Nonito "The Filipino Flash" Donaire(32-2-0(21 KO) stopped Armenian Vic "Raging Bull" Darchinyan on the round 9 last Saturday night in American Bank Center, USA. It was second time Vic was stopped, and both times he was stopped by Nonito, and both times with a perfect left hook. While the punch was perfect by itself I wouldn't call Nonitos performance perfect. I even wouldn't call it a good performance. I mean I saw this fight as a draw on the moment of stoppage and I was even generous for Nonito. Only one judge saw it as a draw, other two had Darchinyan winning 6 of 8 rounds. I understand that it was a come back fight after a loss, also Donaire has a newborn son, so maybe he has less time for training and less sleep at nights, but he looked poor in his defense and was eating those rare left hands that Darchinyan drops for all the fight.
I mean this fight was completely
different from the last one, just the end was almost the same. This time
Vic Darchinyan was not going forward so much. He was in super defensive
stance for all the rounds. He was moving backwards everytime Nonito
threw a shot, he was almost not using his jab, just he attacked with his
big left hand from time to time. What was most amazing is that those
left hands were landing. I mean Nonitos defense was so poor that Vic
Darchinyan was able to land one power shot after another and Nonito
wasn't able to block or to escape them.
One more important thing was that
almost every time Darchinyan connected, Nonito looked hurt. After the
fight Nonito said that Darchinyan broke his cheek in the round 2 and it
was very hard for him to continue...
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