Guillermo Rigondeaux Scores Quick KO Win Over Dannis Aguero
Even at age 44, former bantam and super bantamweight champ Guillermo Rigondeaux has something to offer the sport, at least at a certain level.
Even at age 44, former bantam and super bantamweight champ Guillermo Rigondeaux has something to offer the sport, at least at a certain level.
There is, quite amazingly all things considered, still talk of a possible – but not at all realistic – fight between Naoya Inoue and Gervonta Davis.
Now, this one has come right out of left field. According to reports, Cuban stylist, former amateur standout and former bantam and super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, will add his name to the perhaps slowly developing list of fine boxing champions to have jumped ship to the world of bare-knuckle fighting.
His critics say he’s boring, but Cuban southpaw Guillermo Rigondeaux is still putting guys to sleep. His opponents, that is. Last night, boxing on the Don King card that was headlined by Adrien Broner’s wide points win over Bill Hutchinson, 42 year old Rigondeaux took out unbeaten Puerto Rican Charlie Clemente-Andino, this with a perfectly timed left hand to the body that dropped Clemente-Andino hard and left him rolling around on the canvas in pain for some time.
In a fight that will see one man return to action following a seven-year absence from the ring, veteran Guillermo Rigondeaux will box the second fight of his latest comeback on the Adrian Broner-Bill Hutchinson card in Miami, Florida this Friday night.
Last night at Hialeah Park, former WBA bantamweight and former WBO/WBA super-bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux returned to action following a significant layoff that was forced on him after he suffered facial burns in a freak cooker explosion in his apartment some months back.
Photo by Damon Gonzalez / Latinbox Sports – Weights:
Guillermo Rigondeaux 118.8 – Jesus Martinez 119.6
Ariel Perez De La Torre 122.2 – Yonfrez Parejo 123
Francisco Rodriguez 144.8 – Brodyx Gilman 149.8
Damian Lescaille 153.4 – Lucas McDonald 154.8
How many lives has Cuban stylist Guillermo Rigondeaux got?
Reports have come out regarding the “freak accident” Cuban stylist and one-time pound-for-pounder Guillermo Rigondeaux was the victim of in his home yesterday.
It really was Upset City in the boxing world last night. We saw Chris Colbert beaten, and comprehensively so, by 22/1 dog Hector Garcia, we saw Josh Taylor beaten by another hefty dog in Jack Catterall – if not officially but in the opinion of just about everyone who saw the fight aside from two of three ringside judges – and we saw the once sublime Guillermo Rigondeaux beaten by heavy Filipino outsider Vincent Astrolabio.
A week or so later, and has a fight, or its result – or its so-called complete lack of action – generated such a backlash of reports, of criticism?