the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

I was shocked to **** at how good Rigo was. I was expecting this to be a left-hook goodnight victory from Donaire.

Rigo was on a different class, Donaire was just looking to get lucky on the left hook.
When he moves up in weight, his punches will harm 130's less. Donaire must stay away from Mikey Garcia although I rate Rigo over Garcia.

I had given round 2 and the knockdown round to Donaire - but round 2 is somewhat debatable.

I know Mares has the style to beat Rigo, but is Mares even THAT good to beat Rigo?
Just imagine a Rigo-Hamed bout lol This aint Bungu.

**** The Judges for calling it 114-113, 115-112 and even 116-111.

 

Damn!

Not again!

 

Bungu was bloody good.

 

Any news on when we'll get to witness a legendary Mustache on display?

 

Hell yeah

 

I picked Rigo on points for the prediction league. I wonder what Donaire weighed, he looked huge.

 

Yeah he deffo was, but I think Rigo is on that elite level.

 

Rigo vs Morales = Rigo - with hesitation
How does Barrera fare with Rigo?

Donaire lost me 200 vCash

 

I'm wondering the same. Got stuff from USA and my own country that have yet to turn up, perplexing.

I'm most looking forward to Wolgast-Montana. But don't worry, as soon as I have it, you will.

Me too, and great that he's lived up to his promise after being a fan for such a long time, I admittedly looked into the Marroquin performance too much but Rigo' put it altogether last night. Incredible showing.

Seems a perfectly sized super bantam though. Mikey Garcia is what, a light welter or more on fight night? Hopefully Russell Jr can pick up some meaningful wins at 126, that'd be an interesting fight, or Mares can somehow get out of Showtime and get back to 122. Or Rigo' Vs winner of Mares-Ponce at 126 if Arum can get him over there.

 

Morales would walk through Rigo' IMO.

 

Can anyone see a fighter from 118-122 who could beat Rigo, I can't. The likes of Mares and Santa Cruz would take an absolute shellacking trying to come forward and pressure him, and YamankaMoreno are a level bellow. Interesting clashes they would be though. Nonito isn't every beating Rigo either, irregardless of his preparation, that much is clear from last night.

Anyways, spectacular performance last night against a top class fighter. Timing, speed, footwork, reflexes, power and accuracy, everything was top notch. Rigo's chin is definitely a lot more solid than people give him credit for to.

 

Roman Gonzalez Vs Juan Francisco Estrada

GONZALEZ: 2; 3; 5; 6; 7; 8; 11;
ESTRADA: 1; 4; 9; 10; 12

GONZALEZ 115-113 ESTRADA

Close and exciting fight, not overly dramatic bar the 12th round, but two tidy, contrasting operators going at about their work in a smart but high-paced fashion. The 8th and 12th are potential swing rounds, but I felt Gonzalez edged it. Rematch at 112 is a necessity now.

Brian Viloria Vs Juan Francisco Estrada

VILORIA: 1; 3; 5; 6;
ESTRADA: 2; 4; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12

VILORIA 112-116 ESTRADA

But another win for Gonzalez isn’t a given. Unlike some of his other losses, Viloria didn’t capitulate and lose shamefully. Estrada was too quick, too strong, and dug to the body well throughout. Viloria landed some of his well-placed shots during the fight, but Estrada took them well. Viloria didn’t land any of his well-timed humdingers, but even though he was seemingly hurt twice in the final round he tried to rally. Very good win from a bit of a sleeper talent in Estrada. Hopefully Martinez and Ioka make it up to fly to fight Estrada, and Yaegashi looks strong enough at the weight to still make for exciting fights, maybe a rematch with Ioka. Inoue looks to be a good enough prospect to join the ranks a year down the line, and Concepcion and Marquez could feasibly give Estrada a good fight as well. Segura and Sosa are fighting too I think.I imagine Shiming will be force fed jokers until he’s got enough marks in the win column to warrant some kind of title challenge (where he’ll get merc’d)

Flyweight looks healthy.

 

last night was a great triumph for subtle technique and learning your ringcraft over relying on a few strong basic tools and significant physical advantages.these kind of upsets are always great.

Got to say i really wasn't sure Rigondeaux would be able to overcome the size\reach after seeing him a few times look quite strained and unconvincing on the backfoot trying to contain bigger, less technical fighters for the full 12.He was excellent though and Donaire showed a lot of the flaws i felt were there and simply had yet to be properly exploited by someone skilled enough to take advantage of them.

 

Agree with all of this.

 

It was a nice schooling, but I would have preferred if Rigo stood in there a bit more and used some inside game instead of the Mayweatheresque speedy pot shotting with lots of movement and low risk taking approach.

As impressive a performance as it was, I still felt it was rather 2-dimensional.