Donaire: ''He wasn't better then me tonight'' ''He didn't do enough to beat me''

Punchstats don't really tell the full story of a contest, but he did lose the fight convincingly

 

thats correct too.

 

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Those fights were dominations in their own sense, yes, but you can skin a cat more ways than one. Rigo skinned his via a chess match - something Donaire himself opted to engage in. Rigo's countering was superior. Rigo's defense was sharper. Rigo's punches were more accurate. Rigo just generally looked far more comfortable and in control. All of his rounds (9 at the absolute very least if you're being generous to Donaire) were clear-cut rounds in which he didn't allow Donaire to do anything meaningful.

That, in my eyes, is a schooling.

 

Im most definitely no expert on scoring but was amazed when the HBO team said that a lot of the press had it a close fight. Thought Rigo dominated the fight and Donaire only really had success when Rigo decided to take the round off.

Donaire seemed lethargic, think he expected to just blow rigo away.

 

It was a schooling, if Donaire didnt get that knockdown it woulda probably been a Rigo round, which means 11-1 but i gave it 10-2 when that 2nd round i shoulda really gave to Rigo
No way Donaire landed 89 punches thats fake

 

cant believe these posts....a schooling is has already been described in this thread....rigo won well on points but that was no schooling or domination.

would you people who say it was a schooling consider winning 8/9/10 rounds of a 12 round fight automatically a schooling ??

 

If you win 9 or 10 rounds clearly whilst displaying full superiority in the type of fight it's being fought at (a counter-punching chess match), then yes, I would regard that as a schooling. Especially if those 2 or 3 rounds that you lost -- bar the knockdown one -- are rounds that could have gone either way.

 

ok...each to their own....but it was not a schooling or domination for me......although rigo won well.

 

Yeah but what does the term dominate mean to you?

 

Doug, a schooling to me isnt a beating as has been suggested - but a mind **** on your opponent.

Nonito look baffled by what was before him. He simply didnt know what to do. Couple that with him being read by Rigo and countered would leave me to believe that Donire left the ring no wiser than when he entered it.

 

Yeah, it depends on what you like to see, really. Which is why Donaire at the moment doesn't feel like he's lost. In his eyes Rigo was probably being too negative and he doesn't feel like someone has just beaten him. Probably feels pick-pocketed, more than anything.

 

To me, it means to be in complete control of something to the point where the opponent's chances of altering things, is very low. And you can be in control in many ways more than one - overpowering, outworking, outsmarting, etc. Rigo, in my eyes, done the latter.

 

I guess there are better words to use than 'dominate' - which gives the impression of ruthlessness, overpowering, and bullying. So yes, Rigo didn't do that. So I suppose a more appropriate word would be, I don't know :think, 'schooling'?

:good

 

Been listening to bad advice probably. His corner felt is was 50/50 and anyone on the Top Rank payroll probably told him he should have got the nod.