Cuban fighter Guillermo “Chacal” Rigondeaux came to realize that cultivating boxing…was a field that would yield crops!  

“I did not know anything about boxing, I just ran, but they wanted to take me to work in the fields. One afternoon they told me I was going to fight against boy who was even smaller than me, but he already had four years of boxing experience and… I didn’t!  Yet  I saw it was my only option so I said, well, let’s go for it,” recalls the Cuban, who doesn`t tend to beat about the bush!

 Nothing was cut and dry, but with humor he remembers that: “I had never put on boxing gloves. But it was that or ending up  working in the fields, and it`s not been easy. I`d never thought about doing all this, but now  I`ve clocked up more than 20 years old of dishing out and receiving punches.”

So, the former Olympic double medalist in Sydney 2000 and in Athens 2004, is fully focused on returning, as the cream of the crop, dusting himself off, following the  defeat by Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko.

Rigondeaux is looking to harvest victory against Mexican Julio “Pollito” who`s also a former world champion. The fight is on June 23 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, as  a WBC super-bantam eliminator.

WBC Press Release