Donaire fails to impress.

[face untouched]

Donaire looking like an amateur in there. Where was his defense and footwork? He's never going to be more than Rigondeux's victim

[Cubanborn87]

Rigo did take his soul indeed

[Drunk Punch]

Worst I've seen Nonito for years. He has a severe loss of confidence.

[New England]

**** Rigo took this boys soul indeed, and after seeing this fight is obvious Rigo has some fking chin as well. Most importantly his defense and offense where castrated by Rigo really sad really.

rigo has great defense and timing. if you've watched the rest of his career you'd know that he doesn't havea great chin, and that he's been hurt and wobbled on several occasions.

[KickAzz]

donaire's always had problems when he looks for one shot. darchinyan is right, donaire is one dimensional. his one dimension is pretty awesome but take away his counter hooks then he's very beatable. he seems to have difficulty in mounting a sustained offense, especially with counter punchers with pop. his ring antics look silly too. his boxing skills are limited but he has gifted athleticism that bails him out most of the time. I think that he's peaked and he'll start to struggle more now that people know how to fight him.

Gotta agree, Donaire doesn't have a great offense. He's great at countering though.

[Godsfly]

So your saying Donaire was so great at that weight after struggling with Vazquez Jr. and Matthebula?

If Vazquez Jr. and Mathebula are some of the best in and around that division? If so, its a piss poor division and Rigo needs to man up and move up. Clearly he's way too good for that division, and he's too boring for anyone to care to watch him put on clinics against lesser competition.


He's been saying the same things after all his fights few fights, expect Nishioka. He struggled with Mathebula, Vazquez, and Narvaez, and his excuse afterwards was "I didn't listen to my corner, I didn't jab, I wanted to land a big punch, etc. etc. etc..."

Like I said, Rigo may have been the nail in the coffin, but whatever distracted him outside the ring prior to the fight has been there a while... The flaws were there before the Rigo fight



Lol, I think your over emotional response caused u to forget what I was saying... I'm not arguing whether Rigo took his soul, what I'm arguing is whether Rigo taking his soul is such a great accomplishment... How does "Rigo is overrated" connect to the soul taking discussion?

All I'm saying is, Rigo is good, but is he as good as beating Donaire made him look? Donaire was clearly overrated, so how does Rigo get all this credit for beating him? (Becuz he was the underdog... )

Like I said, Rigo needs to move up in weight and fight some other "special" fighter like Mikey Garcia before I can say he's this p4p future ATG every thinks he is

first thing...........donaire didn't struggle with vasquez jr. (he out boxed him knocked him down & beat him easily..........don't be confused by the idiot split decision. go back and actually watch that fight) the fight was close after 7 rounds with mathebula but thats only because mathebula is a high volume puncher.......

"he's been saying the same thing after all of his fights"

now this my friend is a flat out lie............when has donaire ever said that he doesn't know if he want to box anymore? questioning his ability to take a punch? saying he was thinking about QUITTING In the ring? when? being a critic of your own performances (saying that he didin't listen to his corner enough) is not the same thing as questioning should you carry on in a fight......the guy was questioning if he should quit for goodness sakes. he got his soul taken against rigo........it's too obvious.



& lol @ rigo should move up to 130 and fight mickey garcia whooooooooohahahahahaha

i wouldn't doubt that rigo would make garcia his b*tch in less then 4 rounds but rigo is a small short little guy. if rigos division is weak mickeys division is absolute trash........(rigo will be fighting agbecko in his next fight. a better fighter then anything garcias has ever faced in his entire career) mickey in realty is a natural 140 pounder draining himself down to 130 rigo is a natural 122 pounder.

fool said he wants rigo to move up and fight mickey garcia (a mickey who's a natural jr. welterweight & draining himself down)

[Humean]

Darchinyan had only been stopped once before and that was by Donaire and he has fought fighters of the quality of Yamanaka, Moreno, Mares, Agbeko, Arce and Mijares. So yeah he really failed to impress......

[285Kid]

Last night has nothing too do with Rigo, and once Nicholas Walters or Evgeny Gradovich put an end too Donaire it won't be because of Rigo

[JDezi4]

No offense but you can't say Donaire was overrated from the start, he was favored to beat Rigo by most journalists and experts, and was picked to win on here by most people

Rigo put Donaire in time-out to ponder how good he really is

Its a common misconception that just becuz someone is an underdog, that means when they win they've done something great. Its just another inconsistency with boxing fans that makes us the worst sports fans in the world.

Lucas Matthysse is an overrated hypejob, but then when Garcia beats him (and barely I might add) he's the heir to the Mayweather thrown??? Where's the logic in that?

Same with Donaire... He won the fighter of the year award, was top 3 p4p, was expected to be Pacquiao's replacement... Rigo only had like 10 fights and wasn't really well known... Who's gonna be the underdog in that situation?

[-MAKAVELLI-]

he's a shell of himself...i hope he saved his money...time to move on...if you can't give 100%, you can seriously get hurt in this sport