Comments Thread For: Rigondeaux: Lomachenko Wouldn't Fight Me When at 126-Pounds

[chrisJS]

Documented by who? Arum and his buddies at boxingscene?

Rigo himself. He admitted to turning the fight down at 126.

[TheCell8]

And it is very well documented that Rigondeaux wanted to fight at the same weight but they refused then Rigondeaux said then pay me & bob's tactic is to lowball a fighter & say that they are the ones that didn't want to fight so Rigondeaux had to go through social media to put them on blast to get the fight BUT at the weight they wanted to give Rigondeaux all the disadvantages they could so stop putting in just the parts that YOU want.

That's not what happened. Rigo kept making several demands, which are documented, and eventually priced himself out of the fight.

First he wanted the fight at 124. Then he wanted 126 with a rehydration clause, then he felt $500k was not enough money.

It was one thing after another.

Rigo was in no position to negotiate. He was given the offer of 126 for $500K, take it or leave it and he left it.

Instead he went on to fight Jazza ****ens and Flores for peanuts.

[STREET CLEANER]

Rigo wanted the fight at 122. He always claimed that it was his weight. Now he comes out with this ****

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

Loma is right when he says Rigo is desperate. He has nobody else to fight to make money or even to get TV time besides Lomachenko.

[GhostofDempsey]

Rigondeaux vs lomo, bob arum, fat rafael, espn & the wba but you TOO blind to see it or you are the "****ing liar" "chump"

Don't be mad at me but you just make it so easy....lol

Were you snorting lines of Ajax before you wrote this? Incomprehensible.

[Andrij]

It was Rigondeaux who ducked Lomachenko at 126. Watch this video on youtube ->watch?v=lENE0fc_HkU&list=LLZWD8c1F2hhPr5enz2DvpFQ&index=75

[TheCell8]

The offer was $500K at 126, take it or leave it.

This was confirmed by a member of Rigo's team in this video:



Rigo foolishly tried to negotiate when he was in no position to, not realizing he was the B Side, and he backed out because he felt he was being "low balled" lol.

Instead he went on to fight nobodies for peanuts.

The only reason he's taking this fight is to cash out. His team knows that. He's 37, and this is his final pay day and a nice retirement gift.

[DuckAdonis]

The fight is 10 days away and not one single press conference thus far. What kind of promotion is that?

It's getting su****ious, hope no one pulls out

[chrisJS]

Rigo just makes it hard to like him. Flat out lies and still crying about being avoided. Is he so ****** that he thinks people don't have YouTube or Twitter access? He's on camera and on Twitter saying he can't fight Lomachenko and that he turned down an offer. An offer against a 6 fight fighter for 750k (which would be his highest payday) only to accept the same financial offer because he released he has no options or no pull or drawing power whatsoever.

“We all can’t believe in that nonsense, whatever he’s saying,” Lomachenko said through a translator. “We have a video of one of the reporters asking him, ‘Would you like to fight Vasyl Lomachenko?,’ when I was at 126. He asked the reporter, ‘Hold on a second. At what weight am I fighting?’ And the reporter said, ‘122.’ [And he said], ‘Well, what kind of question do we have? I’m fighting at 122. So why are you asking this silly question?’ And this video is on YouTube. Everybody can find it, so it’s not the truth.”

Who to believe out of these two when we just look at the fact that since 2013 -

Rigo has sat on a win and fought two ranked opponents since and showed no real intentions beyond Twitter of fighting anybody else good

Lomachenko has turned pro, fought a rugged 60 fight veteran in his 2nd fight, won a world title against a highly touted "prospect of the year" (you know you guys picked Russell to whup Loma), won a world title in his 7th fight and fought the feared Walters (who's better than anyone Rigo ever fought) in a fight you know many here said he'd lose badly and defeated 4 other ranked challengers.

I know who's integrity I trust here but the usual racists here of course will spin it the other way but for me Rigo admitting it both on YouTube and Twitter in addition to their track records are compelling evidence that Rigo is a liar.

[Don Pichardo]

It is very well documented that Rigo was offered the fight back then. I don't understand the purpose of this lie. It doesn't help the promotion in any way. There are so many better things to say for trash talk.

Show me the documents.