If Rigo is so skilled like his stans say he is then why was he constantly off balance?

Long paragraph but he's the simple answer, Loma was too active and placed his punches far better than Rigo has ever faced.

See fights like Mayweather vs Marquez were the bigger guy with more skills dominated the smaller guy with skill. Same can happen to Loma if he flew too close to the sun.

 

Gvozdyk hits the nail on the head here. No pun intended. Talks about Rigo and the fight.

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Because he's old, too heavy and rusty.

 

Who knew you two had so much in common? LOOOOL

 

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Rigo is phenomenal, people need to stop downgrading how good Rigo is and start giving full props to how good Loma was on the night.

 

I have the thread for that!

 

Rigondeaux's reputation as a pro has been largely a creation of romantic fancy.

He's elusive and he's got some refined long to mid-range skills he uses to disguise punches, manipulate rhythm and tempo and spoil the other man's boxing, but even in his best pro years he was always too one-dimensional to ever be anything close to the most skilled fighter of all-time (as his acolytes insisted he might be). He's not even close to being the most skilled Cuban fighter of all-time. His finely nuanced but firmly singular dimension was always there to be broken and his set-ups taken away by a fighter with a notable degree of offensive creativity and lots of initiative, who wouldn't just keep buying his tricks and be cowed or lulled into his rhythm. Even a fringe contender with a basic toolkit like Roberto Marroquin was able to have his moments when boldness struck him, so the situation was just begging for an actual world class offensive talent to have a go at Rigo. (Weirdly, it was a guy like Donaire who was favored to get the job done, a fighter who'd always looked limited when his man didn't bring the fight to him.)

He's clever in his use of his lead hand, but have we ever seen a truly authoritative or consistently point-scoring jab from Rigo? Is there a hidden infighting ability we've somehow never seen a lick of? What about his painfully limited selection of punches? Forget it. With fighters like Andre Ward operating in the same timeframe, it's risible that anyone might think to label this one-geared show pony the most skilled of his era, let alone in all of boxing history.

 

I can think of 4 fighters from this era who are more skilled than Rigo: Floyd, Loma, Ward, and Crawford.

 

Rigo is a world class and very skilled fighter fighter, but has had trouble with balance in the past.
In the Donaire fight he was caught off guard a couple of times. The knockdown he suffered wasn't that hard, but Donaire just knocked him out of balance. The same was shown in the Amagasa fight where he was knocked down.

 

Rigo is a fantastic operator but has been known to struggle a bit with balance in the past

Still a quality fighter though, all fighters have faults

Also didn't help that Loma just toyed with him, Rigo got frustrated , that doesn't help with composure

 

I've honestly got more respect for the all-around fight games of Marcos Maidana (Garcia Academy Grad version) and Orlando Salido than I do for Rigo's.

 

I don't think Rigo's even in the top 100 most skilled fighters of all time.

 

How did people from the country that produced Kid Gavilan ever deduce that Rigo was their most complete product?

When ridiculous assumptions are made of a fighter on account of 'amateur pedigree', it only sets the poor guy up to appear to be belittled and crapped on down the road. It's a relative thing. Rigo is not garbage, but it probably looks like we're saying he is.