboxing Lomo at this stage, but the older he gets, the interest will fade. Need to fight him asap for it to mean anything.

[NEETzsche]

It'll probably be Salido

[Mammoth]

I hope it's Rigo then Salido. They won't be able to get away from a fight with Rigondeaux any way. Might as well make it.

[mbase1235]

But the reality is that Rigo is old. He's not at the top of the game. If Loma faced a guy like Tank or Garcia, he'd be facing a threat that's fresh off a dominant win. Not a guy who is fresh off a no contest because the ref was incompetent.

Salido's old too, but he's coming off a stoppage win AND he holds a victory over Loma. Given these two as choices the fight basically sells itself. Hell, if I were promoting Salido, I'd be all over the fact that everyone's favorite poster boy (and I AM a fan of Loma, BTW) got beat by a guy who drives Uber between fights. Just to piss Loma off.

They are both 36 years old, and Rigo is undefeated, while Salido has 13 losses and 4 draws. I would rather see Loma-Rigo, skill against skill. I'm fairly sure Loma beats Salido at this point, Salido was even fading towards the end of their first fight. The fight with Rigo is much more intriguing. Plus Rigo is pushing for the fight with Loma, while Salido does not appear to be in a hurry to make this fight.

That being said, I think Arum is just using Rigo's name as a smoke screen and has no intention of making that fight. Bob learned his lesson when he put Donaire in with Rigo.

And Rigo never really wanted to fight Loma. He pretended that he wanted to only to back out of the fight right before it was finalized on paper. Remember, they were supposed to fight before when Loma was still a Featherweight. See it for yourself and look at Rigo's facial expressions when the reporter asks him about why he pulled out according to Loma. He gets very defensive and says they're in different divisions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lENE0fc_HkU

Loma will be fighting mismatches until he moves up another weight class. The whole division knows what they're up against and none of them like their chances. They ran like **** at 126 and now are at 130 lbs which is what Loma already accused them of doing and said they were all fake champions.

Do you want to see the Loma-Rigo fight or not? We get it, you think Rigo ducked Loma. But maybe you are continuously posting this link because YOU don't want to see the fight.

It's an interesting fight, but when fans don't want to see fights happen, it's like they are worried that their favorite fighter will lose. If Rigo is bluffing, call his bluff and let's see what happens. I would think that you would want to see Loma to KO Rigo and shut his mouth.

Forget the past, Rigo wants the fight now. In the past Loma called out Garcia, but when Garcia said let's go, Loma got quiet. So this can go both ways. Otherwise, who do you think Loma should fight? Another Miguel Marriaga level opponent? Or will he move up and fight Mikey?

He should take the Rigo fight. Everyone hates Rigo so much they should be happy to see him get knocked off and shut up. But Arum and Klimas know better, they won't take the risk of putting Loma in wth Rigo. And Loma's fans don't want to see the fight either. This tells us who they think the real threat is.

[HarvardBlue]

We've seen this script before. Here are the options, then face a much weaker opponent.

Lomachenko is better than this but when you have Arum as a promoter you know what you're getting.

[Steven Mccowan]

Im sure espn will want this to be against salido. Either way. Itll be ko win for loma imo

[CLUBBER!]

I'm pretty sure everyone who knows anything about boxing knows that Arum and Rigo are NOT going to be doing any business ever again. That was just Arum talking out his ass. Lomo will NEVER fight Rigo under Arum.