Comments Thread For: Donaire: I Go For Knockouts, To Entertain, Not Points

[BennyST]

This is just getting sad. Apart from that one punch coming out of a clinch, Rigo threw more, landed more, hurt Donaire more, and had him going at the end and nearly stopped him.

Walking around following a guy but not actually throwing or landing anything doesn't mean you're entertaining.

It does however mean that you lost badly. Time to stop talking about it.

[DannYankee]

bro , rigo did great againts nonito...schooled him bigtime but to downplay nonito's accomp is downpalying rigos too given it's riog's best win by a country mile ( like hatton likes to call it ).. their resumes are 2 planets apart... rigo does good againts a good counter puncher...we've never seen him againts other styles with the caliber near of nonitos....

That is true he stacked up good names but that whole 2012 fighter of the year he had,but ask yourself this if Rigo would have been offered those fights against the exact same guys don't you think he would have looked good? Or at least better than he did against Nonito who got put on the fast track to super star cash cow status, lets face it is way easier to do with him because he already has an established following, not really did it against easy guys by no means but last year was but vulnerable champions, with great match making they put him in with the right guys with the right style on the path to super star status. And any other style than Nonito who is a great counter puncher would mean its even better suited for Rigondeaux who thrives on guys who come forward and lets not forget something else he has >12 pro fights< id put Rigo's 12 fight resume against anybody else's resume when they had even 20 fights including Donaires.


Rigo's ride has been way bumpier, which can be very frustrating for a fighter and when HBO pushed to put him against Donaire it was thinking he was just another sacrificial lamb 1 more step for Nonito to get to so they could cash in their cow and the rest is history including the greatest backfire ive seen in a while. Rigoneaux is one of those fighters that shines with a higher level of opposition and i thought Donaire would be the same i even said Donaire had an edge to win in this fight all over this forum because Rigo short pro experience. Until the first round was through ofc then by the time Rigo was clowning Donaire i was like

[puga]

That is true he stacked up good names but that whole 2012 fighter of the year he had,but ask yourself this if Rigo would have been offered those fights against the exact same guys don't you think he would have looked good? Or at least better than he did against Nonito who got put on the fast track to super star cash cow status, lets face it is way easier to do with him because he already has an established following, not really did it against easy guys by no means but last year was but vulnerable champions, with great match making they put him in with the right guys with the right style on the path to super star status. And any other style than Nonito who is a great counter puncher would mean its even better suited for Rigondeaux who thrives on guys who come forward and lets not forget something else he has >12 pro fights< id put Rigo's 12 fight resume against anybody else's resume when they had even 20 fights including Donaires.


Rigo's ride has been way bumpier, which can be very frustrating for a fighter and when HBO pushed to put him against Donaire it was thinking he was just another sacrificial lamb 1 more step for Nonito to get to so they could cash in their cow and the rest is history including the greatest backfire ive seen in a while. Rigoneaux is one of those fighters that shines with a higher level of opposition and i thought Donaire would be the same i even said Donaire had an edge to win in this fight all over this forum because Rigo short pro experience. Until the first round was through ofc then by the time Rigo was clowning Donaire i was like

thats the thing , i dont think he would've .....i dont think rigo would've topped what nonito did to montiel ..or darchinyan or mathebula ....esp that we've seen him struggle vs way lesser fighters....even if i did , it would've still made my opinions worthless becuase it never happened...

[DannYankee]

thats the thing , i dont think he would've .....i dont think rigo would've topped what nonito did to montiel ..or darchinyan or mathebula ....esp that we've seen him struggle vs way lesser fighters....even if i did , it would've still made my opinions worthless becuase it never happened...

It might still happen someday but i was referring to last years opponents but of all the guys you mentioned i see him having issues timing Darchinyan because he is one random akward ass fighter but last year specially meaning Jorge Arce, Nishioka,Mathebula( although tall gets body demolished) ,Vazques. All those guys would put the hurt on them he would look way better than he did against Donaire at least, its my point not that he would look better than Donaire did against every one of them and whenever Rigo has been lame it has been against crappy opposition as you said, you can see he didnt even want to be there he was just there to get the W and get out.

He's never that way in big name fights willy Casey and Rico ramos had the bad luck of giving him the sense they where big names because they had belts and look what happened to them, i think he would be just as laser focused as he was against Donaire against any of those guys we mentioned.

[mrpleaseplease]

used to like nonito, but his constant excuses and whining is getting a bit much. i'm actually gonna call bs on this cause everyone knows the object of our sport is to get the w. if nonito is worried about anything besides the win, he's mentally already checked out. rigo gonna school him again in the rematch if it happens. After seeing donaire against rigo, makes me feel like mares would have beaten him aswell, but we never know I guess.

[Syf]

The whole fact of the matter is that Nonito was not punching at all, he just walked forward with his guard up while getting jabbed in the mouth. Anytime he tried to throw he got popped with a stinging hard left. He didn't want to be in there anymore and he definitely showed it when he was so down on the cards, got punched in his eye and started running away like a coward.

What fight were you watching? Rigondeaux threw much more than Nonito did and landed much more. You would of had an argument if Nonito threw more but he didn't..

Nah the announcing was horrible. Use your own eyes. Nonito scored more to the body than he was given credit for (because he couldn't find the head), and Rigo took several of the middle rounds off and just skated around and his output was very low. There was one round Jim said Rigo landed 8 shots, quoting compubox.. I rewinded my dvr and... no.. no at all. He hardly threw 8 shots, let alone landed 8.

Also I don't buy that Rigo was more active than Nonito throughout the fight. As far as thrown punches, Nonito threw more. As far as landed punches, Rigo landed more. That was the fight I saw.

Get it.... Stop over glorifying ****... Rigo's win was good enough but it would have been better if he didn't let Nito knock him down. And it would have been even better if Rigo had upped his damn output and knocked Nito out.

Nah, we were treated to fancy footwork and the occasional left instead... Then asked by people like y'all to treat him like the second coming.. Having to sit through threads claiming he's better than Ward and freakin Mayweather...

But other than that aside from a boxing purist point of view.... who are most definitely in a functional minority.. Rigo doesn't have an exciting style. Sorry!

[solution2506]

No all then in 1 nignt

[Public_Enemy]

Nonito wasn't throwing combinations because he was gun shy. Those hard, accurate counters from Rigo were very discouraging. Donaire talks about going for the KO but he literally ran in the 12th round. I like Donaire but the excuses are lame.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Nonito wasn't throwing combinations because he was gun shy. Those hard, accurate counters from Rigo were very discouraging. Donaire talks about going for the KO but he literally ran in the 12th round. I like Donaire but the excuses are lame.

I love watching Rigo fight, but I would really love to see him be a little more active. He hits very hard. Not one-punch-KO-power hard, but very hard nonetheless. People think Donaire was being tentative because he was having an off-night; Nonito was tentative because he was feeling "El Chacal's" power. That twelfth round was embarrassing for Donaire, as far as I'm concerned. How often does an acknowledged P4P fighter run for his life like that?

[alembic]

In the 12th, Rigo knew Donaire was reeling from that left counter to the eye. He had the fight in the bag and could've coasted the rest of the round; but he went for the fences, looking to take Nonito out. It was encouraging to see a defensive specialist with a vicious streak.