Rigondeax the only loser in fight with Donaire

[HughJass]

its a disgrace to our sport that he is being slandered for performing the way he did.he showed a masterclass of boxing outfought and out thought doniare and doniare had simply no answer.all doniare's tools were taking from him that night rigondeaux could have done as he pleased from the 12 round onwards after doniare covered that eye up , imagine it was a 15 rounder he could of tko'd doniare and still be getting hated on.

[tibbar]

Rigo will always be a supporting bout lucky for him to have been chosen to fight donaire and get the chance at higher pay, unless he get a fight with a popular mexican fighter hell never be a ppv material with that kind of style(vs Donaire).

[Doctor_Tenma]

The hate is strong with this one.

[FeFist]

It's not Rigondeaux fault if Donaire was unsuccessful in cutting off the ring. Should have worked on that more in training.

[-PBP-]

$750,000 purse
Pound for Pound top 10
Lineal champ at 122
Unified champion

All in 12 fights. In what sport is that a resume of a loser?


We just getting started baby.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Rigo will always be a supporting bout lucky for him to have been chosen to fight donaire and get the chance at higher pay, unless he get a fight with a popular mexican fighter hell never be a ppv material with that kind of style(vs Donaire).

I don't think anyone expects/ or ever expected Rigondeaux to be a PPV fighter.

[-PBP-]

I don't think anyone expects/ or ever expected Rigondeaux to be a PPV fighter.

Exactly. And Donaire ain't either. What's the lowest weight of a successful PPV?

[KO'er]

I don't get these people calling Rigondeaux boring.

Fair enough, he wasn't very aggressive against Donaire, but he put Teon Kennedy down 5 times. Rico Ramos down twice and 6th round KO. 8 KO's in 11 fights before hand.

IMO Rigondeaux altered his gameplan for Donaire because Donaire was top 5 P4P, and IMO he was right. Don't get me wrong, he could have got very aggressive with Donaire, but that would have made the fight 50/50, seeing as both are big punchers and who knows who woulda got caught first.

But putting on the display last weekend, he got the victory in the end. And I think he entered the fight with this gameplan in his head, knowing he'd have a much better chance of getting the victory than being very aggressive, planting his feet and going all out. Plus let's not forget, he beat a top 5 P4P fighters, THE man of the 122lbs division. IMO a WIN is enough when beating a fighters of Donaire calibre. A win is enough.

Looking good is a plus, but getting the win against a top 5 P4P fighters is still plenty.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Although Rigondeaux put on a sensational performance, he was still pawing with the jab a lot, far too much for my liking but in doing that he exposed how one dimensional Nonito's counter left hook is, he seems to only be accurate with it from close range. Rigondeaux still controlled distance very well, and also exposed Donaire's tendency to telegraph; load up with his punches, especially with the right hand. What impressed me most is how Rigondeaux would make Donaire miss and move into an entirely different area code, that was beautiful stuff or the way he rolled Donaire's punches and got the short straight left counter to land out of some weird angles too, he made look James Toney-easy.

[Syf]

Donaire was definitely outboxed and deserved to lose the decision. However, I don't think he lost much else during the course of the fight, if it can even be called a fight. Rigondeax's style was so painfullly boring to watch that boos could be heard from the crowd as early as the 3rd round and continued until even after the final bell.

What fans observed was Donaire attempting to cut off the ring and putting himself at a significant disadvantage just to try and make any kind of fight of the match at all.

Rigondeax, on the other hand, approached the fight as if he was the champion who's belt needed to be taken. And, even at that, he still chose an extremely cowardice approach, often seen jogging around the ring to avoid contact.

Rigondeax's strategy worked. He forced a better fighter to consistently give up his advantage to try and make the fight a fight, and he was just effective enough with his potshotting to to warrant taking 8 of the 12 scheduled rounds.

In the process, however, Rigondeax may have hurt his stock more than he helped it. Boxing is only partly about winning. In fact, the sport is mostly about entertaining the fans. And, at the end of the day, the fans were bored to tears with this fight, and they know who to blame: Guillermo Rigondeaux.

Nonito Donaire, on the other hand, maintains his stock and appeal, and has almost certainly learned a valuable lesson from his fight with Rigondeax. That lesson is simply this: don't fight boring "fighters" like Rigondeax. It's a no win situation. Yeah, you may be able to run him down and get him out of there. But you could possibly fail to run him down, and look very bad trying to.

Donaire is to be commended for fighting the best, and trying to give the fans what they want. In the future, however, he will be well advised to only take on fighters that will come to fight.

This is, afterall, the entertainment business.

Oh, and don't hold your breath for a rematch, either. The best way Donaire can even the score with Rigondeax is to let him drown in his own pitiful stock.

That's my 2 cents.

I wouldn't go as far as to say all of that. Some I have to agree with. Nonito is a natural counterpuncher but he felt he had to make the fight. At the same time he was in there with a real difficult out. Rigo was in full retreat at times, yes, but he was landing shots as well. I just felt Rigo took too much time off and coasted too much, he's really playing himself with that, as talented as he is. As I've said before, I understand about defensive fighters, but his output makes Mayweather look like Leo Santa Cruz. Its not a good look, by my lights.

But HBO has embraced Rigo if you haven't noticed. I think Rigo's stock has raised dramatically as a result. He has guys on the biggest platform in boxing touting him as the truth. Pretty soon they will say, if they haven't already, that he's better than PBF. There's motive there, sure, but that's what they will say I've no doubt about it, unless El Chacal gets caught by something in his next couple fights. The two gold medals and defected status from cuba adds interest as well. With HBO pounding the drums, he could become a star. I just wish he'd up his output and not coast, the guy is mad talented. I didn't think it was fair how much he was ridden by the HBO announcing team, but that's neither here nor there to this conversation.