How highly do you rate Rigo?

The Cuban Sven Ottke,very great

 

I'll always be a Rigo fan. Dude scared literally scared the **** out of the entire division.

 

Rigo amazed me and would be elite in any Era in my opinion. His loss to loma didn't affect my opinion. The majority of elite fighters in history have losses - It's something I'm ok with.

 

Great Fighter but is a cure for Insomnia.!!!

 

A generational talent indeed. He was probably the #1 boogieman of his time, slightly ahead of GGG. Mainly because for such a defensive wizard, he could really nail with the left.

The main thing with him though, he never truly had his heart in the game. To contrast, Loma wants to have a place in the boxing history, he wants to be great. Rigo however, just wanted to get paid like a regular business.

 

Same as all cuban operators

supreme boxing ability

but they're all pre-historic.

Loma taking him apart was technically & physically brilliant. Just worked him mentally and physically till he tapped out. The moment he knew Loma wasn't going to give him a break and keep moving on him Rigo was like nah bruh that's what I do i'm out. Given the size disadvantage when Rigo knew he couldn't shut him down it was over.

 

What happened to him with Loma never happened to a guy like Zab Judah, so I'm going to say under Judah, for instance. And Judah isn't even a great fighter.

Modern fighters in order of how highly I rate them:

Mayweather
Marquez
Gonzalez
Cotto
Judah
Rigo
Hatton
Malignaggi
Ilesey's neighbour

 

Supreme skill defensively. Sharp, hurtful puncher offensively, with superb timing, and footwork. Never learned how to infight, and became fairly one dimensional offensively as he aged. He mastered that left hand so well though that most couldn't do a damn thing about it. Broke the faces of a few opponents, while fighting a weight class or two too big. That he can make 118 at the end of his career and still be semi effective, suggests that he probably should have been at bantam or maybe 115 when he turned pro.

I rate him highly. He wasn't matched the best and at times he seemed bored in the ring. If Zahir Raheem is giving Morales that type of boxing lesson. Rigs would have given Morales a master class. He didn't seem to have a problem breaking the faces of bigger opponents either. On his best night, he wouldn't of had much problem with Barrera, lil Marquez, Vazquez, Jones or any of those guys in my opinion. I think Pac and maybe Guzman would have been the tougher fights for him.

 

ATG, why do I consider him an ATG you may ask? Well the answer is simple, Loma beat him, so it makes Nomaschenko look good, you know?

If only everyone on ESB was as honest as me ​

 

Way better than overrated Inoue, Rigo school prime Nonito, "The monster " struggle against old past prime Nonito

 

Rigo been great over the years.
If he faces Inoue Rigo will be crushed up.

 

Rigo was way too small and old for Loma, but I don't want to use this to take anything away from Loma's performance.

Ideally Rigo could have started pro as straight after his second Olympic gold. Unfortunately there was probably a fair amount of politics involved.

Extremely technical counter puncher with lethal power. Unfortunately everyone in his division knew that and avoided him like the plague. He was never going to brawl and fight in slugfests, his objective was simply to inflict more damage on his opponent, by avoiding getting hit.

Guys are still avoiding him. I think he'd really show something in a fight with Inoue. Don't think they will let him near that cash cow.

 

Get a grip, troll. This thread has nothing to do with Inoue.

 

He's one of the best to ever lace 'em up. He deserved to be considered the best fighter pound for pound around 2013 or so when he beat Donaire. I thought it was pretty rotten the way that people kept putting Mayweather above him when Mayweather had clearly declined and Rigo was in his prime. Unfortunately, like Lomachenko he spent too long in the amateurs, didn't fight enough as a pro, and his resume is super thin.

 

That always impressed me, Rigo not gaining any weight after the weigh ins. Most fighters cut ten pounds. He could have been champ at 115, 118, and 122 if he wanted. I listed every active champ there was a few years ago. There were two who didn't gain ten to twenty pounds after the weigh ins: Manny Pacquiao and Guillermo Rigondeaux. They both chose to fight at a size, weight, and reach disadvantage.