His record does not mean any thing , Donald Curry had 404 amateur fights with only 4 loses. Mechanically he was not on par with Rigs Also I listed their achievement when I stated "So your telling me that Lomachehko a two time Olympic gold medalist will School Rigondeaux the world most decorated Amateur boxer in the world, in the last 30 years, who's also a 2x Olympic champion, 2x AWC, 1x Pan Am and 2x world cup. 2x ca and cg Notice 1 x Pan Am I personally don't think it will happen, I say young dud gets spanked" Lomachehko has the following 2x Olympic champion , 2x WAC and 1x EAC Notice no 2x Pan Am Also rig has plenty of inside game he just decided not to employ it when he fought Nonito. Besides a fighter with a boxing back ground as deeps as rigs not have an inside game ? Com on, thats highly unlikely.
And how is Lomachenko going to fight in the Pan Ams and the world cup that doesn't exist anymore? This isn't my opinion, you are actually wrong. Lomachenko won his second at the olympics and the worlds in a second, higher weight division against bigger fighters. And he won a val barker trophy, Rigo didn't. Rigo 12 losses, Lomachenko 1. They have a common opponent that I've seen both fight against - Sultonov. Lomachenko won 13-1 with a knockdown and Rigondeaux won 27-13. Rigondeaux fought in the amateurs when it was more 'fencing' orientated. And no he doesn't have an inside game. Many top fighters/amateurs don't, especially Cubans. It's not their style.
Exactly why 5'4 130lb mini tyson gamboa refuses to fight on the inside and is a jab first fighter, cubans can't fight inside. Straight boxing only.
Disagree especially on the inside game issue, go back and look at his fight with Donair and Cordoba who tried to press the fight on the inside. Once their both fights found themselves getting counter heavily to the body by Rigs. Also regardless if the Pan Am games exist any more or not point is Rigs is still the most decorated amateur boxer in the las 30 period. Lomachenko can have the best record based his one lost. Second Rig fought Sooltonov 4 year before Lomahenko did so thats not a good assessment of skill and power since Sooltonov was an older fighter when Lomahenko fought him based on when rigs fought him . Again Donald Curry was 404 -7 as an amateur and was a near perfect fighter as you could get speed, power , balance, counter puncher, and one punch KO power. In the end it didn't mean ****. Looking at both fighter Rig is the better
All these posters saying Rigondeaux is untouchable probably picked Donaire to flatten him. Now they're hanging off his sack. He is a gifted boxer, possibly one of the greats, but he throws few punches. He likes to still fight a fairly amateur style, even though I'm told he packs some power. How will he fair against an adept boxer who is busy and throwing many more punches who also posesses KO power? Let's just discuss the skills of both these guys but keep it in the realm of reality. If they fight it will be the type of fight that brings boxing back post Floyd.
too much hype for this kid and we don't even know how he would do after 8 rounds ...Arum selling out like he did Gamboa ,what's its going to take is the guy to have one bad fight and people minds will change very quickly and so will his.