Heard both Lomachenko and Rigondeaux looked awful. Is this true??

Rigo surely didn't. He felt the power difference early doing everything he could within the rules to stall and clinch. I'm surprised it took as long as it did for the ref to take a point away.

Loma couldn't impress. Rigo didn't want to fight. It may be a career-ending fight for Rigo. He wasn't popular before and the quit job may be the nail in the coffin.

 

Thank god you finally jumped off Lomas brittle face. It was wearing thinner than Lomas apparent thin skin.

 

Loma looked as good as it is possible to against Rigo without shattering his glass.

 

How can it definitely go 12 rounds and it only go to the 6th lol ??? If he didn't quit he would've been swarmed and stopped, he knew it and he was getting zero breaks for holding off the ref. He was forced to fight or defend out of his comfort zone. His retaliation to Loma was getting weaker and weaker, and loma was starting to climb over him !

 

He wouldn't have been stopped. Loma had problems hitting him clean, and what did land wasn't very concussive. A moot argument anyway, Loma did what he should have done against an older, slower, smaller man, who allegedly injured his hand earlier in the fight.

 

Sounds like you're making excuses. The uppercuts were starting to land, the body shots were landing it was only a matter of time until the wheels fell off. It was a complete destruction.

 

He'd make Kim Jong Il quit sooner than Rigo did.

 

After 3 or 4 rounds I just rolled over in bed and listened to the rest.

 

A guy stays leaned over with his guard up, and lets the opponent throw three uppercuts in a row without countering. I can't explain that ****. I'm a Rigs fan, but WTF was that? Yeah, Loma did what he should have did props to him. Boo to Rigs for talking all that ****, and it playing out like that.

 

It was an ugly fight with a lot of wrestling in the clinch. Not much landed from either guy. Rigo fought in a negative manner, and Loma missed a lot of shots.. while Rigo hardly threw shots at all and when he did.. he didn't land.

Not a good fight, and a strange ending. I stand by my take last night that Rigo quit because of the point deduction and knew that if he wasn't allowed to hold at all he'd lose, and if he did hold he'd be DQ'd eventually.

Refs should just break fighters and reset and let it go. Guys tie up guys all the time when they get inside, nothing new there. Just break 'em and get on with it. The ref didn't help make the fight any better.

 

Also Lomo shut down the punch, grab and hold game from Rigondeaux
I felt Lomo went overboard a few times but it’s Boxing

 

Loma looked like Loma. His performance was neither bad nor overly impressive. It was a nothingburger in terms of significantly adjusting any reasonable observer's assessment of him. Rigo looked every bit the inactive little old man he is. We did learn that the Cuban lacks the competitive drive to fight on and search for answers when things aren't going his way (his one-dimensionality was also explicitly confirmed in this), as well as lacking the balls under fire of countrymen like Erislandy Lara and Yuriorkis Gamboa. He utterly evaporated all the goodwill I (and many other observers) had felt for him in light of the concessions he made to make the fight happen and his ostensible willingness to test his limits - if he'd shown some industry, tried to do something different and failed valiantly, that goodwill would still be intact.

In other words, we were treated to the shocking revelation that Loma is quite a bit more talented than James D. and Moises Flores.

2014 Salido and Gary Russell Jr. are still Loma's stiffest opposition thus far. Everything since has been very nicely calibrated.