Joseph Agbeko

By Chris Williams: WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (13-0, 8 KO’s) put on a nice boxing clinic in defeating an over-matched Joseph Agbeko (29-5, 22 KO’s) by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Rigondeaux won the fight by the scores 120-108, 120-108, 120-108. In other words, Rigondeaux won every round of the one-sided fight.

Agbeko initially tried to make a fight of it in the first couple of rounds, but when he figured out he was too slow to land, he went into a shell and didn’t seem to try and win. It just looked like Agbeko was trying to survive. He’d try to throw shots, but he wouldn’t throw enough of them and he didn’t attack Rigondeaux the way braver opponents have done in the past. With Agbeko not really attacking in a meaningful way, it quickly become really one-sided with Rigondeaux picking a timid looking Agbeko off with shots at will and standing there waiting for attacks that never came from Agbeko.

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By Jay McIntyre: When I think of Guillermo Rigondeaux (12-0, 8 KO’s) I hear Bill Cosby years ago saying: “I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” The boxing public is a frustratingly bi-polar collective; prone to rapidly condemning or adoring a fighter with little justification.

Rigondeaux is no exception to this judgment and he seems to either be praised as a technician or condemned as a “boring fighter”. His match against Nonito Donaire incurred some unwarranted boos from the audience last April, and some executives at HBO apparently even expressed their own displeasure at the lack of fireworks during the bout. But what else could have been expected?

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By Gerardo Granados: Next Saturday night at Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.; the former IBF – IBO bantamweight champion Joseph Agbeko (W29(22)-L4-D0) will engage against the current WBA Super World – WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (W12(8)L0-D0). But are fight fans looking forward to see this fight?

Although Rigondeaux is a very talented boxer his fighting style and personality might not amuse too many fight fans. He has the ring experience and over all boxing skills to become a huge draw but will he be able to exploit it?

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By Chris Williams: WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (12-0, 8 KO’s) doesn’t plan on changing his fighting style to look more entertaining for his fight this Saturday night against Joseph Agbeko (29-4, 22 KO’s) at the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.

After his victory over Noniton Donaire last April, Rigondeaux’s promoter Bob Arum said it would be hard to get him fights on HBObecause of his less than crowd-pleasing fighting style had turne off some of the HBO executives. But Rigondeaux doesn’t want to change the way he fights to become a slugger that gets hit a lot like some other fighters do, because that’s not who he is. Rigondeaux has good power, but he doesn’t want get in the trenches with his opponents for primitive fights.

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By Chris Williams: This Saturday night, WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (12-0, 8 KO’s) will be defending his title against former IBF bantamweight champion Joseph Agbeko (29-4, 22 KO’s) on HBO from the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Rigondeaux, 33, hasn’t fought since dominating Nonito Donaire in winning an easy 12 round unanimous decision last April in New York.

This isn’t the big fight that Rigondeaux wanted after he beat Donaire. Rigondeaux wanted a big fight, but instead he’s got to settle for for Agbeko, who has lost 3 out of his last 5 fights. When casual fans think of Agebeko, they remember his exciting fights against Abner Mares, Yonnhy Perez and Vic Darcinyan. But what they don’t remember was that he was beaten twice by Mares, beaten by Perez and almost beaten by Darchyinyan.

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