Hasegawa vs Donaire

Of course, great fight.

I think Donaire UD's him wide and knocks him down in the process

but i've watched some Hasegawa recently and he is a good fighter.

this would be one for the purists

 

Heard of Hasegawa but how is he as a fighter? His style? His strengths? Any weaknesses?

I know Donaire but if he is going to scale up to a higher division, he ought to ensure he will bring the power of his money punch and develop a more varied offense and just don't need to rely on his left as if it is the only way in the universe to hurt his opponents.

 

I'd take Hasegawa, but it's a great fight.

 

Hasegawa, competitive fight, but a clear decision.

 

Actually before the Darchinyan fight donaire was known for his right hand. Don't listen to the commentators too much though man if you watch the Martinez fight you will see he used his right hand alot

In fact the first punch that hurt Martinez was a counter right hand over the top


Hasegawa is a tall stand up southpaw. He likes to use range and throws alot of light jabs to establish his distance. Then he gets off 1, 2 or 3 punch combinations and moves away and gets back to establishing range with his jab. He has a nice variety to his offense and can lead to the body or head with jabs or powerpunches. He can counterpunch a little bit too but its clearly not his strength. His power is not amazing... he doesn't have heavy hands but if he gets you at the end of his combinations he can definately hurt you because his technique is good..

 

Hasegawa is a great technical fighter who showed impressive handspeed and excellent two handed power lately, which is a lethal combo. Donaire is more textbook type but also combines speed, cracking power and skills to be a threat even at bantamweight.

HOWEVER! Before jumping on conclusions how Donaire's power would definitely trouble the likes of Agbeko or Hozumi, let's just talk about divisions.

Donaire is a big guy for a Flyweight, probably a natural SFW/BW who brings his physical advantages very well vs. smaller framed fighters, but that advantage would go away 2 divisions higher. Look at Darchinyan: he showed great power even at Super Flyweight, but it wasn't enough at BW vs. Agbeko, and without the power, he wasn't very effective.

We don't even know how much power Donaire would bring to SFW (probably a lot), but Hasegawa fights even one more division higher and delivers much shorter fights and more impressive knockouts vs. legit full size bantamweight opposition lately. So power vs. power, I'd most definitely favor Hasegawa. Skill vs. skill, it's fairly even, but we just don't know whether the skills are enough for Nonito if the power and physical advantages don't come with it. Also, I think Hasegawa is just as quick as Nonito, who's a very fast fighter.

It's an interesting clash of styles, and 2 divisions higher than Donaire's current weight, Hasegawa should be favored. This match-up should happen somewhere down the road, and maybe it will, in the meantime both should grab a LEGIT P4P position (Montiel-Donaire, Hasegawa-Agbeko would be an excellent lead up to the big one), then fight each other.

 

Really smooth operater with excellent hand & foot speed, accuracy, and ring generalship. He's become a serious puncher recently too.

This is him against Vusi Malinga earlier this year.

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It's definatley a fight I'd pay to watch.

 

yea he is on a nice KO streak but check his record his knockout ratio is well below 50%

 

From that last video it looks as though at well-timed left hook would work wonders over that lazy jab

 

Good match-up. I favour Donaire though by close UD/ late TKO.

I believe Donaire has the better speed and at least equal power. He would need to focus on winning rounds rather than KO'ing Hasegawa