Why was Rigo over the hill at 37 yet GGG is prime at 36?

You're fat

 

Yes he is , start having a heart Tinman.

 

Who is saying GGG isnt ageing by the day?

FFS I have been calling him an Old man for 18 months. The guy is clearly declining and by 37 I think a mid level guy might have his beating tbh.

Rigo is/was old but IMO is actually less past his prime than GGG.

Rigo getting beaten by a bloke at least 3 weight classes bigger and also p4p doesn't mean he was washed up at the time. I think he might be now though as the mental beating he took could have ruined him.

 

Man, you are not prime at 36, who told you that lie?

Dont trust strangers, dude, dont believe what they tell you and dont eat the candys they give you.

 

Well said

GGG is actually more past his prime than Rigo IMO

However Rigo's loss was mostly down to the huge size disadvantage, where as GGG had a massive size advantage.

Kind of pathetic of GGG fans to compare the 2 tbh.

 

Blind Dumbass at it again....

 

Exactly

 

Loma fans still trying to squeeze significance out of beating an old, much smaller man. Size definitely played a factor. Loma had several fights at 130 already. He was comfortable and filled out for the weight class. His in ring weight was solid. He wasn't an inflated 122 pounder in there. Rigondeaux on the other hand, added bulk at 47 years of age, and moved up two weight classes. He also didn't have a tuneup. He was a tad slow with the extra weight. He was also noticeably smaller in the ring, Likely giving up 12 pounds or more. A bigger, younger man with quick feet, and quick hands, will usually give a smaller man with quick feet and quick hands major problems. Especially when the smaller man is 47.

 

Rigondeaux is clearly not the prime fighter he was when he whooped Donaire. He's also not shot though. He's been fairly inactive. More ring rust, then decline in my opinion.

Rigondeaux was particularly inactive though.

The Jazza Dickens fight showed that he had lost a step. Dickens isn't as fleet footed of a boxer as Rico Ramos was. Yet Rigondeaux had trouble closing the distance on several occasions when Dickens decided to use his legs to retreat, as Rigondeaux jumped in. That was a red flag for me. Lomachenko's footwork/footspeed is superb, and just as Rigondeaux had trouble closing in on Dickens a few times, he had trouble closing in on the bigger, quicker Lomachenko.

We can all see clearly that Rigondeaux has noticeably lost a step from his pinnacle against Donaire. Golovkin, it's harder to say what, or if he has lost anything. Fighting all scrubs. He only stepped up his opposition level recently with Jacobs and Canelo. If you lined up Rosado, Rubio, Lemieux, Monroe, Wade, Ouma, etc. Golovkin would run through them the same as he did before.

 

GGG was past prime, not in his prime.

 

Rigondeaux wasn't terribly faded against Lomachenko and Golovkin wasn't terribly close to his peak against Canelo.

Not a matter of such declarations being outright untruths, more a matter of degree.

 

And you're a snake charmer.

 

When was he ever peak then IB? The Rosado fight? Tex Rex arms Lemieux?
The minute he started getting hit back people started calling him old. So Golovkin was peak in the amateurs then.

 

It was actually the opposite of that. Going into the Lomachenko fight, no one was saying that Rigo was past his prime, or was on the decline. (the talking point there was the weight disparity, not Rigo's age) However going into the Canelo fights, we heard non-stop for over a year how GGG is on the decline because he was 35/36. Rigo is nearly two years older than GGG however no one was using his age as an excuse when he was about to fight Lomachenko like they were when GGG was about to fight Canelo.

 

I think both were past prime, although GGG might have been on something to perform as well as he did the last time out. If you are on the juice these days, you can compete at the top until you are about 40 like Mayweather Jr., Juan Manuel Marquez, and Sergio Martinez. Hopkins must have been on some next level **** to stay at championship level until he was 50, but there are other examples of people in mma with similar longevity before they started recently drug testing.

I personally think if they were not on anything then both were physically past prime, but I could play devil's advocate to argue the points that you raise. You could argue that Rigondeaux is smaller than GGG and smaller fighters burn out quicker than larger fighters. You could further argue that GGG's style is the better style for aging because his early round knockouts means he puts fewer miles on the odometer than a fighter who has to go the distance most of the time. And finally, you could say that the pro-fights weren't the only thing adding wear and tear to the fighters. Golovkin had 350 amateur fights and Rigondeaux had 375, so they may have similar ring ages.