Comments Thread For: Hearn: I Want Quigg-Donaire, No Money in Rigondeaux

[Loque-san]

So why would you fight the best guy in the division for the same money (if it's even that) as you can to fight someone nobody has ever heard of?



Plus....Donaire is a bigger name worldwide and has American television backing. Where was Rigondeaux's last fight shown?

OK. We are in agreement then. Only a Frampton fight would be significantly bigger. Hearn about a Donaire fight: "It's easier". And he said himself he believes Rigondeaux is the toughest challenge. Conclusion: if no Frampton, this is not about money but about risk.

Donaire has American TV backing when he fights in the U.S. (or Macau). I doubt HBO would televise a fight against Quigg.

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that's still not as harmful to the sport as is blindly throwing money at hearn's hypejobs and their mismatches, thus stripping them of any incentive to ever actually test themselves and provide proper boxing spectacles for us fans. the best don't fight the best because people like you let them get away with it

for the record if rigondeaux fought in the uk against quigg or frampton i would absolutely do my best to attend it

Most boxing fans want to see close, competitive, exciting fights. Rigo would stink the place out and beat everyone pretty easily.

I don't personally throw money at Eddie Hearn's crappy cards, I pay for a BoxNation subscription and that's it. However its fans who attend fights & spend money to watch their favourite fighters who keep the sport alive.

If boxing fans consisted of Rigotards on NSB, the sport would die pretty quickly.

[Daveros]

oh goodie, Quigg fighting a shot Donaire....

[swifty007]

OK. We are in agreement then. Only a Frampton fight would be significantly bigger. Hearn about a Donaire fight: "It's easier". And he said himself he believes Rigondeaux is the toughest challenge. Conclusion: if no Frampton, this is not about money but about risk.

Donaire has American TV backing when he fights in the U.S. (or Macau). I doubt HBO would televise a fight against Quigg.

We can talk about "money" all day. If they thought they could beat the lineal champ they would take the fight in a heartbeat.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

OK. We are in agreement then. Only a Frampton fight would be significantly bigger. Hearn about a Donaire fight: "It's easier". And he said himself he believes Rigondeaux is the toughest challenge. Conclusion: if no Frampton, this is not about money but about risk.

Donaire has American TV backing when he fights in the U.S. (or Macau). I doubt HBO would televise a fight against Quigg.

Its about both. The money has to match the risk and magnitude of the fight. I mean how can anyone not get this?

You said it yourself, he can fight "anyone" apparently. So why the hell would he fight one of the top 3 fighters P4P in the world for the same or less money?

What is so hard to comprehend?

[bigjavi973]

The most avoided Champ at 122 needs to man-up and stop avoiding the beasts at 126. Rigo has always fought safety first. If he can't find a big name opponent at 122, he should prove that he's the best in and around 122 lb division. TBH I think he beats all 126 champs.

why are people acting as if rigo is a big 122 lbr and is a young boxer at that?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

thanks in no small part to enablers like you

anyway, i guarantee fighting rigondeaux would bring in more money and interest than anyone quigg has faced previously, and more than kiko martinez would as well. so, with that in mind, the only remaining reason not to fight rigondeaux is fear

as pointed out above by lacedup, team rigondeaux's bidding power is not much lower than team frampton's after all -

British fans know Kiko Martinez through his 2 fights with Frampton and two with Munroe.

No one here knows who the *** Rigo is. I like Rigo far more than Golovkin but at least GGG is battering 4 bums a year and is slowly growing his fanbase and attention to the point where the big names are having to take notice.

All Rigo and his bum ass promotional team are doing is looking for a handout. Coming to the table with chump change. His promotional team deserve a lot of the blame. I said months ago, it would have been a great move for him to sign with Frank Warren but they were looking for more handouts.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

why are people acting as if rigo is a big 122 lbr and is a young boxer at that?

I guess the same reason people are acting like getting paid to box isn't important

[Roy Jones Jnr]

Somehow i can't see this one happening.

Surely Hearn wouldn't risk the Quigg-Frampton fight by putting Donaire in there with Quigg?

[-PBP-]

thanks in no small part to enablers like you

anyway, i guarantee fighting rigondeaux would bring in more money and interest than anyone quigg has faced previously, and more than kiko martinez would as well. so, with that in mind, the only remaining reason not to fight rigondeaux is fear

as pointed out above by lacedup, team rigondeaux's bidding power is not much lower than team frampton's after all -

But he would lose. Again, I'm not defending this state of mind but you have to understand the way these guys think or you will drive yourself crazy.

You look at the lineal champions in each of the other divisions:

Wlad - Offers opponents their biggest payday, K2 has $$
Stevenson - Offers opponents their biggest payday in that division, Haymon has $$$

Ward - Has been largely inactive but we'll see if Roc Nation puts up the big bucks to bring quality opponents to the table.

Cotto - Biggest money fight in the division

Floyd - Biggest money fight in the division

Garcia - Biggest money fight in the division

Crawford - Backed by Top Rank, sells out locally


Now let's look at Rigo. He's lineal champion at 122 but he's backed by Caribe. It's Caribe's job to get him fights. In order to get him fights, they need to pay up. They aren't doing that.