Comments Thread For: Arum: Where Did Rigo Hurt His Hand? In The Dressing Room?
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rigo is like pac. When they were in a fight, and were being schooled, they shamed themselves by blaming an injury for their loss, instead of giving the proper credit to their professors! Shameful! When we watch loma, we are watching the new mayweather, not the new pacquiao!Comment
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Bro, I was just texting back-and-forth with one of my Cuban boys. He was telling me he saw some interviews with fans that literally came from far and wide to support Rigo. (I was surprised at the evident support Rigondeaux had in the crowd, for all the talk about Rigo and his “five fans.” Lol) Some people really went out of their way, and Rigo shit the bed like that on them. Even sitting at home I was disgusted. Never gonna live this one down.Comment
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Pac didn't quit, and MOST say he lost. MOST also say that he should've never blamed the loss on the injury, and that his excuse was a black-eye on the sport. There was even confusion regarding whether the injury excuse should've been used:
June 12, 2015:
Nobody knew about Pacquiao's pre-fight injury, but in revealing it to the gathered media afterward, Team Pacquiao did its best Cool Hand Luke imitation. It had a failure to communicate — with each other.
Roach said he was surprised when one of the first questions in the post-match news conference was about the injury. He had been told on the way out, by Top Rank's head man, Bob Arum, to say nothing. But apparently it was Arum, angry that the Nevada Athletic Commission had not allowed Pacquiao to be given a doctor-approved and legal painkiller injection just before the fight, who clued in a couple of reporters just before the conference.
Pacquiao apparently had no marching orders, so as soon as the question came up, he told the truth about the injury and the technicality that disallowed his pain-killing shot.
Pacquiao's adviser, Michael Koncz, who had filled out the form for the commission that would have allowed the injection had Koncz checked "Yes" in a box that asked about any injuries, was also, according to Roach, recommending that mum be the word on the injury.
But once Arum told the two reporters, and once Pacquiao publicly told all, there was no turning back. Now, Mayweather could — and did — spout off about Pacquiao being a guy looking for excuses.
Soon, a member of the Nevada commission was taking the microphone to refute any wrongdoing or unfairness on their part, Arum was spouting back, and the public saw a sport, disintegrating before its eyes. It probably had expected this all along. But the magnitude of this fight seemed to allow some denial. Boxing wouldn't let its usual mess happen at Mayweather-Pacquiao, would it?
Yes it would. The usual odor became a stench.
PATHETIC!Comment
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