By Chris Williams: Unbeaten WBA World super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux’s promotional contract with Top Rank expires as of July 15th, and it’s unclear whether Rigondeaux and his manager will be resigning with them. If not, there will no doubt be a lot of promoters that will want to land the 31-year-old Cuban.

What’s interesting is that despite Rigondeaux being promoted by the same promoter as IBF/WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire, a fight between the two of them hasn’t been made by the president of Top Rank Bob Arum. You have to wonder why he wouldn’t make that fight, because matching Donaire up against less talented and less known fighters like Jeffrey Mathebula instead of Rigondeaux makes you shake your head. Why did Arum make that fight when he could have matched Donaire up against a more popular fighter like Rigondeaux?

Rigondeaux sees Donaire as being afraid of him, saying “Donaire is running scared of any super bantamweight with power…Donaire is disappointing fans all over the world, especially Filipino people by running scared from the best fighter at 122 pounds.”

Donaire is talking about possibly fighting once or twice more at super bantamweight before moving up to featherweight. However, the fighters that Donaire is mentioning that he wants to fight are Jorge Arce and Toshiaki Nishioka. I don’t know of anyone that think Arce or Nishioka is as good as Rigondeaux. Arce is too small and is getting old, and Nishioka is also showing signs of aging. Neither will likely beat Donaire, which I guess is the whole point in the fights being made in the first place. Donaire can beat those guys, but he’d probably be in a world of hurt against Rigondeaux.