Guillermo Rigondeaux defeated Nonito Donaire Convincingly
Guillermo Rigondeaux retained his WBA super bantamweight championship and added the WBO super bantamweight belt, unanimously outpointing Nonito Donaire on Saturday night at Radio City Music Hall.
Rigondeaux improved to 12-0, receiving winning scores of 114-113, 115-112 and 116-111 in the unification bout. He failed to knock out an opponent for only the fourth time since turning pro, but overcame being knocked down twice in the opening minute of the 10th round in a performance that had some booing the lack of action.
“As I told you before, I would do my job and I did,” Rigondeaux said through an interpreter. “I made him look bad. You can’t win by landing one shot.”
“I apologize,” Donaire said. “I wanted to deliver. During the last two rounds, I got stupid. I didn’t do my job. I didn’t use my jab and go to my left. I have no excuse. He beat me tonight. I gave it all I got. I never studied the fight and I should have.”More info.
After a win over a fighter of Donaire’s caliber, where does Rigondeaux go from here? He’s been called boring to watch, so he’ll be hard to sell on an entertainment factor, so I’m curious if he will be another fighter that wins, but gets a worst fight next time out than the fighter he defeated. We shall see, but one thing is for sure, Guillermo Rigondeaux defeated Nonito Donaire.
