Nonito Donaire vs. Jeffrey Mathebula - Saturday night fight thread

Best 2 minutes of the fight for Mathebula right there...not pretty but he just literally slapped boxed and spun the shit outta Donaire.

I'm no huge fan of Donaire but he is far more capable than this if he would just stop reading the headlines. Stop thinking KO :p

Did Donaire throw his boxing skills out the window tonight? :headscratch:

He's just looking for that one shot.

IMO Mathebula's taken the last 3 rounds, and sorry but Garcia always gives his fighter's the worst advice, "he's not doing anything" really? he's outpunching Donaire and landing some good shots

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Originally Posted by Diane

Did Donaire throw his boxing skills out the window tonight? :headscratch:

He's just looking for that one shot.

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I think he did that afteer the montiel fight he's looked like this the past few fights

Mathebula has been outworking Donaire, I've got the fight even after 11, but Donaire up by a point or 2 because of the KD in the 4th round

So heres the Ortiz situation..."something broke in Mathebulas face", spitting blood. His jaw is fucked here in 12th but he gets up off stool. Jeff needs this round huge

Another split decision coming.

scores are a fucking joke

That have got to be the blindest judges ever seems like we got candidates for those every week

Wow... big difference from Nevada Judges.

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Originally Posted by armin

That have got to be the blindest judges ever seems like we got candidates for those every week

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I thought Donaire barely squeezed out the decision, no fucking way there was a 118 or 119 score

Donaire will get this call, deserved... but he must forget all that 5 plus division superman bullshit. He looked a bit flat and phat Fat that last half and cards were too generous.

I had Donaire winning by a couple rounds, something like 116-112.

Not a bad fight, tough one for Donaire, much closer then what the judges had it.

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Originally Posted by Spicoli

Donaire will get this call, deserved... but he must forget all that 5 plus division superman bullshit. He looked a bit flat and phat that last half and cards were too generous.

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My thinking must be wrong.... I'm thinking now this must be a US fighter vs a foreign fighter on US venu. Don't really make much sense otherwise.

The scores were way too wide. They did a disservice to Mathebula, who deserved better. I would cut Nonito some slack also. He didn't abandon his boxing skills. He was trying to figure out a way into Mathebula all night, which ain't easy. It's not like Mathebula was just standing there inviting Nonito to come in. Nonito ate a lot of shots, and a lot of the lunging was necessary just to try to connect. Kellerman did nail it on the head (or was it Roy?) about Nonito not jabbing enough. When Nonito started jabbing he had better luck connecting combinations.