Comments Thread For: Donaire Swings For Fences, Forced To Settle For Shutout

[miclantecuhtli]

narvaez executed his game plan???....ok so by ur logic narvaez game plan is to survive and not to win?? dude thats twisted!! lol...smh...

Narvaez expected to win as much as you expected him to win. Again, it's just an opinion. Light up "dude".

[Sugar Q]

montiel/darch >>>> pavlik/willams

and martinez is top 3 p4p right?? lol

Pavlik and Williams were more highly touted.

[Seleçăo No. 13]

2011 is a terrible year for boxing.

[sabian615]

Man, the old Janet Jackson song "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" really applies to you fickle ass posters. So, one fight against a guy who was scared to fight means that Donaire has no chance against anyone over 118? Come on, morons. Grow up. I guess with that logic, Sergio Martinez no longer has any ability (Barker), Hopkins was never good at all (Dawson), and Erik Morales will box Amir Khan's ears off (Maidana).

Styles make fights is not just some dumb ass cliche statement. It's a fact. Perhaps you "doubters," since you are so angry about being called "haters" should watch a little more boxing than just one fight a month on HBO, before you become the next Harold Lederman. This is why message boards get bad names, because people spew **** and venom, with no clue about facts or evidence. Must feel really smart in front of your computer screen, dumb asses.

[edgarg]

it would be a NOOB MISTAKE to base Donaire's potential performance against guys like Gamboa OFF THIS. . . Donaire is a "read and react" fighter, and if you don't give him **** to read, well, he ain't gonna look as good. . .

I think the guy who has the best chance to beat him, including gamboa, from 122-126 is RIGONDEAUX; Rigo is like a SUPER OMAR NARVAEZ with a LOT more punch. . .

ALso, I think if he makes it to 130, Broner beats him. . . I still take him over Gamboa - he'll time and catch gamboa with his left hook.

T was expecting Donaire to throw and connect with a good left hook almost every moment, which he had many opportunities to do when Narvaez was jabbing (but connecting). He never did connect, except a couple of times, glancing off Narvaez' gloves. He fought a rotten fight and didn't at any time, change his game. Narvaez fought much as expected, against a much taller, younger, heavier and longer armed opponent, and showed excellent defence and ringmanship. he did much better than the scores suggest, and scored more of the clean punches.

I expected, even before the fight, that Donair would get it, but not by the unjustified top heavy score. The commentator, the famous Bob Sheridan, and his partner, were both trying to "help" to make the fight sound more exciting, by constantly calling glove blocked punches -and clear misses- as clean hits, and also reversed the recipients of some others.

[Best in Boxing]

Donaires? And this is one of the top pfp fighters? If anything Navarez proved what he came to. That he can last in the fight with a bigger stronger puncher without being knocked out. I don't see much in Donaires. Another overrated fighter.

The old guy was tagging him and evading his punches. What happens when he fights someone with the same power who can do likewise? Donaire wants someone to brawl with him, but Navarez is too smart. He has my respect.

I hear him whining about Navarez not coming to fight. I mean, you were bigger, longer, and stronger than the guy. Why couldn't you knock him out? Oh you couldn't knock him out because he didn't want to brawl with you. Overrated indeed just like Pacquiao. These guys need someone to brawl with them. But they'll have problems with a defensive fighter with power. Navarez had great defense, but he couldn't really hurt Donaires.

I could be wrong. But I don't think Donaires' run will last much longer especially with him moving up.

Wow.... Obviously Narvaez and his team studied Donaire. They knew that if they were to **** with him, then most likely they would've got tagged with something and taken out. I'm sure this was this guy's biggest payday and obviously the first time he's been on American TV. He was just fighting to not get KO'd. Donaire's still a beast!

[deansixteen]

Please. I'd rather have my cats brain than a dummy like you. Who thinks I should be wowed at the anointed p4p fighter Donaire beating a 36 year old Argentian. Who moved up in weight class. ****ing idiot lol.

Well, you were pretty wowed by Mayweather's win over Marquez when Marquez jumped two weight classes and Floyd came in over the contracted weight. You're such a hypocrite!

[spoonwars]

Pavlik and Williams were more highly touted.

So boxing's a popularity game to you? True colors shown.

[Chups]

By Jake Donovan - When one fighter takes all of the risks and the other fighter comes with a defensive-minded game plan, the result is almost always going to be a slow moving affair that winds up becoming more intriguing than appealing.

So went the New York City debut of bantamweight champion and pound-for-pound entrant Nonito Donaire, who provided all of the offense in a whitewash of Omar Narvaez in their 12-round title fight Saturday evening at The Theatre in Madison Square Garden.

Scores were 120-108 across the board in their HBO-televised main event.

The expectations were for Donaire – Philippines-born but raised in San Leandro, California – to endure a stiff challenge from a long-unbeaten titlist before eventually picking him apart in his usual crowd-pleasing manner. It wasn’t unlike the scouting report heading into his highly anticipated bantamweight title fight with then-champion Fernando Montiel earlier this year.

Donaire used that particular fight as his coming out party, scoring a sensational second round knockout that left Montiel twitching and stunned and the boxing world abuzz. He quickly raced up towards the top of most pound-for-pound lists as he added the bantamweight championship to a trophy case that included title stints at flyweight and super flyweight. [Click Here To Read More]

I see what you did there.

[spoonwars]

Wow.... Obviously Narvaez and his team studied Donaire. They knew that if they were to **** with him, then most likely they would've got tagged with something and taken out. I'm sure this was this guy's biggest payday and obviously the first time he's been on American TV. He was just fighting to not get KO'd. Donaire's still a beast!

Not getting KO'd was a victory for Team Narvaez. That's why they carried him high after the fight ended like he won something. That was their gameplan and they executed it almost perfectly.