Comments Thread For: Photos: Naoya Inoue, Nonito Donaire - Face To Face, Final Presser

[tatot]

Rooting for my man Donaire hopefully he pulls it off. War
Nonito!

[PittyPat]

Donaire and Pacquiao were world champions in 2007. Here we still are.

[Idiot Detector]

Sat night

Do you mean Sat night in the U S? Or Saturday in Japan?
Lol they would never move this for U S tv. Over 20k will be there live plus the whole country watching on tv. They would care less of any US audience. If you meant Sat night in Japan please enlighten us on what happens there on Saturdays that make you think it would be prime time?

[SinderellaMan]

I'm surprised at how much bigger Donaire is

[Citizen Koba]

Right on , I will still be watching. But Inoue is a monster thought he deserved the bigger audience that would have came with a primetime SAT time slot.

It'd have to be JST or Phillipines Standard Time whichever day it came on I guess, the two fighters are bona fide superstars in their respective countries and that's something like a combined 230 million people... they'll get viewing figures that would put us to shame in the UK or US I'm guessing.

As to why Thursday I ain't sure, I think Friday fights from Japan are fairly common but I don't recall many on Thursday so I was curious enough to check and it's just speculation but they do seem to be pushing towards a 4 day working week so maybe that's something to do with it - or hell, maybe they just do things different in the Land of the Rising Sun and just figure the day won't make much difference to viewership...

Either way, like you say, it's a must see... luckily it'll fall around lunchtime here and I should be able to catch it without too many problems.

[kidaguilar]

Donaire will have to paint a masterpiece in order to defeat the monster. That left hook will have to land at will.

[IceTrayDaGang]

the size different is there... i got donaire beating the japanese guy. donaire usually dominates smaller fighters and this guy aint no rigo.

[olivetree66]

the size different is there... i got donaire beating the japanese guy. donaire usually dominates smaller fighters and this guy aint no rigo.

LMAO donaire is washed. He’s gonna get destroyed, casual 😂

[KING MEAT]

donaires gonna get stopped.

[ralex]

Why does donaire still have that dumb ass soul patch