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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: NONITO DONAIRE
By Stephen Edwards
BT: It looked like you were almost practicing with the southpaw style. How was that for you? "Well I just want to keep learning. Fighters should always keep trying to improve. So I want to give my future opponents something to think about when they train for me. I also had an injury to my glutes. Every time I would bend I would fall to my left side. So I had to bring the southpaw stance out. I was actually doing really well in sparring with the left handed stance."
BT: He seemed to give you some trouble.
ND: He was really short. It was hard for me to catch him the way I wanted to. I was trying to get him to punch, that's why I was bending down trying to make him punch. Sometimes when you fight tall, you can get caught with over hand looping shots.
BT: Then you turned around to righty and quickly took care of business...
ND: Yeah that's when I told my corner I was going to take him out.
BT: Here is what I noticed from a technical point of view. Your best waepon is your check left hook. That punch in my opinion is on par with Ray robinson's, Floyd Mayweather's and Roy Jones's...
ND: Thank you
BT: So I noticed when you fight southpaw you don't throw a check right hook. So guys can get closer to you from that stance, because you are more basic from the southpaw stance.
ND: Yeah you are right. I have to get with my strength and conditioning coach to make my right side as strong as my left side and get my hook better from that stance. I am going to keep working at it. I have been watching Whitaker and Hagler and I want to learn to fight like them from a southpaw stance. I am going to keep working at it.
BT: Your opponent was a good fighter, but somebody you can work on stuff with.
ND: Yeah I needed to get the rounds in.
BT: So where are you going next Nonito, a big fight at 118.
ND: Yes that is my goal. I am not going to sit around and wait for guys anymore. I want Montiel at 118 and then to 122 and 126. I really believe in a couple of years I will be able to go up there.
BT: You are in your prime right now a fighter's prime is from about 27-30 these days so I would assume you will make all the big fights you can now.
ND: Yes that's exactly what I want to do. I want to force people to recognize me as one of the best.
BT: Well Nonito if you do what you plan to do , you are going to make me look like a genius, because I have been telling everybody who can hear me, that you are the best fighter in the world besides Mayweather and Pacquiao.
ND: Thanks I really appreciate that, I am going to keep trying. That's a lot of pressure but I am going to do my best to prove you right.
By Stephen Edwards
BT: It looked like you were almost practicing with the southpaw style. How was that for you? "Well I just want to keep learning. Fighters should always keep trying to improve. So I want to give my future opponents something to think about when they train for me. I also had an injury to my glutes. Every time I would bend I would fall to my left side. So I had to bring the southpaw stance out. I was actually doing really well in sparring with the left handed stance."
BT: He seemed to give you some trouble.
ND: He was really short. It was hard for me to catch him the way I wanted to. I was trying to get him to punch, that's why I was bending down trying to make him punch. Sometimes when you fight tall, you can get caught with over hand looping shots.
BT: Then you turned around to righty and quickly took care of business...
ND: Yeah that's when I told my corner I was going to take him out.
BT: Here is what I noticed from a technical point of view. Your best waepon is your check left hook. That punch in my opinion is on par with Ray robinson's, Floyd Mayweather's and Roy Jones's...
ND: Thank you
BT: So I noticed when you fight southpaw you don't throw a check right hook. So guys can get closer to you from that stance, because you are more basic from the southpaw stance.
ND: Yeah you are right. I have to get with my strength and conditioning coach to make my right side as strong as my left side and get my hook better from that stance. I am going to keep working at it. I have been watching Whitaker and Hagler and I want to learn to fight like them from a southpaw stance. I am going to keep working at it.
BT: Your opponent was a good fighter, but somebody you can work on stuff with.
ND: Yeah I needed to get the rounds in.
BT: So where are you going next Nonito, a big fight at 118.
ND: Yes that is my goal. I am not going to sit around and wait for guys anymore. I want Montiel at 118 and then to 122 and 126. I really believe in a couple of years I will be able to go up there.
BT: You are in your prime right now a fighter's prime is from about 27-30 these days so I would assume you will make all the big fights you can now.
ND: Yes that's exactly what I want to do. I want to force people to recognize me as one of the best.
BT: Well Nonito if you do what you plan to do , you are going to make me look like a genius, because I have been telling everybody who can hear me, that you are the best fighter in the world besides Mayweather and Pacquiao.
ND: Thanks I really appreciate that, I am going to keep trying. That's a lot of pressure but I am going to do my best to prove you right.
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