Why did Inoue Struggle with Donaire?

[_Rexy_]

Donaire was shot to bits too and Inoue still went life and death with him.

Was he shot to bits when he retired Burnett too?

[IceTrayDaGang]

i just watched the fight and i can say that donaire is shot to shiiet.. his punches are slow. and inoue is not all that good. he was taking a beating from donaire as well.

[ruedboy]

Donaire was the bigger fighter. I thought Donaire was gonna get blown away but coming down in weight helped him tremendously. had this fight taken place with the 2009 Donaire, he easily ko's Inoue.

Agree. Donaire looked liked the bigger guy and I think it bothered Inoue. Credit to both guys, it was a great fight.

[LZBoxing]

Inoue has a fractured eye socket and fractures behind the nose


Had double vision since round 2 supposedly

[garfios]

He can fight another old man in Rigondeaux, i heard he is moving down to 118

[_Maxi]

Donaire was bigger than him. And he didn't "struggle". He won a war, but he won. And Donaire actually was KOed in 11 but ref helped.

[_Rexy_]

I'd be curious to hear the weights before the fight.

[SplitSecond]

I want to rewatch this but i saw Inoue clearly winning most rds, albiet rd’s he took some punches. The main struggle i saw was mainly Donaire’s power.

[TheGR8TESTOAT]

Donaire was bigger than him. And he didn't "struggle". He won a war, but he won. And Donaire actually was KOed in 11 but ref helped.

Man that ref was suspect!

I mean first off if you run away from our opponent like ND did some refs have waived off fights and took it as so. So the ref could have waived off the fight on ND running away like he did if we being technical.

Then it looked like the ref didnt even start counting until a good 6 second head start into the knee. He like walked over to ND mad slow and then like took his sweet time to even begin counting and then once he started counting you can argue that he already reached 10 at that point as well.

Also by the time ND stood up it was already like 12 to 16 seconds of counting and I thought the ref was gonna waive it off but he gave ND the chance to fight on. Like WTF? did the ref have the bet on it will go 12 rounds or something?