Lomachenko will lose a lot of fans if he doesn't fight Rigo

[darius45]

I think he is bluffing. He has shown no sign of wanting big fights. He had his chance at Loma at 126, but for the last two years he has been calling for catch weights. Difficult to take a guy serious who has been bluffing for two years now.

It was Loma who was bluffing when he dared Rigo to fight at 130, never imagining that Rigo would agree.

[RetroSpeed05]

I just hope they do talk because im telling you right now hes not getting the 500k anymore hes getting a much lower offer maybe 200-300k if hes lucky and if Rigo wont except thats not on Loma.

[Mitchell Kane]

This is a cute thread

[big_james10]

If Lomachenko passes on this opportunity to prove himself against the best (when the cards are stacked in his favor to boot) he's going to lose a lot support... especially if he goes on to fight subpar opposition until he can land a big fight at a higher weight.

He has an opportunity now to prove he's a top p4p fighter, to make a historic fight for all the fans, to add to his legacy, and to test skills in way that will bring out the very best of him.

Lomachenko will simply never have another opportunity to fight another fighter as skilled as Rigo (and vice versa)

Lomachenko only has 100 fans, so how many can he realistically lose?

[j0zef]

No he won't. Rigo has proven on thing in his career. He's impossible to negotiate with. Yeah, he pulled a Lara stunt and talked **** on Twitter. Cool.

That doesn't mean that he didn't ask for 3m in order to justify going to 130. First time fight fell through because rigo wanted more money and they couldn't agree on weight. There's nothing that suggests same thing won't happen again.

It was too late to make this fight in August, let's see if they can come to an agreement for the fall or winter.

[-PBP-]

Neither side wants the fight.

Rigo is too small and wants to stay at 122.

Arum doesn't want to take an unnecessary risk with little to no reward


Both sides are bluffing

[Derranged]

You say that as if its automatically Loma's fault if the fight doesn't happen. Last time Rigo was the one who refused to move up in weight but yet somehow that was Loma's fault. People on this forum are hilarious.

[Ajvar]

I wonder how Loma feels that Arum has so little confidence in him to beat Rigo... Your promoter doesn't even think your the best...

Good point.
Rigo is desperately trying to fix his mistake for 2 years now. He really want this money fight and he would be extremely happy with even less than 750$ which were offered to Salido.
But Loma is afraid to push asking Bob Arum to give him this fight. And Arum is by no means make such a risky fight by himself, only if he is pushed real hard.

So yeah, at some point Loma is ducking Rigo now. Say whatever you say. And Tank Davis and Salido both ducking Loma. Box is **** with all these multiple champion organizations and no champ can be in rates of another organization type of ducking.