Topic: [Boxing] Nonito Donaire vs Alejandro Santiago for WBC bantamweight title - page 4. (Read 4409 times)

It's the right strategy to be made, considering Donaire is older now; he might slow down as the fight goes longer. However, that's a big task for Santiago, as he needs to prevent the heavy punches of Donaire. Since Donaire is a counter-punching guy, the fight might be boring if he does not engage. I don't see a scenario that will give the fans enjoyment, but if it's the strategy, then there's nothing we can do but watch.

And that's why Nonito should take out Santiago early if he can. And if you look at some of his victories, usually it didn't last a full 12 rounds. So for me this might also be the case here, Nonito feeling Santiago early and if he can open up with his counter left then he might go and look for the early knockout.

For sure he has prepared a full twelve round fight, but it's better if he can win early because his money might not take a gruelling and long fight and just a momentarily slip in the concentration might give Santiago to go for a knockout as well. So the risk is there as the fight goes longer for him and for Santiago he might want to prolong the fight and test Nonito's stamina.

The only scenario I see in this fight is Donaire winning by KO. Santiago is not the type of boxer who loves to run; he is an attacker as well. So, it would be easy for Donaire to impose his game plan against a shorter guy who loves to attack. I think that's better than Fulton, who tried to play safe but was still caught by Inoue in the end. Thus, I'm expecting firepower from the start of round 1, and this fight may not last 6 rounds in my opinion.

Nonito Donaire could win this fight easily because of his natural speed and power but the problem here is if he can still manage to take punches and managed to survive up to 12 rounds of non-stop action. Because as we know, he is no longer feeling like his old self, and taking multiple power punches is way more harder than before. Most likely he will higher his chance to win when Santiago distances himself and will not gonna choose to throw multiple power punches throughout the rounds because he is scared of the counter punches from Donaire.

Probably the only short boxer who beat Donaire was Inoue. But against the rest, he will likely dominate them in the fight. However, he does have some weaknesses, and one of them is probably his age. As we all know, when a boxer is getting older, his strength will also be affected. Nevertheless, since Alejandro Santiago does not have a special talent like Inoue, I believe Donaire can handle that and will be able to win the championship again.

Nonito was most taller, So he get more range as compared to other people.The shorter boxer will be easy for the Nonito, he can crush the short boxer using his hand power.In addition he had a power punch compared to the Santiago.Santiago had win many old experience boxer using his power arm.This fight will against the two power arm fighter.So the game winner will be the maximum punch player.The Nonito should win the game against the Santiago to prove his power against the most powerful player.This will make them to prove his power and make other to think about the match, even this help the Nonito to get the championship.

I think he should not be overlooking Santiago, in fact that's what I read from Nonito, he wanted to win this fight first before they talk about who's next for him. In the face-off, Donaire is the taller guy so that is a plus for him.

Having height advantage throughout his career, we have seen him knocking people out from Darchy to Ouballi before his reign was cut by Inoue. But now Donaire wanted to proved again that he can become a champion. So this is a step for him before we talk about him fighting for undisputed next.

It's technically not that impossible to do if he really wanted to cement his legacy and be the next undisputed champion in the bantamweight division. But before all of that, he should know and consider some things first like as he age, some factors might change because his body will start to decline specially at his age now where he is not that young anymore. I'd say that he should focus on his upcoming fight first because the outcome will be an indication what to do next.

Donaire is no longer with Probellum as that management has been dissolved already because of the allegations that they are tied to the Irish Mafia. And Donaire is one of those fighters who Richard Schaeffer got and he will be the one promoting Donaire himself (of course with Rachel Donaire's blessing).

And with that, I think they can bury the hatch and Arum and Schaeffer has work before even when Richard is still with Golden Boy Promotions. So if Donaire wins then he can fight Moloney for a 2 belt unification next.

Hopefully he can accomplished it if he wins here, but one of the stumbling block is that Moloney is with Top Rank and remember that he used to be the number 1 rank fighter in wBC, so it should be Donaire vs Moloney. But Moloney and his camp jump ship to WBO because maybe he doesn't want to fight Inoue that time, or Top Rank's Bob Arum refusing to work with Probellum (Donaire's previous promotional management). So we will see if Donaire camp's didn't take that personally and decline a fight with Moloney because of that reason.

If Nonito wins the championship his next target is to be the undisputed Bantamweight Champion, based on the interview with Tai Lopez Donaire will go on until he becomes the next champion because this is the only thing missing in his career, to become the undisputed champion, so if he wins here he will push for a unification of the title I hope he can still do it at his age, we'll see if father time is still not diminished his power.


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Yeah, it's done already, and I would say that Inoue is pound for pound for that performance against the best 122 lbs, (sorry for the fans of Marlon Tapales). He just defeated and take the 0 of Fulton sending him back to the US without his belt.

Now, as fans we still have two great fights in the calendar his weekends, and this is one of them. So far fans still fancy that Inoue will win here, might be by KO or judges decision as he has the tools to beat Santiago even if he is way over the age of usual boxers in their prime. And so his predictions doesn't have any weight or factor now.

We should not take Donaire's prediction on the fight between Inoue and Fulton as a big deal. It's not that he is a predictor right away lol.

It just makes sense to ask him what will be his prediction because somehow, he and Inoue has a rival experience. It's not that Donaire is predicting the fight regularly. Obviously, as a former rival of Inoue, he was asked to give his prediction and that's it - no strings attached.

Anyways, Inoue won an impressive Knock Out win. Case close about Donaire's prediction.

I really can't deny what you're saying, because here Inoue represents the typical boxer who wants to exceed his limits and as he is, I think he loves the sport and is willing to do whatever it takes to be the best of all time, I don't know if I'm exaggerating, but the things that he has done, no boxer does, and he does them with great mastery, so this highlights things.

Every boxer has his limits and knows his abilities, but really when I see Inoue in the ring, I think he has not even used 50% of his ability, that is why he demands a lot, when going up in category, because he could be affected, because he has to get used to his body, let's see how he does with Fulton.


It is very true, now Donaire is better to stay as a boxer and not as a predictor of results, he has to update himself a little more in the capacities of each boxer, personally I think that Nonito should focus very well on his fight, I really don't know if there will be a KO in Nonito's fight, but here the most likely thing is that if Nnoito wants to excel he has to give everything, and he has had a very good time to train, I always I have believed that a boxer wins his penis not in the ring, but in training, that is where it is decided who is the best, they can do and say a lot about the rest, but when they give details of the training it is a plus that should be used to the maximum.

Regarding Nonito's possible fights, it is very good to think that if he manages to win this one, the paths will open up for him in an impressive way, I hope so, I like this boxer.

One of the things I have noticed is that in boxing they are not taking veteran boxers very much into consideration, even though they are very necessary in fights, now I know that there are many young people, but nothing like those from the old school, I am a fan of boxing where I like to see a well-seasoned fight, with almost no technical details, because the technical details make a fight look somewhat boring, however this is valid.

A interesting article:

Nonito Donaire: Still Going Strong


Source: https://www.saddoboxing.com/63522-nonito-donaire-still-going-strong.html

And it turns that Donaire was wrong as Inoue beats Fulton via TKO.

We can go back to the topic now and forget about what Donaire said about the possibility of Fulton to win the fight, now it's
almost the fight day for Donaire, still the ML is sweet and @ 1.61 and over 10.5 @ 2.43, if you are a fan and you are unsure
if Donaire may or may not KO his opponent, those two options may suit you.

Hehe I think that it was just an honest mistake because Inoue's name has been always involved whenever we're talking about Nonito Donaire specially after he gave his speculations towards the Inoue vs Fulton fight because surprisingly, Donaire made his own prediction and sided with Stephen Fulton despite the fact that he was defeated twice by Inoue.

Anyway, I already pushed my bets on this fight, and I got Donaire to win via KO as well because to be honest, the moneyline wasn't that tempting.

If possible, to unify all the belts before retiring. For me as well, that's a good accomplishment to bring when you have already decided to retire.

Though it's still early for that conversation as he needed to win this fight first before he can continue
proceed with that possible unification fight.

We might be seeing him trying his best as age really not favoring him, and there are factors that might affect his flexibilities.

Of course, Filipinos will be happy to see Donaire become a champion again, but we also understand that Donaire's career in boxing will end soon. If he becomes a champion, I hope he will stay in this division until he retires, maybe try to get more fights and aim to become an undisputed champion. I think that would already be a good achievement before retiring.

Yep, for us who I will say just had small capital to play, it's better if we are going to look for other possibilities on this fight. It might be very difficult, but that's the excitement in gambling.

Maybe a per round will do, just a prediction on which rounds Donaire will win, same for Santiago supporters here.

But it seems that Donaire is the sentimental favorite here, we wanted to see Donaire makes a comeback win by either ko/tko and then becomes the oldest bantamweight. And for sure Philippines will be proud and happy to see another world champion with their flag on it.

If I'm not mistaken, there's not much change in the odds in the last week or so. Meaning those who back up Santiago has already place their bets, big whales and ordinary gamblers just like the rest of us. Same in the case of Donaire though, so the betting has unwind already and maybe they are just waiting for the fight to happen.

But there could be late bets, those undecided, or maybe they are on the Donaire bandwagon, but haven't made their mind yet to go for a knockout or decision bet for Nonito. Personally, I haven't bet as well, but for sure I will go with Donaire here to win.