Rigondeaux, seriously dude?!

[Young Herschel]

As a Donaire fan, I can't pretend that I liked the fight. But Rigo is a very talented guy, very fleet of hand and foot. Nonito should have really pressed for the KO in the 10th. Its the only chance he had in the whole fight. Rig had him under a neutralization blanket the whole rest of the fight. He needed to let his hands GO in the 10th. That was the most frustrating part of the fight for me, not Rigo's... "Creative evading", let's call it, whenever he felt the ropes anywhere near his back.

I was dissappointed in Donaire.. He gave Rigo too much respect. Rigo is to be respected, don't get me wrong, but not to the point where you are ceding momentum of the fight to him. Donaire, to me, had the most success going to Rigo's body. Each time he did he caused Rigo to reset. Aside from the KD, headhunting a giuy like Rigo is not so wise... He'll slip and slide out of your attacks. Easier to touch the body of a slick fighter.. That's what he should have done really pressed the body attack on this one.

Oh well.. Frustrating fight to watch overall. I'm not gonna pretend I enjoyed it so I can get a "boxing purist" merit badge. I know what I saw, and I don't need to prove it by agreeing with the HbO announcing team word for word, or acclaiming the thing as a "tense" fight. The only tenseness I felt was a mild anxiety because Nonito wouldn't throw his damn hands!

I made myself watch every replay on HBO's several channels with the last one just airing at midnight tonight. Donaire's offence did go into high gear in the 10th round and he finally rolled the dice by being overly aggressive, but Rigondeaux fired concussive counter lefts into his face several times that round as he made Donaire' chase him in desperation. In round 11 there was
a counter left that should have knocked Donaire's head off his shoulders the sound it made as Nonito got careless and ran into it. Then in round 12 his face finally busted due to yet another of myriad left power shots he ran into - if Donaire' had gone for broke earlier than round 10, I firmly believe his face would have just gotten busted up earlier and he would have been knocked out because he would have paid for his overly aggressive low-percentage attack.

Look, Nonito was being overly cautious and conservative for a reason - he didn't want to run into something serious like he did in round 12 and maybe end up face first like Pacquiao

[Bahamut Zero]

Oh man, what fight were you watching?

When he had Donaire down to one eye and one hand he chased him and couldn't do ****. The only punch Nito was throwing was the left hook and Rigo couldn't mount any kind of offense.

This!

Exactly my thoughts. Rigo can't finish Donaire playing peek-a-boo on him! I'm gritting my teeth until now!