Why is it seen as acceptable for everyone to avoid rigo ?

Blame his manager and promoter. It's not Rigo's job to make fights. That is his manager and promoters job, and why they earn their pay.
If a fighter ducks Rigo, his manager/Promoter are supposed to be in the press like Hearn and Mayweather, promoting their fighter.
GBP, no matter what your opinion of them is, they are always promoting Canelo. Always in the press, and always making him fights to feed his family.

Rigo is a great boxer, but llike Pac, he must be as dumb as a brick, or else he'd gotten rid of the dead weight tied around his neck along time ago.

 

The boxing world just REWARDED Frampton and Santa Cruz for ducking Rigondeaux and regardless of how much of a farce Rigo is, I will always be disgusted by that and the fans who overlook it.

Rigo is still a master because love him or hate him, he stays in punching range.

Promoters shameful excuses has become reasonable and is even parroted by some. Smh!

 

He can fight me. $100,000 is all I ask.

 

Good luck getting his manager to answer the phone.

 

What's been done to rigo one of the best fighters in the sport is a cruel joke. Arum bashed him when he promoted him and hbo basically black balled him.

 

It's always been acceptable to avoid guys like Rigo, all throughout history. Personally, I hate watching two guys take serious damage, but at the end of the day, fans are there to watch a fight.

While guys like Rigo are perhaps the best boxers in their divisions, they do not use their skills to initiate a fight and would be content with doing as little as possible to win the fight.

In contrast, the guys that use their skills to hurt their opponents like Crawford and Lomachenko are considered exciting fighters and would likely be excused if they avoided a guy that is known to be hard to look good against.

At the end of the day if Rigo doesn't fight or agree to some stipulations that heavily stack the fight in his opponents favor, he will likely fade away into obscurity. Rigo is definitely talented and I don't blame him for using a defensive style that can be destructive when his opponents are aggressive. Rigo's control of distance is among the best in the sport.

At the end of the day though, people generally like to see action in some shape or form. Rigo fights typically don't provide any action.

 

It's a very odd situation. He's the true champion at 122 lbs, and no one wants to fight the guy. In fact, all the top tier guys left the division and moved up to 126 instead of fighting him.

Guys like Mares, Frampton and Santa Cruz, all fighters that I really like and think are entertaining, had no interest fighting Rigo. Rigo would've been more than happy to fight those guys in their backyards as well.

It's a tough situation he's in because he doesn't have a fanbase whatsoever which is odd given how great of a fighter he is and that he's willing to take on all comers. I personally enjoy watching him fight, he's a master technician in the ring- but I can see why fans haven't fallen in love with his style and why his opposition are reluctant to get in the ring with him. he can make really good fighters look rudimentary, and I don't think any fighter wants to sign up for that.

The only guy I can think of that reminds me of Rigo's situation is a younger Mayweather Jr, during the time he had no established fanbase and was having a pretty difficult time getting other champions in the ring with him. If Rigo was a popular fighter, he would have a myriad of options available to hm.

 

Because Rigondeaux isn't actively trying to fight any name fighters.

Are you telling me that in the last 3 years Amagasa, Francisco and Dickens are the best fighters willing to fight him? Think again.

Rigondeaux needs to do what Kell Brook did when he wasn't getting big fights- PROVE he wants them. Move up, have a crack at Lomachenko.

Fighting Dickens on Boxnation when you could've fought Jamie McDonnell on the GGG-Brook undercard on Sky Box Office isn't a look of a man who is trying to fight the best.

He's got a guaranteed contracted with Roc Nation. In Rigondeaux shoes, the worse the fighter the better. And seen as Roc Nation have a **** relationship with every promoter around, they aren't gonna secure them either so Rigo is laughing all the way to the bank.

 

Rigo is a hideous looking creature. Gollum pulls more poon than Rigo.

 

You could say the same about people fighting GGG. GGG is probably more beatable than Rigo because GGG's style is more risky, but you have to give guys that fight him a lot of credit because it appears as if you have to walk through a considerable amount of punishment to beat him.

Why would anyone fight a guy like that if they can get a good payday fighting an easier opponent? Now, Rigo likely won't put someone in the hospital, but he is too hard to beat, so it doesn't do much for a guy's profile. Also, the possibility of knocking Rigo out is slim to none.

 

Tradition. And he's boring.