Comments Thread For: Addition By Subtraction at Bantamweight?

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By Cliff Rold - It's an old adage. The shortest point between two spots is a straight line. The straight line was in place. COVID made a lot of things crooked. In April 2020, fresh off winning the World Boxing Super Series, unified WBA/IBF bantamweight titlist Naoya Inoue (20-0, 17 KO) was slated to face WBO titlist John Riel Casimero (30-4, 21 KO).
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[SteveM]

My head is spinnin after reading that - the article is so convoluted it disappeared up its own rectum.

[komandante]

Quadro Alas is a beast.

[komandante]

Donaire can knockout Oubaali flat in his back.

[aaronbnb]

If Donaire had fought the last 10 years at 118, he might have gone down as greatest bantamweight ever.

[Csar]

Nonito Donaire; went from fighter of the year on 2012 (top third pound per pound at the time), believed to be the next Pacquiao to mysteriously vowing to be a full time volunteer to VADA testings and immediately having his 'first' loss in 2013 then continue losing. You can make the case he might have been juicing up until 2012.

[whollisboxing]

Nonito Donaire; went from fighter of the year on 2012 (top third pound per pound at the time), believed to be the next Pacquiao to mysteriously vowing to be a full time volunteer to VADA testings and immediately having his 'first' loss in 2013 then continue losing. You can make the case he might have been juicing up until 2012.

Or maybe he peaked in 2012 and then started declining like everyone eventually does. Don’t you think it would be more su****ious if he were still performing at his 2012 level nearly a decade later?

[whollisboxing]

Nonito Donaire; went from fighter of the year on 2012 (top third pound per pound at the time), believed to be the next Pacquiao to mysteriously vowing to be a full time volunteer to VADA testings and immediately having his 'first' loss in 2013 then continue losing. You can make the case he might have been juicing up until 2012.

I took a look at Donaire’s Boxrec and he was 24 when he burst onto the scene with his win over Vic Darchinyan. He was 30 when he lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux after winning fighter of the year at age 29. When you look at his record, he had his struggles at 126 after that and he’s only lost to world class fighters, which isn’t uncommon in your 30’s at the lower weights. In other words, I think his drop off has more to do with fighting bigger guys than it did with juicing, which is why he’s still world class all these years later at 118.