Comments Thread For: Andre Ward Give Full Review of Donaire-Rigondeaux

[Cinci Champ]

The only missing on this fight is head gear...amateurish fight!

heaven forbid movement and defense were used. do you hate early ali fights as well?

[John Barron]

i can see how the fight would seem competitive to someone sitting ringside. on tape it's a different story.

[Earl-Hickey]

Stfu Andre bored, rigo is better than you can ever dream of being

[MDPopescu]

This is not "WAR"..For RIGO's fan well of course,they're happy with the results.But for real "boxing" fan who want and pay for action pack,,,BORING...
RIGO won as an amateur fight it is,playing safe and run all along,and try to engage in last round only. Cong**** to him but hate me or not,not for the boxing fan

Rigondeaux was he not entertaining by counter punching and making Donaire look clumsy all night?
Well, I suppose that S.O.G. is more entertaining while mimicking "the old school inside boxing" style.

[JBell11]

Andre Ward was ringside for his childhood friend Nonito Donaire’s Saturday night title loss to Guillermo Rigondeaux in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, and the super middleweight world champion gave Comcast SportsNet Bay Area his take on the fight.

“From a personal standpoint, I’m disappointed, but you gotta take your hat off to Rigondeaux. He did what he had to do,” Ward said. “These things happen in boxing, especially when you have a guy like Nonito, who’s fighting the best, fight in and fight out.

“He’s not getting soft touches. There’s no machine pushing him and trying to make him into a star. He’s making himself a star by fighting the best, and when you fight the best, these kind of things happen. Nonito didn’t get beat up tonight. He fought a competitive fight. It just didn’t go his way.” [Click Here To Read More]

Great read. Personally I am truly impressed with Rigo. I had a feeling he was going pull it off. I enjoyed the fight through and through. I like a good knockout like the next person, though admittedly, I am a fan of the technical aspect of the sport i.e., actually boxing. It would have been nice to see more exchanges but overall this fight illustrates how awesome a technical fighter like Rigo can execute a game plan and make an already great fighter like Donaire look real bad.

It's a bummer that Arum, media and some "fans of the sport" on the champion's promotional potential. He deserves to be praised for putting on a show. He made it look easy. I liked him before, but he made me a fan this weekend!

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

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Originally Posted by BIGPOPPAPUMP

Andre Ward was ringside for his childhood friend Nonito Donaire’s Saturday night title loss to Guillermo Rigondeaux in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, and the super middleweight world champion gave Comcast SportsNet Bay Area his take on the fight.

“From a personal standpoint, I’m disappointed, but you gotta take your hat off to Rigondeaux. He did what he had to do,� Ward said. “These things happen in boxing, especially when you have a guy like Nonito, who’s fighting the best, fight in and fight out.

“He’s not getting soft touches. There’s no machine pushing him and trying to make him into a star. He’s making himself a star by fighting the best, and when you fight the best, these kind of things happen. Nonito didn’t get beat up tonight. He fought a competitive fight. It just didn’t go his way.� [ Click Here To Read More]

Great read. Personally I am truly impressed with Rigo. I had a feeling he was going pull it off. I enjoyed the fight through and through. I like a good knockout like the next person, though admittedly, I am a fan of the technical aspect of the sport i.e., actually boxing. It would have been nice to see more exchanges but overall this fight illustrates how awesome a technical fighter like Rigo can execute a game plan and make an already great fighter like Donaire look real bad.

It's a bummer that Arum, media and some "fans of the sport" on the champion's promotional potential. He deserves to be praised for putting on a show. He made it look easy. I liked him before, but he made me a fan this weekend!

Respect.



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[GRUSTLER]

It's really funny and sad in the same breath how often casual fans, media, fighters and promoters are bias towards certain fighters and root for the losers by making excuses for them because they are a fan. I thought Rigondeaux had no shot but he proved me wrong and I'm proud of the display he put on. He made me a fan and look forward to watching him fight again. Too many B!tc# asses nowadays. Give the man his damn due. Dude won and made it look easy and he was the under dog.

[waxfondler]

Ward had better advice than Garcia

thats the damn truth, donaire's corner failed him badly. i wouldve been lighting that fire under 'nito's ass. even hinting that the fight was close was a horrible idea. 'nito NEEDED to know it was do or die that night... he didnt. we saw a hint of it late in the fight with the knockdown, but it was too late. rigo did whatever he wanted with 'nito

[MASTER1454]

This is not "WAR"..For RIGO's fan well of course,they're happy with the results.But for real "boxing" fan who want and pay for action pack,,,BORING...
RIGO won as an amateur fight it is,playing safe and run all along,and try to engage in last round only. Cong**** to him but hate me or not,not for the boxing fan

Hate you? Personally, I don't hate trolls, I just take their toll money. You ain't pay for jack - you saw it on TV like most of us, so SHADDUP! So if Rigo won an "amateur" fight, then it must have been over an amateur fighter in Donaire, jackarse!

Andre Ward is right.

And you're soooooo wrong......

The only missing on this fight is head gear...amateurish fight!

Don't get mad because Rigo made Donaire look amateurish, BTW the amateurs are getting rid of (if they haven't yet) the headgears. You see how ****** you look & sound?

Whats a boxing fan to you mean? There is a difference between a casual fan and a boxing purist. A casual fan is someone that only likes brawls and nothing but knockdowns and knockouts. Boxing purists likes a lot of the same things also but they also like what Rigo showed. They like they slip and moving along with the pot shots and counters he was throwing. He showed that he could move around the ring with intelligence creating openings i didn't see any running really.

Hit and don't get hit is the name of the game. Maybe you'd be saying something different if Rigo was more aggressive but that is not how he fights he fights smart. So he got caught in one of the rounds but then what happened? He sure f-u-c-k-e-d up Nonito's eye in the 12th and he was backing up for a good portion of that last round.

Also don't forget he did stand in front of him for like the first 2 or 3 rounds and then decided to move and as he started doing that he was catching Nonito with some good shots.

So i believe you're a boxing fan but maybe just a casual boxing fan with some knowledge of the sport. I'm not saying a whole lot or anything like that but i enjoyed the hell out of the fight and watching those slick moves from Rigo impressed me. And it was a fight i thought he had a good chance of losing.

Good post - even though I had Rigo winning, I still thought about the danger of Donaire chin-checking him. But power ain't nothing if you can't connect.....

Yep I agree.

Meeting of the minds....in an arsehole.......

Great read. Personally I am truly impressed with Rigo. I had a feeling he was going pull it off. I enjoyed the fight through and through. I like a good knockout like the next person, though admittedly, I am a fan of the technical aspect of the sport i.e., actually boxing. It would have been nice to see more exchanges but overall this fight illustrates how awesome a technical fighter like Rigo can execute a game plan and make an already great fighter like Donaire look real bad.

It's a bummer that Arum, media and some "fans of the sport" on the champion's promotional potential. He deserves to be praised for putting on a show. He made it look easy. I liked him before, but he made me a fan this weekend!

Great post! Rigo was focused & did what he needed to do & basically did what he wanted to do, meanwhile Donaire thought all he needed was 1 punch, that never came, SMDH.....


Ward's starting to irritate me. He should have said "no comment" when asked about the fight. No way this fight was remotely competitive (I had it 118-109), even with the knockdown (which came off of a push-off). Donaire didn't take Rigo seriously & paid for it dearly. Not to mention that Garcia was all up Rios' butt like a gerbil for most of the camp. So, it was both of their faults, but the onus really falls on Donaire. He had no problems making weight before, but this time he had to shed some for the weigh-in? He knew (despite his slick talk) that Rigo was a problem, that's why he brought up his knee, weight (he must pregnant with his wife), etc. afterwards. I have no respect for Donaire whatsoever after this fight - just give the man his propers & keep it moving.

[Stuntman Mike]

This is not "WAR"..For RIGO's fan well of course,they're happy with the results.But for real "boxing" fan who want and pay for action pack,,,BORING...
RIGO won as an amateur fight it is,playing safe and run all along,and try to engage in last round only. Cong**** to him but hate me or not,not for the boxing fan

Rigo outboxes donaire but thats not what boxing fans want to see