Vasyl or Rigo...

[dan_cov]

rigo is a tremendous fighter and a fantastic amateur but with lomachenkos record and his medal acheivements coupled with that, i dont really see how he cant be perceived as the greatest amateur ever.

I don't think Rigo is even the greatest amateur from Cuba.
They are both up there, right up there and between the two its splitting hairs really.
They probably both have a case for the greatest non HW amateur of all-time but for me Rigo fought the better competition & has 6 Cuban national titles & took gold in three world cups but on the flip Lomachenko's numeral statistics are better.

[TripleGFightFan]

Whites will vote lomachenko...Non-Whites will vote Rigo...Real fans dont care and just wanna see them fight each other...

[kingstip9]

Both spent too damn long in the amateurs

[!! Shawn]

Rigo beat Gennadi Kovalev?

On another note, I see he lost to Carlos Cuadras by L WO, does this mean Walk out?

WO is walk over, it means one of the fighters didn't show up, or were unable to fight due to other reasons such as a cut.

[bambam182]

Loma is the amateur GOAT

Rigo is just a pretender who wasnt man enough to face Loma in the pro ring, he knows Loma would spank him


Rigonduck deserves hate from the fans for depriving us of a fight for the ages

just like how he was ducking donaire than whooped his a$$ and boxingscene members were pissed lol.

ducking ducking ducking ducking.

[!! Shawn]

I don't think Rigo is even the greatest amateur from Cuba.
They are both up there, right up there and between the two its splitting hairs really.
They probably both have a case for the greatest non HW amateur of all-time but for me Rigo fought the better competition & has 6 Cuban national titles & took gold in three world cups but on the flip Lomachenko's numeral statistics are better.

Like you said,

Lomochenko has 5 notable gold medals to his name in international competition.

Rigondeaux has 9 + 6 cuban national championships.

They are both astonishingly skilled and talented. Id say Rigondeaux has the better pedigree.

[dan_cov]

Like you said,

Lomochenko has 5 notable gold medals to his name in international competition.

Rigondeaux has 9 + 6 cuban national championships.

They are both astonishingly skilled and talented. Id say Rigondeaux has the better pedigree.

Been a long time since I seen that avatar, it brings back great memories.
I might have to bring it back this Feb.

[!! Shawn]

Been a long time since I seen that avatar, it brings back great memories.
I might have to bring it back this Feb.

Its the best there is.

[1g5a22]

I don't think Rigo is even the greatest amateur from Cuba.
They are both up there, right up there and between the two its splitting hairs really.
They probably both have a case for the greatest non HW amateur of all-time but for me Rigo fought the better competition & has 6 Cuban national titles & took gold in three world cups but on the flip Lomachenko's numeral statistics are better.

Laszlo Papp greatest ever for me. 3 time Olympic Gold winner (first to do it) Even Teofilio Stevenson agrees with me on that.

Two other EE amateurs I admire are:

Jerzy Kulej (two time Olympic gold medal winner who defeated the great Dick McTaggart)

Oleg Saitov (Val Barker winner & two time Olympic gold winner)

There were a couple of great threads on soviet amateurs a while back on ESB in the European lounge. I think they were called ranking the soviet amateurs & ranking the soviet Heavyweights. Summat like that.. I think someone may be able to find them out if so inclined.