Did loma really do anything special?

[Vegemil]

And Rigo entered the fight 37, inactive, tiny, and at the tail end of his career. If anything, Rigo's loss is more excusable than Loma's.

So that makes up for him not fighting? Why did he even take the fight then? It was clearly just a cash grab if it was as you described which makes it even more de****able.

[Eddy Current]

So that makes up for him not fighting? Why did he even take the fight then? It was clearly just a cash grab if it was as you described which makes it even more de****able.

Hey, the guy came from oppressive Cuba and lived his whole life dirt poor, even having to sell his Olympic medals to make ends meet. I don't mind him going for a cash grab at the end of his career. I'm a pretty empathetic person, though.

[uppercut510]

he made rigo quit is what he did, i have my su****ion and opinions but thats one thing nobody can deny, rigo wasnt injured, when holding was taken away from him he knew he had no chance.

[leathernvouges]

Well he did make a guy who is top 10 P4P in many people's list look bad. Whether it was the injury or not, he took full advantage of what was given to him. It's obviously hard to land punches with a clinch every 10 seconds and he's ducking down so low.

I said it was more of a rigo looking awful than loma lookin great not saying that loma didn’t make him look that way but his stock doesn’t go up in my book just rigos stock fell off a cliff

[mcdonalds]

Honestly not really but rigo didnt do anything at all

[MrClutch85]

the fight was kinda like Roy Jones- James Toney Roy won every round with his speed he didn't do any serious damage or bust Toney up.

[Raonic]

I said it was more of a rigo looking awful than loma lookin great not saying that loma didn’t make him look that way but his stock doesn’t go up in my book just rigos stock fell off a cliff

If he was fighting a title holder at 122-130, I don't think he looks that bad though. So it's a combination of both. He said himself that he doesn't consider it a big win anyway so either way his stock doesn't go down as you said.

[richardt]

In his 2nd pro fight...

Bernard Hopkins lost his 1st pro fight to a tomato can. Didn't stop him from becoming one of the greatest fighters of all time.

And 3 division world champ Alexis Arguello lost his 4th and 5th pro fights and went to become an ATG.

[Madison Boxing]

rigo is a 2 time olympic gold medalist who some had ranked in their top 5 p4p and freddie roach said was the greatest talent hes ever seen. loma made him quit by round 6 and land less than 3 punches a round....

[sunny31]

I didn’t see him beat rigo up, he looked ready to fight and rigo looked old and like he was just desperate for a payday, but nothing really landed that made u say wow. I kinda feel for rigo because it’s like he had to get crucified for a fight but it wasn’t like loma put an a** whooping on him

Rigo is a top tier defensive fighter, it's hard to say where he would rank all time, but definitely one of the best defensive fighters I've seen. We have seen fighters like this are hard to hit with standard boxing punches and angles.

Loma came in prepared, had a game plan, and I think that plan was to overwhelm him with activity and not give him thinking time. He had the size and skill to reach and touch him, and even when Rigo ducked low he was getting touched, there was literally nowhere for him to hide, and because Loma is so sound defensively whilst doing all the offensive things he does, Rigo couldn't get off either. Loma is perpetual motion.

Lomachenko was starting to land some cleaner shots, but Rigo bailed. I rate this performance extremely highly, Loma wasn't that impressed with himself, he expected this from himself, but you still need to go out there and perform. Loma showed that there is no defence he cant penetrate, it's an impressive string to his bow.

I think only a pressure fighter will beat him at this stage. Excellent fighter, without getting carried away you have to give credit where it's due.