So...why did donaire look so lost in that fight?

[Kagami Taiga]

I see a lot of ppl talking about rigondeaux and he deserves it(although a good portion of it is overblown). but what happened to donaire. a few things imo. 1 and the most obvious is this was a battle between two counterpunchers. in a battle between two fighters of this type, its usually the faster, more skilled and more reflexive guy that wins. and in the end, rigondeaux was all of those things. so because of that, and because of donaires inability to change his style, he had no answers.

The next issue is that donaire doesnt throw any combinations. hes not a combo puncher. at all. he loads up on big shots, sometimes forgetting to set traps and he tries to take his opponent out. he finally ran into someone with a highly competent defense. it was simply nearly impossible for him to pull off anything. Finally donaires offense is stagnant at times as noted, but his defense is also pretty suspect. he gets hit a lot and his head movement is lacking at times and his foot work is more designed around offense than it is defense. i think rigondeaux was just the perfect storm, a fighter that donaire simply would never have been able to overcome

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Because he was fighting Rigondeaux. Rigondeauxs post fight interview was the fight in a nutshell he nailed it.




He arguably got white washed outside of round 10.

[bojangles1987]

He was forced to do something he's not good at, which is move forward and initiate the action. He appeared overconfident in his own abilities, and assumed that at some point he would land a huge shot and end the fight.

It was exactly how I worried he would fight. Rarely used his jab, winged wild left hooks, just not a good performance at all. Even when he did things right, he never followed up on it.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

He was forced to do something he's not good at, which is move forward and initiate the action. He appeared overconfident in his own abilities, and assumed that at some point he would land a huge shot and end the fight.

It was exactly how I worried he would fight. Rarely used his jab, winged wild left hooks, just not a good performance at all. Even when he did things right, he never followed up on it.

Looking for 1 punch the whole night and paid for it.

[SplitSecond]

i think donaire has great defense, great use of blocking and headmovement, rigo threw plenty in the early rounds and missed alot, but it got to a point where donaire needed to land and he had to be more offensive THEN he started getting caught

most of donaire's drop in output was because of rigondeaux's movement, he is damn fast on his feet, and donaire is too within himself and just can't stay reckless enough to be rushing on such a quickly retreating opponent with an open guard, the risk is far too high, esspecially vs a puncher like rigondeaux, you have to avoid reaching

also rigondeaux gave him so a huge array of fients and looks that it kept donaire on his toes, kept him thinking that something was coming(punch he needs to defend and/or counter), but it never came

[PureBoxingCEO]

Donaire thought he was in front of another Vasquez Jr or Arce, but what he didnt knew is that he was with probably the best technician out of the powerful boxing nation of Cuba. Rigondeaux can give anyone a nightmare.

[Mr Randy Watson]

rigo's footwork was brilliant thats why. He kept the lead on the cars with his feet. All of donaires excuses are bs... Rigo is the better boxer. Thats that.

[IronDanHamza]

He was too focused on trying to land one big shot.

2 things became clear by Round 4;

1. He's not going to win a decision doing this
2. He's not going to knock Rigondeaux out with one punch

He had no plan B. That was his problem and it's a problem he's had for a while.

That's why despite dominating he hasn't looked great against Navaez, Vasquez and co because he's too busy looking for big, swinging shot's instead of breaking guys down. Once it was clear he wasn't going to win fighting the way he did, which came so apparent early, he should have had a Plan B, he should have tried to break him down, throw combination's to the body.

He was very one-dimensional in this fight and that was ultimately his down fall.

[JmH Reborn]

Honestly, I think his head literally widened to the point where he dismissed true boxing. He lost all aspects of technique the past two years cause he was knocking dudes out. Now he ran into a guy who's just technically too sound to be caught careless like his last 4-5 opponents. Rigo is just always supremely disciplined and backs that up with impressive movement, punching power and ring IQ. Donaire needs to get back to basics is what I'm trying to say. I also don't think him and Robert pair up well

[Cinci Champ]

pretty easy answer he was outclassed thats all there is to it. pretty funny how arum looks dumb founded and says thats the first i heard of it when reporter brings up donaires ligament damage. funny as the days go by donaires excuses look dumber and dumber just like he went from saying this is hardest ive ever trained for a fight to i didnt train hard and didnt study any tape even tho in an interview he says ive seen the tape i get it now