The fight was what it was because of Loma, pure and simple. Rigo is a highly skilled, fighter that primarily used speed and reflexes. He is now older and getting slower, and went up against someone equally speedy, skilled and larger, and younger and in their prime. He was made to look amateurish by perhaps the top talent currently on Earth. He's older, smaller, and less skilled than Loma. Let's be honest, who anywhere near Loma's weight wouldn't be made to look just as foolish?
Mikey Garcia at 135 stands the best chance which is why everybody wants them to fight. Rigo looked like an idiot against Loma.
Loma is a great fighter who beat an older smaller great fighter At 126 with a younger version of Rigo the fight would have been much better
How about we just wait until Lomachenko is 37 years old or any high level fighter for that matter. Let's wait until he is 37 and request that he jumps 2 weight classes to fight the best boxer in that division. One thing that I can confidently bet my life on is that no 37 year old boxer will ever be capable of jumping two weight classes to successfully defeat a top p4p talent. Won't happen. As far as being outclassed no he wouldn't be but are talking a prime active 122lb Rigondeaux or 37 year old 130lb version?
Maybe. But how much was that due to poor positioning. Although I guess you could say that positioning and footwork is both a defensive and offensive thing. At the end of the day he was outclassed.
This is like asking if Pacquaio would always lose at the "elite level" because he was thoroughly outclassed by Floyd.
Yes he was 37, but being 37 didn't make him constantly off balance. Did it make him slower and is it bad for his stamina? Yes age will slow you down. But first he didn't throw enough punches to drain his own stamina and two he didn't have the skill to apply what speed he had left. It's not because he lost. It's how he lost. Most people expected Loma to win, but again that isn't the point. The point is how Rigo lost that makes it so bad on his part.
Well he's already beaten MAB, Marquez and Morales rendering that an inaccurate comparison. Since Rigo's only other fight in that same "class" is a Flyweight named Donaire. Who isn't really in that "class" to being with.
Yeah, but Pac looked like an incapable mediocrity against the only truly elite he ever faced. And Pac wasn't moving up two full weight classes when Floyd outclassed him.
You’re exaggerating. Rigo is not as bad as you are saying. But definitely overhyped, especially considering the comp he had. And Loma is better than you are saying. He clowned Rigo without relying on size or weight. That was inconceivable to all but a few observers (myself being one of the few of course)
MAB, Marquez and Morales are ATG fighters. There is no higher level than that. You can't just say Floyd was the only elite fighter he fought because again there is no level beyond ATG.
No, because the fight I envisaged in my article came to pass. Loma is a stylistic nightmare for Rigodeaux, but Rigo is still a stylistic nightmare for basically everyone else. https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...ia-awaits-el-chacal-inside-the-matrix.598318/
I rate Loma as p4p #1 and I'm not a Loma fan. I enjoy watching him, but he's hardly one of "my guys".
You could very well be right, but Rigo's resume is so poor for a guy of his reputation and stature that we will never know.. He never fought p4p level guys or even guys on the fringes of p4p and when he did they were either a Flyweight or he got tooled.