Duva: Rigondeaux hand not broken, really nasty bruise

[The Big Dunn]

He made his own bed, now he'll have to sleep in it.

Not really. Bob and HBO punished him for being better than Nonito and hurting their plan. Then Bob got Dan Rafael, who is very close friends with Top Rank's mathcmakers, to start trashing Rigo and call him boring on a weekly basis on his chat.

Then the only fight he can get are garbage fights or take a fight where he has to go up 8 lbs.

But yes, he has only himself to blame for quitting.

[leathernvouges]

Why r we so hard on fighters who risk their lives to entertain us, unless you’ve been in a fight and every time u throw a punch it hurts and u think it’s broken u can’t judge him, it is a bad look but u live to fight another day

[pesticid]

Not really. Bob and HBO punished him for being better than Nonito and hurting their plan. Then Bob got Dan Rafael, who is very close friends with Top Rank's mathcmakers, to start trashing Rigo and call him boring on a weekly basis on his chat.

Then the only fight he can get are garbage fights or take a fight where he has to go up 8 lbs.

But yes, he has only himself to blame for quitting.

I agree with the politics of it, but to me the worst part of it, is he didn't show any boxing skills like footwork, feints, change of direction, all of these things that made him successful. That's why Loma dominated him and obviously him quitting was the lowest point this past Saturday. I don't understand how his coach knowing what the outcry would be could allow him to quit? He was already blacklisted and you allow him to quit? IDK, big disappointing is an understatement here.

[Raonic]

Not really. Bob and HBO punished him for being better than Nonito and hurting their plan. Then Bob got Dan Rafael, who is very close friends with Top Rank's mathcmakers, to start trashing Rigo and call him boring on a weekly basis on his chat.

Then the only fight he can get are garbage fights or take a fight where he has to go up 8 lbs.

But yes, he has only himself to blame for quitting.

He's boring. Even when he had the backing of RN (when they started off with Cotto and Ward in their stable), he still put garbage fights on HBO. He was on Cotto-Alvarez undercard and was boring. On Ward-Kovalev and hit the guy after the bell. So even if Bob Arum was trying to bring down his reputation, he didn't deliver at all despite having future opportunities. The broadcast team (Max Kellerman is the biggest Rigo nuthugger I've seen) isn't making him fight a boring way. HBO is not the reason the crowd boo him when he's in the ring.

He can go to Al Haymon, who will pay fighters millions while ST loses money and he will still be boring. He's a very skilled fighter but promoters and networks aren't paying for skill if you can't generate money.

[RetroSpeed05]

Why r we so hard on fighters who risk their lives to entertain us, unless you’ve been in a fight and every time u throw a punch it hurts and u think it’s broken u can’t judge him, it is a bad look but u live to fight another day

Because of the **** talking before the fight and saying he would never quit no matter what. Saying they would have to kill him before he quits and making fun of Walters for quitting and of course in history there have been boxers who fought with much worse injuries and some even won with them.

[HeadShots]

he's the worst quitjob in the history of boxing.

no bruises. no kd's. no broken hand. quit in the 6th because he's a mangina.

[leathernvouges]

Because of the **** talking before the fight and saying he would never quit no matter what. Saying they would have to kill him before he quits and making fun of Walters for quitting and of course in history there have been boxers who fought with much worse injuries and some even won with them.

Yes he was talking a lot but let’s look at the facts rnd 1 he did great 2/3 judges thought he won can’t u tell from round 2 on that something was different he didn’t get hit with anything that would make u think he felt his power and the same goes for rnds 3/4/5 I’m not saying rigo didn’t look bad but all this loma schooled him stuff is just to much

[JJRod]

No surprise.
Rigo doesn't really like boxing, or so the mini bio they showed told us.
He said boxing was just something better to do than working the fields of Cuba. He never did it for the love of the sport.

So in a fight where he's finally in with a better opponent and he sees he can't win he quits. He's not risking anything in a fight he sees he can't win, for a sport he doesn't enjoy.

[HeadShots]

Yes he was talking a lot but let’s look at the facts rnd 1 he did great 2/3 judges thought he won can’t u tell from round 2 on that something was different he didn’t get hit with anything that would make u think he felt his power and the same goes for rnds 3/4/5 I’m not saying rigo didn’t look bad but all this loma schooled him stuff is just to much

loma schooled him.

[leathernvouges]

loma schooled him.

Can u break down what u saw cause I saw him missing a lot and winning rounds because of activity not because he delivered a beating I don’t think the fight ever opened up because rigo was in his shell