So Rigo got offered 500K for Loma

[LetOutTheCage]

It's sad that a man of Rigo's talent gets such derisory offers especially for a fight as interesting as this. Unfortunately that's the nature of the beast, he isn't a big name who can regularly sell-out fights despite his undeniable talent. Could he be holding off with the hope of fighting the winner of Quigg vs Frampton?

In any case he's at an age where he cant really refuse these type of fights. Hopefully the fight does eventually happen because it would be a very interesting matchup.

[lopetego]

All I hear is QUACK QUACK from Scaredo Rigonduck

cant say I blame him, he knows he'll get sparked out by Loma most likely

and once that ¨0¨ is gone, Rigo's career is finished. no promoter or network will pay squat to him again

[OnePunch]

You actually believe Top Rank will allow Roc Nation to promote Loma vs Rigo?

I wouldn't be surprised if Roc Nation actually makes an offer for Vasil vs Rigo and pay the fighters much better than Arum only to have Arum reject it.

Face it, when you're a fighter and you have the ego of a fighter that has never been second in his sport and he's been doing it 25 years and you've received purses to fight lesser guys than Vasil with lesser promotion and you've gotten paid better and now you're asked to move up and face Vasil Lomachenko and get paid less. Forget about your own bias and try to make sense of this.

Rigo will have to pay Hyde, Caribe, Roc Nation, I am not sure if Arum gets his nose in that 500 000k. He's got to pay Pedro Diaz probably 10 % for this. Pay taxes almost half of what it makes. So what is he left with? And he's going to agree to that to fight the best opponent yet at a higher weight? Are you that bitter with Rigo's performances. A guy has two boring fights out of 16 and he should get whatever money he could get just cause he bored you.

you have yet to explain why those things are Top Ranks problem? They are NOT Rigos promoter, and are under no obligation to make sure Rigo gets compensated to his satisfaction. Thats Roc Nations problem.

If Rigo doesnt like the $500k offer, then HIS promoter can sweeten the pot. Or, maybe Roc can put him in an empty arena on BET....

[Lester Tutor]

All I hear is QUACK QUACK from Scaredo Rigonduck

cant say I blame him, he knows he'll get sparked out by Loma most likely

and once that ¨0¨ is gone, Rigo's career is finished. no promoter or network will pay squat to him again

so pay the man and let's find out is all you had to say!

[M Bison]

Loma got $750K for fighting that bum on the Bradley-Rios undercard. So yea, $500k is a lowball

Realistically how much would Lomachenko Vs Rigo really bring to the table?
Its a great fight for purist but I just don't see it being a huge payday boxing is a business after all the most important thing for promoters etc is making a profit they can't carry on without it.

[atomicsad]

Wonder what Rigo is doing with his career.

[Foreign Soil]

Fight has zero chance of happening. Rigo simply doesn't want to negotiate and is happy fighting nobodies for the rest of his career.

[daggum]

what's wrong with this offer? rigo only got 750k to fight donaire who is much more popular than loma. its not like he was offered 35k like loma's last opponent. there's not that much moeny here. money is def not the reason its not happening. if rigo doesn't want to move up that's fine. he doesn't have to.

[ИATAS]

A win over Donaire was way better for him and it actually did damage to his career. Bob Arum went on a crusade against him and then turned HBO against him. Gave him King Kong and the people from Rigo's camp advised Arum that Agbeko wasn't right for this fight but Arum wanted to blacklist Rigo. Agbeko known for throwing a lot of punches didn't have anything in him and Rigo is a small, old guy who is there to win.

So how is a win over an even more dangerous but less established LOma at a higher weight does a lot for Rigo? Fewer people will be actually willing to fight him and it's not a given he wins. Hell no, especially after Klimas is taking all the low offers for Kovalev but Loma with 5 fight will be making close to 1 mill against Rigo's 500. That's just none sense. Rigo is 35 I believe and his biggest opponent and best financial gain is Loma.

Because Rigo isn't in the same situation anymore, he's no longer with Bob Arum who never knew what to do with him anyway and was more upset Donaire lost than anything else.

Look, I agree Rigondeaux should first try to negotiate more money...but don't walk away from it! They obviously should try to maximize his earnings but at the end of the day, like you said he's 35 years old and has no options. He has nothing really going for him right now. So should he turn down Lomachenko based on principle and pull an Andre Ward and just not fight until he gets a big payday that he wants? It doesn't work that way for a guy like him and like you said, he's 35, the clock is ticking. All the reason to take what he can get now.

[ИATAS]

what's wrong with this offer? rigo only got 750k to fight donaire who is much more popular than loma. its not like he was offered 35k like loma's last opponent. there's not that much moeny here. money is def not the reason its not happening. if rigo doesn't want to move up that's fine. he doesn't have to.

Right and maybe that's the issue. Maybe Rigondeaux is saying hey if I'm going to move up a weight class, make it worth it to me, and 500k just isn't worth it to him to go up a weight class. That's fine then. But if he doesn't have an issue with the weight, take it.