http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4301401 R.I.P great one. The sport had lost one of its all-time greats, and flyweight titleholder Nonito Donaire had lost one of his heroes. Donaire is a huge fan of Arguello. "When I found out, I was kind of sad. I mean, that's Arguello," Donaire told me over the phone from Las Vegas, only hours after the announcement of Arguello's untimely death. "He was a gentleman of the game. One thing I learned from him was to be a gentleman." Donaire (21-1, 14 KOs), born in the Philippines and living in California, was in Las Vegas for a news conference to formally announce Top Rank's "Pinoy Power 2" pay-per-view card on Aug. 15 at the Hard Rock. In the main event, Donaire will face Panama's Rafael Concepcion (13-3-1, 8 KOs) for a vacant interim junior bantamweight title. Donaire currently holds a flyweight title, which he won with a spectacular fifth-round knockout of Vic Darchinyan in 2007, but he is on the verge of giving it up in order to move up to junior bantamweight, where he contested many of his fights before beating Darchinyan for the title. Although we discussed his upcoming fight, Donaire really wanted to talk about Arguello. He said he was "crushed" by his death. Donaire's father and uncle were serious Arguello fans, and it rubbed off on him as a kid. Now he has a collection of Arguello fights that he watches regularly. "Every one of his big fights," Donaire said proudly, adding that he also has collections of fights of other "old-school fighters," such as Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran. "My father and uncle were big fans of Arguello," Donaire said. "When I was in the process of learning to throw the hook, my dad would show me Arguello's moves. He throws his hook at an angle, almost like an uppercut, and that's how I throw my hook, because of Arguello. My dad taught it to me that way." It was that left hook that knocked out Darchinyan in Donaire's biggest victory. "We watched Arguello on tape and we would go over it," Donaire said. "I remember being very young, maybe 11 or 12, and my dad saying, 'This is how Arguello throws his hook.'" Donaire never had a chance to meet Arguello, "but I was a big fan. I felt so sad when I heard he had died. He's not only a great fighter. I got a lot of things from him. He was a gentleman, and that always stuck with me. That's what I always try to be. He was just an incredible fighter. Rest in peace, Arguello."
the footage of him running through the desert in is red sweatsuit is Palm Springs where he would train at a tent beside the Canyon Hotel
