Comments Thread For: Donaire vs Mathebula Bout Possible For 7/21, Says Arum

[Oh you out son]

Please answer this for me fellow fight fans. A lot of yall complain and piss on the ABC belt organizations. So why do yall always scream for bum unification fights? I mean Donaire says nobody knows Rigo bullsht but ok. So now its cool for Donaire to fight this guy who is even less known than Rigo cause its for a unification of titles that you all say ain't worth nothing anyway. WTF king of logic or thinking is that?

exactly. **** unification, nonito should be fighting the top guys Nishioka, Rigo .. Mares and Gamboa once he moves up. i'm so sick of this, will be another snooze fest prolly where nonito will be bored with this chump in survival mode from round 1

[DoktorSleepless]

Rigondeaux vs Donoaire is a completely meaningless fight, but possibly a dangerous one. It makes no sense to have that fight right now. I could see Bob Arum wanting to build up Rigo a bit more before letting him fight Donaire. And he is. Arum is putting Rigo in the Pacquiao undercard for God's sake, something Donaire always wanted for himself. There's no hurry. Donaire said he intended to stay at 122 for a while.

You can argue that Mathebula is also a meaningless fight. And it is. But it'll also be a meaningless fight tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, and forever really. Might as well take it now and grab that IBF belt because the timing won't ever matter. On the other hand, Bob Arum promotes Rigo so he has a hand at building up an eventual Rigo vs Donaire fight so he can save it for later when it could be bigger. Rigo only has a pathetic 9 fight pro career with zero fanfare (outside of the internet) so you can't possibly expect him to put Rigo with Donaire so quickly.

[Rocky Rode]

This is a good fight... For ESPN. I really hope HBO refuses to buy Donaire vs any of those guys. Those fights are garbage for HBO/Showtime.

I don't want to see Donaire on premium cable unless he's fighting a world class fighter. Nishioka, Rigondeaux, or Mares(depending on how he looks this weekend) would be the best choices.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

awesome fight because nobody knows who rigondeaux and nishioka are. top rank puts on the best fights.

So you mean to tell me Mathebula is more known than Rigo?

I think the case here is, let's go for the easier titleholder and "unify." Can someone disagree?

Rigondeaux vs Donoaire is a completely meaningless fight, but possibly a dangerous one. It makes no sense to have that fight right now. I could see Bob Arum wanting to build up Rigo a bit more before letting him fight Donaire.

We already know what happens when Arum let's something cook for too long. And I think Donaire loses before Rigo.

[Hindsight 20/10]

Donaire should really tell Arum off...and dictate to Arum to get the bigger fights; and not the fights with "who the F*UCK is that?" Arum is slow playing Donaires career, and the fighting fans know this...padding Donaires career with fight fans money!

[Hindsight 20/10]

This is a good fight... For ESPN. I really hope HBO refuses to buy Donaire vs any of those guys. Those fights are garbage for HBO/Showtime.

I don't want to see Donaire on premium cable unless he's fighting a world class fighter. Nishioka, Rigondeaux, or Mares(depending on how he looks this weekend) would be the best choices.

Could not agree more!!!

[tredh]

Rigondeaux vs Donoaire is a completely meaningless fight, but possibly a dangerous one. It makes no sense to have that fight right now. I could see Bob Arum wanting to build up Rigo a bit more before letting him fight Donaire. And he is. Arum is putting Rigo in the Pacquiao undercard for God's sake, something Donaire always wanted for himself. There's no hurry. Donaire said he intended to stay at 122 for a while.

You can argue that Mathebula is also a meaningless fight. And it is. But it'll also be a meaningless fight tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, and forever really. Might as well take it now and grab that IBF belt because the timing won't ever matter. On the other hand, Bob Arum promotes Rigo so he has a hand at building up an eventual Rigo vs Donaire fight so he can save it for later when it could be a bigger fight. Rigo only has a pathetic 9 fight pro career with zero fanfare (outside of the internet) so you can't possibly expect him to put Rigo with Donaire so quickly.

See there people go again with that fake build up bullsht again. Ask Gamboa and JuanMa Lopez about letting a fight ready to go right now build up.

[Roman Moreno]

So he is going after the weakest title holder in the division to unify.

And, why isn't this on the July 14 card?

HBO better not put this crap on their network.

[Roman Moreno]

See there people go again with that fake build up bullsht again. Ask Gamboa and JuanMa Lopez about letting a fight ready to go right now build up.

It's OK to build up a fight where it is more meaningful. But, just make sure you build up the fight. And, then when the build up is done make it happen.

I was OK with the Juanma-Gamboa build up. The problem with what happened there is that they stopped not only matching them in the same card, pretty much stopping the build up and Juanma got derailed.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Donaire should really tell Arum off...and dictate to Arum to get the bigger fights; and not the fights with "who the F*UCK is that?" Arum is slow playing Donaires career, and the fighting fans know this...padding Donaires career with fight fans money!

Donaire admitted to not wanting Rigo cause he's "boring" and Idk if he would want Nishioka... So as stated, he goes for the bummest title holder. Been calling Donaire's bluff for a while now, people need to start catching on to what he's doing.