How highly do you rate Rigo?

Capable of making anyone in 118 - 122 lb history look bad, if not outright beat them.

 

elite level fighter

 

He was an awesome fighter for many, many years. Most of them took place in the amateurs, though. If not all. He turned pro 5 years after winning his second Olympic gold (9 years after his first). He also wasn’t allowed to compete internationally for those last 2 years before turning pro due to his previous attempt at defecting in ‘07. So I doubt he was getting much sharper from then until his pro debut.

 

Over rated Boring Stinker

 

The win against donaire in 2013 was seriously good. He was untouchable that night

 

Very high. He and Chocolatito were both P4P rulers of lower weight class. Highly skilled cold blood killer. Lightning speed puncher, even the Filipino Flash admitted he couldn't see his punch. Even today when he is 40 years old, he is still dangerous and I'm quite sure soon he'll be champion again. Gotta say the prospect of him versus Naoya Inoue is very exciting.

Oh I almost forget....his left hook is deadly as hell.

 

One of my favourites to watch. His left hand is a thing of beauty .

 

Awesome fighter. Top 10-15 at 122, much higher head-to-head. I think he has a very real shot at beating Barrera and Fenech, he's awful for them stylistically. Although I do think they'd beat him. Morales and Gomez beat seven shades of **** out him, though. I'd pick him over McKinney, Jones, both Vasquez's, Palma, Zaragoza, Naz etc; he's a level above IMO. The Donaire win gets overrated but it is excellent. Donaire was 10lbs above his best weight, and Rigo is a stylistic nightmare for him, but Donaire was undefeated in twelve years and had been KOing or out-classing elite fighters around that weight for years.

And weirdly, I never found him boring.

 

Extremely good fighter, who was his own worst enemy during his prime years.
As much as a posterboy for the "if all top Cuban amateurs would have been able to go pro..." argument, as he's its achilles heel.

 

I think he might have a pretty long reign now as the WBA 118lb champ. I doubt we will see him unify with anyone any time soon and Inoue is surely going to move up soon enough. This means Rigo will be the actual champ and no one in the WBA rankings will be favored to beat him.

 

It's a pity every time rigos mentioned the lomachenco fight will always be brought up. Just a pity peoples memories are so short

 

They both get trashed for that fight. It´s hilarious.