people need to stop saying "oh Rigo would do much better in a lighter weight class, Loma is too big for him" etc... Dude 6 pounds?? that's really gonna be that significant?? I can take a crap and lose 3 pounds... Heavyweights sometimes have to fight guys who are 100 pounds heavier and almost a foot taller. Valuev vs. Haye comes to mind. and Haye still schooled him. Rigo was mentally destroyed like Loma's 4 past fights.
Valouev beat Haye, but Don King's judges gave a split decision to Haye, even Jim Watt said that Haye had to throw punches to win the fight, all Haye did was run like hell! Jim Watt wanted Haye to win, but was honest. Rigo's fans claimed that he would knock Lomachenko out.....................on this board and many others, plus YouTube was so damned biased! Never seen so much hate...................Rigo is a dirty fighter, Tim Bradley warned Lomachenko about that, but Lomachenko knew from Rigo's last fight..................Rigo is a cheater like all Roc Nation fighters...............
Not really for someone who had over 400 amateur fights at Bantamweight. While Loma had all of his at Lightweight. The height difference was apparent, too. Rigo has broader shoulders.
Rigo had the longer reach and refused to fight Lomachenko at 126 while he had the chance. Later Rigo kept using Twitter to run his mouth about Lomachenko, Lomachenko did not want that fight, but the fans wanted it, so he fought him.....................Lomachenko wants to fight the other champions at 130 if possible, if not he will fight Mikey Garcia if Garcia will take the fight................he wants to stay active..............almost everyone was saying that Rigo would knock Lomachenko out, etc., esp. on YouTube...................that was the fight that fans wanted, if Rigo wanted it at 126 he could have had it at 126 before, but he refused, then changed his mind. Rigo weighed 130 on fight night, Lomachenko weighed 137 fight night..................Lomachenko said he would not get any credit for beating Rigo, but actually he did get credit, it was the way he won, he was faster than Rigo.................
