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SLUMBER TIME: Guillermo Rigondeaux W12 Nonito Donaire

Jimmy Tobin — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:59:14 +0000

**** I took you home Set you on the glass I pulled off your wings Then I laughed -Deftones, Change (In the House of Flies) In “Culture and Value,” Ludwig Wittgenstein warns: “Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your [...]

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Yes, We Have No Bananas: Nonito Donaire-Guillermo Rigondeaux Preview

Carlos Acevedo — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:01:13 +0000

**** The last–and only—prizefight extravaganza held at Radio City Music Hall, topped by Roy Jones, Jr., in 2000, was notable chiefly for its many oddities, including a parallel universe undercard. Derrick Jefferson wore himself out belaboring David Izon, and, thus, fell victim to the dreaded TKO VIA EXHAUSTION; Brian “The Bull” Barbosa bowled over a [...]

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GETTING OVER: Nonito Donaire KO3 Jorge Arce

Jimmy Tobin — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:14:36 +0000

**** Christmas came early to The Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, as Top Rank rewarded Nonito Donaire with a cakewalk against former flyweight rascal Jorge Arce. To the surprise of no one, Donaire flattened Arce in the third round of a fight that was more spectacle than spectacular. Donaire, San Leandro, California, had already notched [...]

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SMALL TIME: Nonito Donaire-Jorge Arce Preview

Michael Nelson — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:26:21 +0000

**** It has been a while since Nonito Donaire has done anything particularly thrilling in the ring. Specifically, it’s been 22 months, when he devastated Fernando Montiel with a counter left hook within two rounds. Saturday night, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, his friend Jorge Arce will serve as the perfect partner to [...]

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In the Shadows: Abner Mares, Anselmo Moreno, and Nonito Donaire

Carlos Acevedo — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:48:45 +0000

**** With Nonito Donaire out of the picture because of the monkeyshines played by fight game overlords—promoters and networks—Abner Mares and Anselmo Moreno face off tomorrow night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, in a matchup of topnotch junior featherweights. Fights between bantamweight and featherweight ought to be easier to make since there [...]

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The Uncertainty Principle: Nonito Donaire Squares off Against Toshiaki Nishioka

Michael Nelson — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:40:33 +0000

**** When Nonito Donaire knocked out Fernando Montiel in the second round of their February 2011 bout, it appeared as if his potential met his preeminent talent and unquestioned dominance was in his immediate future. But over his next three fights, two of them in a new division, that dominance was put into question. Toshiaki [...]

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AFTERMATH: Nonito Donaire-Jeffrey Mathebula, Kell Brook-Carson Jones, Wladimir Klitschko-Tony Thompson

Michael Nelson — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:07:39 +0000

**** Nonito Donaire etched another win over tough opposition at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California Saturday night. But like his first foray into super bantamweight, against Wilfredo Vazquez, he had his struggles along the way. Donaire won a decision over South African Jeffrey Mathebula by scores of 119-108, 117-110, 118-109 in a bout [...]

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SUPERUNKNOWN: Nonito Donaire-Jeffrey Mathebula Preview

Carlos Acevedo — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:33:41 +0000

**** Dynamic Nonito Donaire faces a Mary Celeste-like mystery in the ring tomorrow night when he faces unknown quantity Jeffrey Mathebula at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, in a scheduled 12. According to The Omniscients, titles and belts are meaningless (unless, of course, they have the imprimatur of Golden Boy employees), but few [...]

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AFTERMATH: Donaire-Vazquez Jr., Chavez, Jr.-Rubio, Hernandez-Cunningham, Gutknecht-Uzelkov

Carlos Acevedo — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:19:22 +0000

**** Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. pounded out a unanimous decision over game but outgunned Marco Antonio Rubio at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Chavez Jr., now 45-0-1-1(31) has so obsessed fringe media members and their doppelgangers—forum beasts—that there is almost no point in bothering to read anything about him any longer. Over the last [...]

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Hard Sell: Nonito Donaire-Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. Preview

Michael Nelson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:21:20 +0000

Tomorrow night at the Almamodome in San Antonio, Texas, Nonito Donaire, 27-1, dips his toe into the junior featherweight division when he faces Puerto Rican banger Wilfredo Vazquez. Jr. Donaire looks to bounce back from an uninspiring unanimous decision over Omar Andres Narvaez three and a half months ago, while Vazquez Jr., 27-1 with 18 [...]

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