פקק, אירלנד (אפריל 12, 2015) – Unified super bantamweight world champion ביל “התן” Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 קוס), arguably the most avoided reigning world title holder in modern boxing history, will travel to London next month in order to publicly confront his mandatory challenger, סקוט QUIGG (30-0-2, 22 קוס), the World Boxing Association (WBA) “רגיל” 122-titlist חטיבת קילו.
A month ago in an unusual move, Rigondeaux’ מנהל גארי הייד formally petitioned the WBA to enforce a mandatory title fight between his WBA Super champion and Quigg. Hyde is awaiting the WBA’s decision. Rigondeaux is also the World Boxing Organization (WBO) ו הטבעת אלוף במשקל תרנגול הסופר של מגזין.
A reigning world champion hasn’t been avoided by other world champions and top contenders like Rigondeux has for the past two years since, אולי, בינוני זוטר סרחיו מרטינס, or possibly all the way back to middleweight מייק McCallum.
The top three super bantamweights in the world outside of Rigondeaux – International Boxing Federation (IBF) ומועצת אגרוף העולם (WBC) אלופים, קרל פרמפטון ו ליאו סנטה קרוז, בהתאמה, plus Quigg – have avoided the Cuban great like the plaque. Once Santa Cruz’ promoter at the time, אוסקר דה לה הויה, announced that a Rigondeaux-Santa Cruz had to happen, סנטה קרוז’ powerful adviser, אל Haymon, exercised a contract option and bought him out to avoid a fight with ‘Rigo.’ Frampton’s promoter, בארי מקגיגן, has proclaimed his fighter, not Rigondeaux, בתור מס'. 1 super featherweight in the world. מקגיגן, למרות ש, is interested in Frampton fighting Quigg in a U.K. עימות, rather than a world mega-fight for three of the four major sanctioning world titles. As the “רגיל” WBA champion, Quigg is Rigondeaux’ מתמודד חובה, עדיין, he apparently wants no part of the two-time Olympic gold medalist because his promoter, Barry Hearn, not only hasn’t pushed the issue, he’s in negotiations with McGuigan for Frampton to fight Quigg.
Former world super bantamweight champions Nonito Doniare, after he lost a unification fight to Rigondeaux two years ago, ו סוסות אבנר chose to move up one division to fight as featherweights. And now Donaire reports that his manager was contacted by a Quigg representative to discuss a Donaire-Quigg fight in England.
Another two-time Olympic gold medalist, WBO 126-pound champion אסיל ומצ'נקו, continually insists that “קו” has to move up in weight for a fight to happen despite him having no problems making 126.
“QUIGG, Santa Cruz and Frampton have showed no desire to challenge Rigondeaux,” הייד אמר. “These three fighters are trying to fool the public into believing that fight לא. 1 guy in the world is not important. While they are lining their pockets with ridiculous amounts of cash for fighting below par opponents, Rigondeaux is forced to wait around until some Asian opponent steps up. This is a sport in which we are accustomed to seeing the best fighting the best but, in the super bantamweight division, it’s the best versus the rest.
“Rigondeaux will travel to Manchester to fight Quigg, Belfast to fight Frampton, or Las Vegas to fight Santa Cruz. None of these so-called world champions, למרות ש, will consider fighting the acknowledged world super bantamweight champion. They’re all much more content to hold onto their belts than beating The Man in their weight class.”
חודש הבא, Hyde reports, Rigondeaux will travel to the United Kingdom in a bold attempt to embarrass Quigg into fighting him. “I don’t like traveling overseas unless I have a fight lined up,” Rigondeaux explained, “but I will travel to England in May to publicly call out Scott Quigg. If he turns down the chance to fight our WBA mandatory, he will be remembered for that instead of being known as a great fighter. While I’m in the UK, I will also go to Belfast to checkout Carl Frampton to ask if he wants to prove himself against the best in his division.”
Understanding that the top super bantamweight action is currently in Europe, noting a record purse ($2.2 million USD) offered for a Frampton vs. Quigg fight, Rigondeaux is considering a major change in the not too distant future, moving his base from Miami to the UK, if that’s what it takes for him to get in on the action.
Hyde also manages former WBO middleweight champion and current International Boxing Federation (IBF) לא. 1 מתחרה חובה חסן N'Dam N'Jikam (31-1, 18 קוס), former WBA Interim cruiserweight champion יורי “אל טורו” Kalenga (21-2, 14 קוס) and Georgian super lightweight לבאן “הזאב” Ghvamichava (14-1-1, 11 קוס) , as well as top prospects such as Cuban super bantamweight מארק יער (2-0, 2 קוס), Irish heavyweight עם שיהאן and Bulgarian light heavyweight Blagoy Naydenov.
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