Rigo approaching 37

I asked you why he didn't in our discussion about why he never took on Lomachenko and you said he was too small as apparently he walks around at 122 so I asked you why he doesn't move down and make some of the great fights that could be made at the weight below. You're more than welcome to answer that now but I'll imagine you'll say something about Quigg and Frampton despite that having nothing to do with what I've asked you.

 

Nonsense. Lomachenko offered him his own purse if they fought & he won

 

500K is a low ball offer, and link the contract that says Rigs gets an eztra 500K or STFU with your trolling falsehoods.

 

I think damn near all of the cuban fighters are older than they claim,
except maybe Lara. I'd bet money on it.

It really is sad that Rigo and his team allowed themselves
to **** away his prime, his style even with the skillset is
not the type to age well.

 

Don't sell the Japanese fry cook short. Working with tempura for a living steels a man. That part time work is probably why he did as well as he did. Were he a full time fry cook, he probably would've pulled of the win.

 

At the risk of this sounding like a copout for the fighters, the business dynamics of the professional boxing game run counter to what they've been taught about the sport in communist Cuba.

People routinely diss these guys for being divas, but let's remember that their first experience with capitalist boxing is having promoters fawning and fighting over them. The recruitment phase is all about big promises- after all, you've got to convince these guys it's worth the massive risk to themselves and their families to leave.

It's not that big of a surprise that they get a distorted view of their marketability and the business going forward. Hopefully the next gen of Cuban pros learns from that.

 

Rigo's had issues with people avoiding him, but Loma wasn't one of them.

One of the more disappointing ones for me was Tete (a little painful to see since I'm a Tete fan). Warren put Tete on the backburner to prioritize Butler, so his options were already limited. He called out Rigo in February, then said Rigo was too big in August when they offered it to him. Despite coming up from 118, he'd have had a 5 inch height advantage and 4 inches of reach on Rigo.

 

The way this guy has been frozen out of the sport is criminal.

 

That much is clear because when you look at pretty much every cubans career, they all follow suite,
highly touted boxers, they come in as great potential prospects, then lose traction and their careers
slow to a crawl. They need better guidance in this environment.

 

Lomachenko is a bigger guy, Lomachenko's still got enough give in his body to go up to 135, Rigo was a small man at 122, he has no obligations to face him whatsoever in my opinion.

 

That is true, Rigo was given many chances but he's screwed them all up when it is all said and done, nobody is asking him to change his style but carrying a guy for 12 boring rounds when you can get him out in 3 was pretty much a cyanide pill to his career prospects.

 

Gamboa is the only cuban that wanted to test himself, then again look at his fighting style he's way different from the others.

 

Golovkin has fought 3-4 times a year, beat a P4P rated fighter in Brook, has wins over the #2 and #3 in the division currently per RING in Daniel and David, has had three PPVs, and is a regular on HBO.

I don't see the comparison.