By Chris Williams: The WBO wants WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (14-0, 9 KOs) to fight the Top Rank promoted #1 WBO Chris Avalos (24-2, 18 KOs) next, but Rigondeaux is busy calling out WBC super bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz for a unification fight.
That’s the match that Rigondeaux would prefer to get if he can get the fight. On Monday, the WBO ordered Rigondeaux and Avalos to start negotiations for a fight between them. Rigondeaux is no longer with Top Rank, and it’s not probable that HBO will televise the fight given that they opted not to televise Rigondeaux’s last fight against Sod Kokietgym.
Avalos has the kind of style that would make it an exciting fight for fans on HBO, but it’s likely that the Rigondeaux-Avalos fight wouldn’t be televised by the network. But if Rigondeaux can get a unification fight against the Golden Boy promoted Santa Cruz, then the fight would be on Showtime because that’s the network that has been televising Rigondeaux’s fights.
Santa Cruz expressed interest in fighting Rigondeaux recently in responding back to one of his tweets. Whether Santa Cruz is seriously interested in the fight is hard to know. He’s not the one that makes his fights, so it’s probable that it’s just a bunch of hot air.
Rigondeaux said on his twitter, “I’m Super Champion WBA/WBO/The Ring 122lb and challenge u @leosantacruz2 to see who’s the King.”
This is what Santa Cruz said “We are ready to fight @RigoElChacal305 any time any place. We aren’t afraid to fight anybody.”
Rigondeaux vs. Santa Cruz is a great fight due to Santa Cruz’s nonstop action. Rigondeaux-Alvalos would be a good fight, as I said, but it just doesn’t seem all that likely that HBO will televise the fight even though Avalos has the kind of fighting style to make it an exciting affair from start to finish. But it also could wind up as one-sided as Rigondeaux’s recent fights against Sod Kokietgym and Joseph Agbeko.
The Agbeko fight was supposed to have been a competitive one, but instead it turned out to be a terrible mismatch with Rigondeaux doing whatever he wanted for 12 rounds. Avalos is even easier to hit than Agbeko, and he’d leave all kinds of opportunities for Rigondeaux to land his counter shots.
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