Originally Posted by
Scott22
I consider Rigo to be like baseballs Ichiro Suzuki. A superstar player in Japan who came to US and had instant success. Technically he was a rookie since it was his first year in the league. But everybody knew he was no rookie. What he was, was a superstar, future hall of famer. Rigo is not a young fighter who's raw and still has things to learn. What he is, is a really good fighter who is a legit threat to Donaire. He doesn't have many fights as a pro. But that doesn't matter. He's already the fighter he's gonna be. He's not still learning. His amateur career was a long one because he's Cuban. If not he would of turned pro a long time ago.
Four rounds at the am's, even though it's a gold medal fight, still is no comparison to being in a real prize fight and the events leading up to it- the money that's on the line; the big lights come fight night;
the crooked officials in and out of your camp who have the fight fixed as much as they can; fighting a top tier athelete who has been trained to go the distance with the same intensity and has proven that he can do such things; and knowing that a loss may send you back and you may never get a title shot OR a big-money fight in quite some time afterwards, or perhaps never again.
I don't see it the same as your Japanese analogy... jmo...
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