Comments Thread For: Nonito Donaire Could Face Evgeny Gradovich in Next Fight

[FXDaKid]

Gradovich sparred with Donaire early 2012 to help him get ready for Israel Vasquez... Sparred at the Top Rank Gym and the sessions were pretty good.. I think it would be a solid fight

[HanzGruber]

Donaire is becoming more of a joke each day

[UL1210]

Gradovich sparred with Donaire early 2012 to help him get ready for Israel Vasquez... Sparred at the Top Rank Gym and the sessions were pretty good.. I think it would be a solid fight

Wrong Vazquez

[prinzemanspopa]

never again donaire will fight rigondeaux again ,really hi is coward ,to fight champeon more eassy in 126

Why is Rigondeaux so terrified of moving up a mere four pounds?

[littlemac]

Why is Rigondeaux so terrified of moving up a mere four pounds?

Rigo is already a small 122 pounder. Pretty much every opponent has been bigger then Rigo. Nonito with that huge weight advantage still got schooled. Nonito will never fight Rigo again. There was a reason why Nonito was ducking Rigo all this time.

[prinzemanspopa]

If he's not willing to move up another weight class, what's the purpose in claiming Donaire is avoiding him? I mean, it isn't like Donaire is fighting anybody else at that weight, is it?

[littlemac]

I guess Nonito is following Manny's foot steps by lining up fighters to avoid a particular fighter.

[littlemac]

If he's not willing to move up another weight class, what's the purpose in claiming Donaire is avoiding him? I mean, it isn't like Donaire is fighting anybody else at that weight, is it?

What the heck you talking about? Rigo challenged Nonito were Nonito claim to be the best 122 pounder and were he ruled. Why would the winner chase the challenger? Nonito knows he can't beat Rigo and becomes clear why Nonito made excuse for the last three years why Rigo wasn't worthy of a fight.

[trainhard_187]

Not to sound like a Donaire fan, but I think he'll want the rematch with Rigo after the Darch tune-up. We'll probably hear him say it in the post-fight.

However, Arum will publicly shit on that idea - he'll either say "HBO puked again at the very mention of Rigondeaux", or come up with some other reason to not put Donaire against him. Maybe a divisional duck like "There's better opportunities at 130".

As I said in another post, it seems like the popular trend to bash Donaire right now, but I genuinely believe he wanted to fight Mares and would've fought Rigo afterwards. Sure, he fought scared in the Rigo fight, but I still think he's a warrior at heart. Arum's the real coward.

This whole statement right here.. AGREED...

[littlemac]

Ppl **** on Donaire for fighting Vic (which is understandable) who is a clear tuneup/confidence booster fight...but now there are plans for donaire to fight gradovich (IBF featherweight champ) in early 2014 and ppl still **** on him for it? WTF? What am I missing here? If donaire beats gradovich he'll be a legit 4 weight world champ..and he could go on and unify for the wbo or WBA super also in 2014....

Your missing that Donaire is once again avoiding Rigo and is trying to build himself back as the hype job he was.