Boxing’s worst of 2021 in-ring action was really a one-fight race for most of the year until that one night in August from the Dignity Health Sports Complex in Carson, California. Guillermo Rigondeaux was looking to become world champion once again and would have to go thru John Riel Casimero to do it.
Rigondeaux’s plan, unbeknownst to those looking for action, was to do anything but that. Casimero’s inability to hit the water in the ocean, let alone Rigondeaux this night, made this easily the worst fight of the year and the clubhouse leader for the decade.
This fight was bad y’all. Real bad. Even for a Rigondeaux fight.
So bad, in fact, I don’t think I’ve seen anything this unwatchable. Before this hot garbage embraced the Showtime broadcast, the clear-cut winner during the year would’ve been to Shakur Stevenson in the non-event he had against Jeremia Nakathila back in June on ESPN. That fight was pedestrian, to put nicely, and Stevenson had to say sorry for it in June. It looked like that snoozefest had this in the bag.
That was until Rigondeaux decided to his in-ring Peleton in the second round of this fight onward. Check out the editing job on this highlight video below, as I’m still impressed they squeezed over two minutes out of this.
