Rigondeaux labels Donaire 'The Filipino Phony'

[WelshDevilRob]

Rigondeaux labels Donaire 'The Filipino Phony'

 

CORK, Ireland (July 11, 2012) - A frustrated World Boxing Association ("WBA") Super Bantamweight Champion Guillermo "El Chacal" Rigondeaux (10-0, 8 KOs), upon learning that Nonito Donaire plans to move up to the featherweight division after his next fight, has labeled Donaire, "The Filipino Phony."

 

"Donaire is running scared of any super bantamweights with power," Rigondeaux said from his Miami training camp. "He hasn't knocked out anybody at 122 pounds. One thing is for sure, though, he will get knocked out if he has the guts to fight me."

 

Rigondeaux trained at Wild Card Gym with one of his favorite fighters, Manny Pacquiao, who may be wondering at this point exactly why his fellow countryman, Donaire, doesn't fight Rigondeaux to determine the contemporary King of the Super Bantamweights.

 

"Manny fought the best fighters around when he was moving up through weight classes but this phony, Donaire, is disappointing fans all over the world, especially Filipino people, by running scared from the best fighter at 122 pounds," Rigondeaux continued. "I competed against more than 250 amateur boxers from every continent and none of those guys were paid to fight me. 'The Filipino Phony' will be paid a king's ransom to fight me, but he's scared enough to move up to 126 just to avoid fighting me. The problem he faces, though, is I will also move up to featherweight once I've cleaned out the super bantamweight division. What's he going to do then, move up to super featherweight?"

 

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[iamasadlittleboy]

Donaire's his own worst enemy. He has opportunities to prove he's great at 118 (Moreno, Mares) and instead faces Narvaez and runs off to 122. He has chances to prove he's great at 122 but instead faces the recently defeated Vazquez Jr, the under-rated Mathebula and then the beyond his best Arce (if the rumours are to be believed) rather than Rigo, Mares or Nishioka.

 

The problems are more than just his opponents though, he actually looks more and more limited every time I see him-No jab, no serious body work, no way of forcing open an opponent, looking only for a home run punch. If you can avoid his left hook he looks incredibly beatable.

[Meathead]

Hes gone from being a monster further down the weights to being an average Boxer higher up the weights.

 

I am a big admirer of Rigondeaux and think he would handle Donaire pretty easily, sadly we may never find out.

[brooklynbrawler]

Donaire is pretty mediocre at THIS weightclass, without moving up and looking worse still.

Stupid move and will be the undoing of him imo.

[WelshDevilRob]

Rigondeaux vs Donaire is a fight that I'd love to see but it could be a long way off.