Donaire KO punch awes trainer
By Roy LuarcaAs a former world champion and now rising trainer, Robert Garcia doesn’t easily dish out superlatives.
As a former world champion and now rising trainer, Robert Garcia doesn’t easily dish out superlatives.
It could be long, it could be short. But one thing is sure, the knockout will come and Nonito Donaire will deliver it. Not Jorge Arce. This was the bold declaration of Robert Garcia, Donaire’s chief trainer, Friday at PlazAmericas here.
Bright lights. Big City. Dull fight.
Nonito Donaire Jr. chased an all-too-protective Omar Narvaez for 12 rounds to retain his twin world bantamweight titles with an unexciting unanimous decision victory Saturday night (Sunday Manila time) before a packed but highly disappointed crowd at Madison Square Garden’s The Theatre.
It will take from five to seven rounds to break down Omar Narvaez then Nonito Donaire Jr. will likely finish the job in the eighth.
Manny Pacquiao once again put on a magnificent display of boxing skill, incredible hand speed, cat-quick movement, remarkable power and indomitable courage in pulverizing a hapless Antonio Margarito in 12 rounds on Sunday.
Manny Pacquiao quashed all weight concerns as he underscored his tag as the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter with the total demolition of Antonio Margarito.
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VETERAN colleague Ronnie Nathanielsz got flustered when he learned that Manny Pacquiao, on the eve of his fight against Antonio Margarito, tipped the scales at a low 144.6 pounds during the weigh-in at East Plaza of the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
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Antonio Margarito vowed that Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao’s popular trash-talking trainer, would eat his words. “Roach should watch out what he says,” Margarito said in a recent television interview. The Mexican three-time world champion was obviously upset about Roach’s predictions that Fighter of the Decade Pacquiao will knock him out in their showdown today (Manila [...]
On the eve of what admittedly is the “most important” fight of his career, Manny Pacquiao again downplayed claims that his training for the fight against Antonio Margarito had been plagued by distractions. Pacquiao, in a recent conference call, also insisted that he had “trained hard and that there were no distractions.” “Nothing to worry [...]
A lighter but faster Manny Pacquiao takes on a heftier Antonio Margarito later for the vacant WBC super welterweight title.
