By Lem Satterfield
Last Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KOs) captured the WBO and WBC bantamweight titles with a stunning two round knockout of Fernando Montiel (44-3-2, 34 knockouts). It was the Filipino fighter's 25th straight victory and 10th knockout in his past 12 fights at the Mandalay Bay in an HBO-televised thriller.
Former four division champion Roy Jones Jr., who was serving as an HBO analyst for the fight, was very impressed. Not since six-time champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 KOs) and eight-division, WBO welterweight (147 pounds) Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs), had Jones witnessed such beautiful skill and ferocity, all at once.
"Nobody else comes close to Pacquiao, Mayweather and Donaire. Mayweather would be No. 1 if he was active. Pacquiao is up there now," said Jones. "And then there's this kid. All three of them are pound-for-pound. It ain't about a popularity contest. It's about who does the job. This kid do the job. I see this kid doing some special things that not many fighters can do."
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here .