Comments Thread For: Hopkins: Rigondeaux is 90% Done, May Quit Again in Future

[rrayvez]

I would have bet a lot of money that Quitondeaux would have schooled Santa Cruz though. But that quit job and trying to imply that his hand was broken was a disgrace - he's not even going to make the Hall of Fame, as it stands now.

yeah, this is going to stick with him and there really isn't much he's gonna be able to do to turn it around. Maybe after this guy's like Frampton and Santa Cruz may be willing to fight him now that he looks more vulnerable than ever but even beating them wouldn't erase this quot job from everyone's minds.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Someone with Rigo's style and skills can still be a top fighter at 37yo, even if that age is pretty old for the lower divisions. It's not like he's taken a lot of damage so far in his career.

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Dont bring age into this, rigo didnt look old at all, hasnt been in any wars to damage his body, the truth is he just quit.

Rigo could still beat top guys he just doesnt like lomas style, he couldnt impose his will on loma

Rigo loves pot shotting and loma didnt let him, loma smothered his work, so rigo is like **** this fool, there were times when rigo tried to throw that sneak snake power punch but miss wide, and right there that was rigos only chance and when he couldnt land it he quit.

Rigo quit. That’s not in question. We all saw it. But you don’t have to take a single punch in your life to be a different man at 37 than you were at 29. Guaranteed, your physical abilities are different at those ages. Lomo is the better fighter at this stage of his career. Maybe he always was. Maybe he would’ve smoked any version of Rigo, but the version he beat on the 9th was not prime Rigondeaux.

[Disturbed]

then fight the guy seeking a rematch, fight Donaire again if he beats frampton .

Does Donaire still have it though? Frampton didnt look too great in his last fight but I would assume that Frampton still wins it. Wouldnt mind seeing Frampton vs Rigo or Gary Russell Jr vs Rigo

[komandante]

Both Cuban Rigo and Gamboa have been exposed.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Both Cuban Rigo and Gamboa have been exposed.

These are two little men who are past their primes — Rigo 37; Gamboa 35. Both had notoriously mismanaged careers, much of it of their own doing. Yuri went through a period where he fought four times in about three years. At the end of that stretch, he got pummeled by the much larger, P4Per Terrance Crawford.

By the time he set foot in the ring with the bigger, younger, more active Lomachenko, Rigo had fought three rounds in two years. No one was exposed.

[future hendrixx]

rigos best move now is to retire and not even announce it. just fade out. no interviews nothing. disappear.

[D4thincarnation]

Says the guy you cried my back my back and quit

[Shadoww702]

not sure what's considered legit on his resume outside of Frampton and mares. He's infamous for fighting c level guys. And even mares didn't seem to be the same fighter after the Gonzalez ko. I do consider what he did with rigo to be ducking because none of the guys on his record were considered to be better than rigo at the time he fought them.

Have you seen Mares lately with his new trainer??? Dudes no joke! IMO the 3rd best at FW maybe even #2. I have serious doubts if Leo can beat him again??? How is cherry picking fighting the top best in the division???

I think your hate for Leo clouds your judgement. Name someone with a better resume at FW?

Tell you what? Leo fights someone you think will beat him and we can do business...

[BigStomps]

not sure what's worse, rigo quitting in the biggest opportunity of his career or santa cruz refusing to get into the ring with rigo in the first place. To the point that he begged haymon to buy him out of his golden boy contact the second Oscar announced he was going to try and make the fight.

Now how do you know Santa Cruz called and beg Al Haymon to buy out his contract?? How do you know Al Haymon didn't take it upon himself to just buy out the contract the minute Oscar announced he was in negotiations to make the fight?????

[soul_survivor]

I disagree he can still beat everybody at 126

Still? He never has. B