The punch that busted Donaire's eye in the 12th:

[SweetScience]

How about a gif of Nonito's wife melons at the fight..

[ThePunchingBag]

How in the world was this a cheap shot? Just because Rigo was holding, Donaire was supposed to stop punching?

Donaire should have fought Rigo the way Mares fought Moreno.

Intense pressure, rough and dirty brawl.

[Japanese Boxing]

When I saw that I laughed cause it was so cheap, I felt bad for Donaire that he had to resort to little trickery punches like that. That was like a semi-sucker punch. But it was an amateur mistake for Rigondeaux to let himself get caught with that. It was really cheap, but props to Donaire for ceasing his only moment to land something really meaningful finally.

Welcome to the ****in' pros. Rigo tried some dirty **** too, but neither got called for it. This isn't the amateurs, it's only called cheap if you're not doing it. The pro ring a different animal.

[vacon04]

Donaire should have fought Rigo the way Mares fought Moreno.

Intense pressure, rough and dirty brawl.

Moreno had no power so Mares was able to walk through his punches. Nonito would've been knocked out if he had done that.

[letsgobrady]

Moreno had no power so Mares was able to walk through his punches. Nonito would've been knocked out if he had done that.

another thing is that donaire and mares fight nothing alike

[ThePunchingBag]

Moreno had no power so Mares was able to walk through his punches. Nonito would've been knocked out if he had done that.

Nonito needed to take that risk in order to win the fight.

If he had started from the first instead of the 10th he'd have more left in the tank to eat up Rigo's shots and survive the initial onslaught to land some of his own.

[DoktorSleepless]

Donaire should have fought the whole fight like that.

He wasn't winning a straight up boxing match with the most technically sound fighter he's ever fought.

He needed to make it a rough and dirty brawl to take Rigo out of his comfort zone.

The thing is, the times Donaire managed to get close, Rigo either clinched, held Donaire's head down, or ducked below the waist (all illegal), which made Donaire's effort to get on the inside mostly fruitless. But Rigo didn't do it often enough (because Donaire couldn't get close often enough) to really call him a spoiler like Alexander and Molina.

[letsgobrady]

Nonito needed to take that risk in order to win the fight.

If he had started from the first instead of the 10th he'd have more left in the tank to eat up Rigo's shots and survive the initial onslaught to land some of his own.

easier said than done

[Jloro]

Oh its the Donaire catching Rigo one

lol this fight was great most of the time. It was funny watching Donaire move around in the 12 after Rigo moving the whole fight, I thought Donaire might have actually tried something other than plod forward but he was just hurt

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

I truly was afraid for Donaires eye when he started protecting it so much i was rooting for Rigo but you never want to see such a world class boxer seriously injured.

Yeah, I was worried too. I've never seen a fighter trying to protect an eye like that before.