How is Donaire ahead of Williams, Haye, Dawson etc?

[Quinito]

Yep. Gary Shaw was not really doing a good job promoting Donaire. It was negligence on his part. It had nothing to do with Donaire being disloyal.

[Quinito]

I think Shaw started disliking Flip boxers after the Darchinyan-Gorres fight in Cebu. That was wild.

[ElTerribleMorales]

give me a break, Donaire is no Paul Williams, in terms of being highly avoided

he's happy keeping his little trinket, could have easily jumped weight when Montiel said that he wanted to fight him, but well he decided to settle with Martinez

[Violent Demise]

my friend, on that note: nobody's to blame here really but donaire's former promoter gary shaw. donaire could have fought kirilov, mijares or arce, but shaw chose the guy nonito dominated over. isn't that a little bit surprising? for me as a donaire fan: that's also disappointing. that's called mismanagement if not betrayal. i don't care whatever issues they had against each other but i feel bad for nonito, really.

nonito could have a better resume than what he have now if these fighters answered to his challenge:

carita lopez, mijares, arce, montiel, darchinyan..

but for some reason those fights didn't pushed through.

Yep. Gary Shaw was not really doing a good job promoting Donaire. It was negligence on his part. It had nothing to do with Donaire being disloyal.

Are you guys fukking kidding me? It had everything to do with being disloyal. Shaw made Donaire. And Donaire stabbed him in the back. Shaw gave Donaire his first title shot when he was undeserving and had less than 20 career fights. A main event fight on ShowTime. 4 months later Donaire is back on Show Time defending his title for the first time against Luis Maldonado. His fight was no suppose to be telivised. But Shaw convinced Show Time to show it. I don't know about you. But back to back title fights on ShowTime in 4 months is pretty fukking good expourse. Shaw had big plans for Donaire. But nothing came about. Donaire convinced himself he was a Super Star and thought he was owed everything. Donaire insane demands killed everything. Shaw did his best to try and accommodate Donaire and his outrageous demands. But still no fights could be made. Donaire blamed Shaw. What Donaire failed to realize was that eventhough he beat Darchinyan he was still unknown to everybody but Boxing junkies.

Now that Donaire is no longer with Shaw has his expourse gotten better? Let's see. His last fight was in the Philippines against a decent opponent for chump change. The fight wasn't shown by any of the networks that show Boxing. Under Shaw, Donaire-Martinez would of been on ShowTime or HBO.