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by David P. Greisman - The sky isn’t falling.
You’d think the truth to be otherwise, given some of the reaction following Nonito Donaire’s rematch win over Vic Darchinyan this past Saturday. You’d read some of the responses and believe there to be just cause for Chicken Little-style panic.
The sky isn’t falling, but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be cause for concern in Donaire’s camp. Changes are needed. And it was Donaire’s victory against Darchinyan that accentuated this truth far more than Donaire’s loss to Guillermo Rigondeaux did this past April.
We’re fickle folk, us boxing fans, us observers whose opinions veer to the extreme and rarely fall in-between. Perhaps that’s understandable in a sport that concludes with polar opposites, with a winner and a loser. Yet there are shades of gray. Not all losses are created equal. Nor are all wins.
That is why Manny Pacquiao will soon headline another major pay-per-view in his first fight back following last year’s winless campaign, when he lost a highly controversial split decision to Timothy Bradley and then was on the receiving end of Juan Manuel Marquez’s dramatic one-punch knockout.
It is why Ruslan Provodnikov can look back on his 2013 and recognize that his one win and one loss were both good for him. And it is why Gabriel Rosado can look toward 2014 and believe that he can build on a year in which he went 0-2 with a third defeat overturned into a “no decision.” [Click Here To Read More]
You’d think the truth to be otherwise, given some of the reaction following Nonito Donaire’s rematch win over Vic Darchinyan this past Saturday. You’d read some of the responses and believe there to be just cause for Chicken Little-style panic.
The sky isn’t falling, but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be cause for concern in Donaire’s camp. Changes are needed. And it was Donaire’s victory against Darchinyan that accentuated this truth far more than Donaire’s loss to Guillermo Rigondeaux did this past April.
We’re fickle folk, us boxing fans, us observers whose opinions veer to the extreme and rarely fall in-between. Perhaps that’s understandable in a sport that concludes with polar opposites, with a winner and a loser. Yet there are shades of gray. Not all losses are created equal. Nor are all wins.
That is why Manny Pacquiao will soon headline another major pay-per-view in his first fight back following last year’s winless campaign, when he lost a highly controversial split decision to Timothy Bradley and then was on the receiving end of Juan Manuel Marquez’s dramatic one-punch knockout.
It is why Ruslan Provodnikov can look back on his 2013 and recognize that his one win and one loss were both good for him. And it is why Gabriel Rosado can look toward 2014 and believe that he can build on a year in which he went 0-2 with a third defeat overturned into a “no decision.” [Click Here To Read More]
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