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

[bojangles1987]

That was crazy, I didn't know what the hell happened. You don't see fighters glue their glove to their eye like that very often, even when they get thumbed and it starts to swell like that immediately.

[Jloro]

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

lol it was like ortiz with his jaw against lopez.
I thought he was going to trick rigo but he was actually holding it

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

I saw the punch but didn't think it was that severe. At first I thought Donaire was playing hurt to lure Rigo into being more aggressive but then I saw him doing nothing but running and knew the eye was truely hurt.


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[elgranluchadore]

that was like the punch marquez caught pacroid with, i guess thats why donaire was so hesitant of letting his hands go

[Dr Rumack]

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.

He needed to try something anyway, it can be difficult for guys to do that in a crisis moment when it's not really part of their toolkit though. The often end up just doing it really badly. Mares on the other hand would have gone after Rigo's balls like a dog in heat.

[Bushbaby]

People are hating on Rigo's potshot. Twas a thing of beauty. I mean every time Donaire attempted to throw, Rigo let 1 rip twice as fast, snapping heads and shaking him up.

[SkillspayBills]

How about a gif of Rigo "Floyd Mayweathering" Donair. Hits him with a hook, ducks the return punch and moves away.

[puga]

thats was scary .. good thing it happened in the 12th or else he could've been stopped....

[kiaba360]

I really like this one. Rigo going for his trademark body shot to the liver, gets tapped with Nonito's trademark left hook (yes, Nonito's vaunted left hook) and instead of putting his hands up to defend, he's fast enough to regain his footing and land a stiff straight left.

[Bermuda]

Hopefully Donaire didn't sustain Margarito-like damage to his eye.

i hope so too..but then again it happened late and didn't sustain much further damage like margarito.