Nonito Donaire vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux :Poll

Donaire has the look of someone who relies on single shots too much and might get schooled by a very good cautious technical fighter.He's a basic fighter who relies on superior physical attributes and an elite basic punch(the left hook) and doesn't ask too much of his good natural timing with particularly technical boxing or combinations.

However Guillermo is nothing at all special when he sticks and moves or fights off the back foot for a sustained period of time though, or at least hasn't shown it so far.His offence becomes very fragmented and feeble looking when he does so.

I think he has to hurt or get Donaire's respect early with some nice heavy counters.Then he has a greater chance to use his superior technique and footwork as a comfort zone.HIs chin is suspect to me, though as far as him keeping that sort of ring centre fight up for a whole 12, and i'm not sure he's quite skilled enough to do it without having to take some big shots.

I'd favour Donaire's advantage in range, single shot speed(quite close) and power to be enough for him.Don't think he'll look too good though.

 

Donaire wins, I have doubts about Rigo's chin

 

I think Donaire cracks that shaky chin, honestly.

It'll be a good one while it lasts.

 

believe me I'm serious :yep Donaire will ko that glass jaw cuban

 

WTF? Didn't you get the memo? Toshiaki Nishioka was an old washed up and over rated nobody while Robert Marroquin is #2 p4p right behind Rigo. atsch

The Cubans would never lie because Fidel told them it was a sin. :-(

 

Yeah, I don't care how 'effective' people here seem to judge it, fighting off the back foot and countering ain't buying you a lot of love with most judges today. If you fight like you want it to go to a judges decision don't whine when it doesn't go your way.

 

Donaire KO1 Rigonglass

 

Good post

 

Donaire has been in with much much better fighters than Rigondeaux. Rigondeaux has many holes in his defense. When he throws his left jab he always leaves himself open. His usual approach is to stay on the outside. As he has inside game is redundant. He throws slaps with his right hand. If you listen to his right hook they're slaps.


His inside game is atrocious and gets tagged a lot. He has to use his right hand as a measuring stick for his left hand counter or straight. He always leaves his left hand down whenever he does this. He always leaves himself open to the counter.

His right hand is a slap and he doesn't turn his punches over. He often telegraphs his punches and misses intentionally to gauge the length between him and his opponent.

He often leaves himself open when he does this with a stronger puncher who wants to hit back and win will hurt him. When he fought Rico Ramos. Ramos didn't want to even be there. Ramos was catching him but if he wasn't so hesitant to throw it would have been a different fight.

The Ricardo Cordoba Split Decision win victory for Rigondeaux was a decent scalp. Rigondeaux looked fairly decent for 6 rounds but then started to go on his bicycle and was often get hit by flurries and combos on the inside by Cordoba. Rigondeaux was being chased and the crowd were booing. He was running on the outside trying to come in and out looking to catch his opponent with combos.

He did this but he often leaves his guard down when he tries to throw his hard left hand. Thus leaving himself open to counters from a right and left hand.




Nonito sees this coming and knocks him out. He'll neutralize Rigondeaux's left hand.

 

I honestly believe this fight will last less than 5 rounds.

 

And Rigo becomes an overrated can and "midget Audley Harrison" after Donaire decapitates him.

 

either way,this is the best figjt in years..probably since morales mab

 

Nonito's the real deal, plain and simple. He even does the VADA testing. What a class act. This guy deserves to get paiddddd

 

left hook to the chin drops him in round 4

 

No idea.May the best boxer win. Hoping it lives up to the billing and fans get their monies worth. Explosive action etc.