Donaire Should Get A New Trainer

To be honest, while Garcia doesn't overly impress me, I think the problem lies more with Donaire's tendencies as a fighter. When he knows an opponent can't hurt him, his sense of urgency disappears, and he looks for one-shot counters and leads. I get what you're saying about Garcia's lack of authoritative advice, but I don't know if a change of trainer is what suits the situation. Then again, that might just be my personal uneasiness about taking a fighter out of his comfort zone whenever a technical or mental flaw arises. But your own recommendations I feel would definitely have helped him have success as an aggressor.

 

true. It's the fighter's fight inside the ring. All the trainer's advice are mostly in the gym.

 

:yep

 

why dont you suck his dick already

 

Well, from what I've seen of Donaire and Garcia's personalities, I think they'll go back to the drawing board and at least try to improve upon what they know was a sub-par performance.

 

garcias probably not making much from nonito i get the feeling. coming in last minute probably for a fee not as big as we think

 

It was ridiculous to hear that they mostly talked over the phone, that's just stupid. I put a lot of that on Donaire for not coming into camp and making the effort to show up, Garcia's always in the gym he's not going anywhere, but it's also on Garcia to tell Donaire that he needs to come in and train seriously.

They were both delusional about how close the fight was, and I do agree he should have emphasized pressing for a knockout, but at the same time I think they both knew by the end that they had definitely lost without question.

Garcia's instructions lacked urgency but were accurate. There was nothing much you could tell Donaire to do but throw more than one damn punch at a time. His combination punching needs serious work, it's almost non-existent. Some of the only times he actually caught Rigo was when he threw two or 3 punches at a time. Lampley said it best, "he needs to overwhelm Rigondeaux." But he's just too stuck in his counter-puncher mold and fought someone who could perfectly exploit that.

 

Personally I thought Donaire was getting out of his bad habits fight by fight. Against Nishioka he was more patient and threw more than one punch at a time than he did against Mathebula. But Rigo was making him pay for his shots in a way that Donaire has never seen before, he's never fought someone as fast as him. That's where the timidity came in. It's not something Donaire just has, he's never been special on the front foot but he's not outright timid, even after the KO Donaire knew he couldn't afford to let go because he was paying dearly for any misstep he took.

 

Do you guys know if the phone training was anomalous for this fight? As I understood it, Donaire almost always spends most of his camps away from Garcia and largely trains himself; this is why I thought it was a bit ridiculous when Garcia would often be significantly credited with Donaire's success and why it's problematic to blame him too much for last night as well.

Don't get me wrong, that arrangement is far from optimal and I agree with the general sentiment that Donaire could benefit from a new trainer, but I don't believe being away from camp is an adequate reason for what transpired last night.

Edit: I also agree with Bogotazo's response on Donaire's bad habits above. At the same time I think I may have overestimated his improvements in that regard and perhaps bought into Donaire's own talk about "getting back to his roots" after seeing Ward beat Dawson.

 

Nonito had a considerable size advantage on many of his past opponents that's where his advantage is not in any superhuman boxing ability. In fact I would like to see Nonito vs Juanma

 

He started off alright, though he could have done with more jabs. Relied too much on power. He was fighting like Brandon Rios, wtf, the guy has a huge reach advantage.