Better fighter: Shakur Stevenson or Guillermo Rigondeaux (prime)

Rigo is one of the greatest amateurs of all time, a 2 x Olympic gold medalist/2 x World Amateur gold medalist, one of the most skilled fighters of all time, with devastating bone breaking/face rearranging power for a leprechaun and mongoose reflexes. And he didn't even turn pro till he was 29, ten years older than what Shakur was when he turned pro. People keep conveniently forgetting these things when comparing fighters who turned pro in their teens to great amateurs who turned pro in their mid to late 20s.

Beating a prime ranked P4P #3 at the time IIRC Nonito in the manner he did is an infinitely better win than anything Shakur has achieved yet. I'm not saying he isn't really talented and won't go on to achieve great things but imagine him in there against a same size Rigo who would not only be super slick, super skilled, and super fast but also super powerful too

 

Rigo beating a bigger prime Nonito in his country who was a murderous puncher not only at that weight but the weight above is a much better win than Shakur beating a same size Teo on at worst neutral soil who has 1 KO and 1 KD in 7 fights at 140 and should've been 4-3 in his last 7 fights and had already lost 2 fights at 140 in all bar the judge's eyes.

When was the last time Teo knocked anyone dead? Nonito was literally knocking many world champs and contenders dead in HL reel fashion both before and after fighting Rigo and at higher weights. Teo has 1 KD at 140 vs D level

Pump the goddamn breaks already

 

Yes he is. Nonito was ranked #5 P4P at the time and even when old and past his prime gave the current P4P#2 his toughest fight and, as said, still an extremely dangerous puncher at that weight, below and above with lights out one punch power. Teo's power hasn't been near as effective or impressive at 140 as it was when he was a massive weight bully at 135

 

Different fight and the fact Loma was able to make a P4P supremely talented and skilful magician like Rigo who had over 400 fights fighting the best in the world for most of his life came up through the mighty Cuban system and has seen every style there is to see pull a no mass through nothing but the application of otherworldly skill and technical wizardry just goes to show how supernaturally skilled Loma was and especially at that weight.

The fact Rigo who has never before or after shown any sign of being a quitter had no answer for his puzzle to the extent he become so frustrated that his only answer to it was to resort to dirty tactics was mind blowing when you think about it

But as a Brit I concur that you never quit. Brits don't quit