Nonito Donaire named fighter of the year by ESPN

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Well deserved and congrats to Nonito.

 

A proper pick.

 

Add Boxing Seen. They just said it was a no brainer basically.

 

There should be no question about that

 

Why not Sonny Boy Jaro then, the odds were much wider? Why did Pac, Ward or Floyd win theirs, they didn't have to beat the odds?

 

Correct on both counts. Pac probably should have won it had he koed JMM, but strange thing is, the Bradley robbery was counted against him. For example, Rafael dropped him to #4 p4p before JMM 4, after having scored Pac Bradley 119-109. If he was being consistent, it was the best win of the year anyone had had at the time, if anything a p4p boost.

 

Nobody said that about espn, that was vs Ring rankings.

 

Would have gave it to marquez. Donaire isn't a bad pick.

 

Great list. 'Good job' to the guys over at ESPN.

 

Noone held the decision against him.

What was apparent though is he has lost a step from his glory days of Hatton and cotto.

Meanwhile Floyd outpunched the bigger cotto, ward dominated Dawson, Martinez won 11 and half rounds against Chavez and donaire went on his great 4 fight run.

Pac hasn't looked top of the tree since clottey whilst the others are still seemingly getting better.

 

I agree, Donaire has been fighting on the regular. He deserves it!

 

Good call. :good

 

Of all those guys you listed Bradley was the highest rated p4p. According to most, Pac beat him dominantly. According to Rafael, 11-1 in rounds. So at best it was bad timing on the demotion. If the intent was to "punish" him for JMM 3 (cause lets face it, it was the first time he struggled since JMM 2), then he should have dropped him then, and bumped him up for Bradley. But note that Rafael didn't even have JMM winning the 3rd.

 

probably deserving. JMM had the big win, but Donaire has had a great few fights.