Comments Thread For: Nonito Donaire Repeats, Knocks Darchinyan Out in Nine

[Souwester]

nonito needs to open up more, he has an absolute granite chin

Yeah same thing happened in the Rigo fight. He started being aggressive too late. Hopefully this is a wake up call for him to just let his hands go because he has a great chin. I have to give credit to Darchinyan for a great fight, he deserved his career high payday last night.

[BABYBOXER]

nonito was right, vic is always prone to his left hook but vic played it smartly until he got careless. it took time for nonito to adjust and figure out how to land that left hook.. the way i look at it, it was the only fight plan for nonito.. allowing himself to get tagged just to find the right time to unleash his money punch..

am not really sure if his previous fight, long lay off and surgery has to do something with his unusual performance last night.

[NearHypnos]

Actually, if you look at the video, Vic landed the uppercut which stunned Donaire and then Vic moved away which was the game plan and not stay around for the receipt and Donaire charged forward and landed the crushing left hook which dropped Vic. Vic stuck to his game plan but Donaire raised the intensity when it mattered most. Vic may have been ahead but that's like saying a man was in great health at the time he died which still means he died. They could fight 10 times and Donaire would stop him every time. 2 KO's in 2 fights is definitive. Donaire can take Vic's best but Vic cannot take Donaire's best. Simple physics.

Vic most certainly did not step away and put himself out of harms way.

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There you go. Vic took a small step back but didnt keep going watch how he ******ly stepped into Donaires prime angle and trying to ******ly throw a lazy jab from it. He was literally defenseless and didnt even know it once he took that step to his right (nonitos left).

We all know Nonito is better but the fact Vic was in a position to win the fight is what people are talking about. This is all above vic's best weight and he's older (though he didnt look too bad last night still seemed solid).

[TaurusJ27]

Donaire looked bad.

Yeah, Darchinyan landed some good shots on him.

[richardt]

Vic most certainly did not step away and put himself out of harms way.

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There you go. Vic took a small step back but didnt keep going watch how he ******ly stepped into Donaires prime angle and trying to ******ly throw a lazy jab from it. He was literally defenseless and didnt even know it once he took that step to his right (nonitos left).

We all know Nonito is better but the fact Vic was in a position to win the fight is what people are talking about. This is all above vic's best weight and he's older (though he didnt look too bad last night still seemed solid).

You didn't show the seconds before the Donaire punch. When Vic lands the uppercut that shook Donaire, normally VIc would stay in the pocket which would have made it easier for Donaire to land a compact, shorter punch which means Vic would be sticking around for the receipt which is a mistake, that is, being on the inside where he has less ability to move out of range if a punch is coming at him from close range. Instead Vic pulls out after the uppercut he landed which was the game plan so as not to be countered inside, a game plan that had worked to this point, but instead Donaire jolts forward and lands the sweeping hook from the outside, something that Vic's new fight plan wasn't expecting which is what Vic was hoping to avoid but he was caught that way as well. BIG difference between the two approaches. First fight was a KO on the inside with Vic walking into a punch, the second KO was Vic on the outside not sticking around for the receipt but instead getting caught in a different manner. That means Vic was damned if he did, damned if he didn't. In short, Donaire knocked him out in fight one from the inside and in fight two from the outside. It is that simple, anyone can understand. Vic fought Donaire one way in the first fight by bull-rushing and was stopped and he fought Donaire a totally different way on fight two by moving in and out and from the outside he was caught. Both styles and approaches were different but the result was the same. Simple.

[miron_lang]

Vic got carried away... odds 10 to 1 against Darchinyan yet he was able to prove hes still in the game leading on two cards !! Vic proved that the first fight and the first Ko back in 2007 was a fluke

yeah

Getting TKO'd in the 9th proved that getting kayoed in the 4th was a fluke.

[miron_lang]

oh

i almost forgot



Donairre looked bad.

[richardt]

yeah Getting TKO'd in the 9th proved that getting kayoed in the 4th was a fluke.

And if they fought 3 times and Donaire knocked him out 3 times, some fools would still believe they were all flukes.

[Souwester]

Donaire didn't seem to sure in himself in this fight but Donaire pulled it together and got the TKO in 9th round the only fighter to stop Vic twice.

Thats right, Donaire got the job done when it counted. Thats why they call it the championship rounds.

[Ravens Fan]

Funny, how haters really hate.

Darchinyan is old but he is not a so-so fighter. You just can't judge Donaire on a single performance. He came from a long layoff and surgery. Plus, wasn't this his first figh int in this division?

I will stand in judgement of him, and why? Because he has looked like crap for most of the last 21-1/2 rounds he has fought.