Comments Thread For: Nonito Donaire Leaves Top Rank, Joins Golden Boy

[bluetuazon]

i dont know if its good or bad news...good coz he gets a chance to unify the titles...bad coz he wont be able to fight wv2 juanma when he moves up....lets see what happens...

[fcastro1]

i think this is a bad move for nonito. The fighters thats going to take nonito to the next level are with top rank. the star fighters are with top rank. but hope him the best.

[lopez36]

You really think that highly of WV2? I wanted to see a Juanma fight but Vazquez? Honestly that fight won't even be competitive, Donaire by ****.

man,this guy thinks so highly of erik morel too,so don't be surprised he says donaire is afraid of vazquez...actually im suprised he hasn't said that donaire is also afraid of morel

[mikemurni]

Great steal by Golden Boy. The Filipino market is an untapped resource, and Donaire will most likely emerge to be the country's biggest star seeing that Pac is on his way out..

In any case, let see if HBO will take a hands off approach on this issue seeing that we might see a contract dispute between GB and top rank on Donaire's fights.

HBO did this in 2006 with Pac when they refuse to carry any of his fight as long as there is a lawsuit still hanging, which is why we saw Marquez-MAB in HBO, and Pac-Solis in a in-house top rank PPV.

But I doubt HBO would do the same since Golden Boy was not the one that got ****ed.. Case in point, they didn't do the same when Ortiz jumped from Top Rank to GB, and Campbell from DK to GB. In both cases these incident reached the courts, and yet we saw HBO broadcasting fight on both fighters.

[wazaa.]

OMG !!

Yes, yes, yes !!!!!!!!!!!

WAR DONAIRE !!

[namme]

I can't blame Donaire. But I'll blame him if they were not careful enough of seeing a loss coming after a lawsuit.

Rachel (in an interview) said that they were supposed to have 3 fights a year in three years based on the contract...Arum only gave Nonito 2 fights/year. He did not fulfill the contract as agreed. What are they suppose to do? Just suck it up? :?

Secondly, Donaire, even before he became a superflyweight (after the Darchinyan fight), already expressed that he wanted to unify the superflyweight division, Arum seemed not to listen to his wishes. Then after destroying Montiel, he expressed again his intention to unify, this time the bantamweights, but Arum has other things in mind as Arum kept saying that the best fights are in the 122lb and 126lb- divisions.

Questions: Does the fighter have a "voice" when it comes to fighting who he wants to fight? Is the fighter merely a pawn to his promoter...meaning, what the promoter wants, the promoter gets? What about the fighter's wishes and desires? Can a fighter fight someone who, he thinks, is competitive enough for him? Who has the last say in every fight? Is it the fighter or the promoter?

[SluggerFan]

ur an idiot if u think donaire is afraid of WV2 and juanma......

who has wv2 beaten lately??

I agree with you here. WV2 hasn't beat anyone and if Donaire wants to unify the bantamweight title (by fighting the winner of Mares vs. Agbeko) and then if Moreno signs with GBP, he can fight Moreno afterward before moving up to super bantam. And by that time Juanma will already be 130 lbs and two weight divisions up by then so it that fight will continue to build...

Personally, I think Donaire left Bob Arum because he didn't get him any big fights after he left Shaw for 3 straight years before he faced Montiel. The only reason Bob made that fight was because he was forced to because Donaire was pushing for it and he figured if he got him that big fight, he might stay. He was stuck on independent PPV cards that I never buy and with GBP, he will get much more exposure on HBO which is better for him the those Pinoy Power PPVs...

So, now, let's hope Moreno signs with GBP and then we get Donaire vs. the winner of Agbeko vs. Mares and Moreno could fight Parra as part of an HBO doubleheader and then the winners of those can fight each other for the undisputed bantamweight champ. And even if Moreno loses, Donaire will move up after that and GBP still has good fights for Moreno. In a perfect world, this all works out...

[Slick_Rick]

As long as he fights Moreno and the showtime winner then thats all i care about.

Fights with Gamboa and JML are at least 2 or 3 years away from happening, and will likely be at 130 so will worry about that then..

[MARKBNLV]

Within a year he will want out like all the other gbp fighters,when he realizes Schafer is a worm just like the rest he will come to his senses.

[wazaa.]

Amir and Nonito are gonna become BFF.

You better believe that !!