{"id":54052,"date":"2015-07-13T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=54052"},"modified":"2015-07-13T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T21:21:41","slug":"guillermo-rigondeaux-vasyl-lomachenko-may-finally-happen-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=54052","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo Rigondeaux &#8211; Vasyl Lomachenko May FINALLY HAPPEN &#8211; Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"polls-1100\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_1100\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_1100_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"dcd6c3438b\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"1100\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Who do you think wins between Guillermo Rigondeaux &amp; Vasyl Lomachenko ?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-1100-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2990\" name=\"poll_1100\" value=\"2990\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2990\">Rigondeaux<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2991\" name=\"poll_1100\" value=\"2991\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2991\">Lomachenko<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(1100);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(1100); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-1100-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=54052\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=54052\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-50432 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rigo.jpg\" alt=\"Rigo\" width=\"235\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Irishman Gary Hyde, the manager of unified super bantamweight (122 lbs.) world champion Guillermo &#8220;The Jackal&#8221; Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 KOs), has accepted in principal the offer made by Egis Klimas, manager of World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight (126 lbs.) champion Vasyl &#8220;Hi-Tech&#8221; Lomachenko (4-1, 2 KOs), for a Super Fight.<\/p>\n<p>Rigondeaux is the reigning World Boxing Association (WBA) Super, WBO and The Ring magazine&#8217;s super bantamweight champion. <!--more--> Cuban-native Rigondeaux, who now lives in Miami, and Ukrainian-born Lomachenko are both two-time Olympic gold medalists. &#8220;&#8216;Rigo&#8217; will fight Lomachenko at a catchweight of 124 pounds, which should be no problem for Lomachenko because he weighed 125 pounds for one of his professional fights, Hyde said. &#8220;&#8216;Rigo&#8217; is a small 122-pounder who could make 118 without much trouble, but he would be giving away size and weight advantages to face Lomachenko. &#8220;We would insist on a rehydration clause of 135 pounds for fight night.<\/p>\n<p>If Klimas agrees to this, then, we have a fight. Lomachenko is a masterful fighter like &#8216;Rigo&#8217; and this match- up will be a classic. We have a pair of two-time Olympic gold medalists and current world champions going at it. I believe &#8216;Rigo&#8217; is the more ferocious of the two fighters and I firmly believe &#8216;Rigo&#8217; will dominate Lomachenko.<\/p>\n<p>Klimas, you know what you must do to make the fight, just pick up the phone and call me. &#8216;Rigo&#8217; is ready!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irishman Gary Hyde, the manager of unified super bantamweight (122 lbs.) world champion Guillermo &#8220;The Jackal&#8221; Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 KOs), has accepted in principal the offer made by Egis Klimas, manager of World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight (126 lbs.) champion Vasyl &#8220;Hi-Tech&#8221; Lomachenko (4-1, 2 KOs), for a Super Fight. Rigondeaux is the reigning World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13261],"class_list":["post-54052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-guillermo-rigondeaux-vasyl-lomachenko-may-finally-happen-breaking-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54052"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}