Posted on 05/30/2021
By: Sean Crose
“We knew he was going to look for the hook. We knew that once he opened up for the straight, he would be susceptible for the hook because he doesn’t ever evade that. We knew if he slipped we’d go straight down the middle all the time. And then we brought in the uppercut. I was like ‘he’s going to look for the hook so, we need to find some way so when he gets to the other side to throw the uppercut’. Everything that we worked on just materialized.”
These words did not come from Robert Garcia. Nor did the come from Freddie Roach. Or Floyd Mayweather Senior, or Buddy McGirt, or Ronnie Shields, or any other of boxing’s best known trainers. They came from Rachel Marcial Donaire as she spoke to ES News after her husband, Nonito Donaire, won the WBC Bantamweight title on Saturday by knocking out defending champion Nordine Oubaali in the fourth round at Carson, California’s Dignity Health Sport’s Park. To say Donaire supports her h
By: Sean Crose Former pound for pound ranked fighter Nonito Donaire hoped to keep defying the naysayers by giving another solid performance as he faced