FERNANDO MONTIEL RUMORS
The Week's Boxing Schedule, Featuring Wladimir Klitschko, Joan Guzman, Fernando Montiel And ...
Just like Blake Anderson, we're nice guys at TQBR. So nice that we bring you the schedule even when there's virtually nothing on. Not unless you're a Klitschko beatdown enthusiast/German, which is pretty much the same thing anyway. The younger Klitschko is fighting former cruiserweight Jean-Marc Mormeck, who really has no business in the ring with him. Serial...
Super Bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire talks Guillermo Rigondeaux “I was not impressed”
Super bantamweight boxing champion Nonito Donaire is looking to have a big 2012. Riding off his knockout of the year win against Fernando Montiel in February of 2011 and chalking up two wins against Omar Navarez and Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. since then, “The Filipino Flash,” has begun to make some major waves in terms of [...]
BoxingWatchers.com 2011 Knockout of the Year: Nonito Donaire TKO2 Fernando Montiel
We may wait until the very last minute around these parts, but rest assured the Boxing Watchers eventually hand out year-end awards just like every other sports site on the internets. We're kicking things off with our Knockout of the Year, and we'll progress on to the Fight of the Year, Fighter of the Year and our top 10 pound-for-pound list (which we do only once a year...
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December 28, 2011
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201 Boxing Knockout Of The Year: Nonito Donaire - Fernando Montiel
There was an element of the cartoonish about what Nonito Donaire did to Fernando Montiel's face in the 2nd round of their Feb. 19, 2011 rendezvous. You can imagine the artists and writers at a Warner Bros. storyboard session, coming up with a scenario where, during a zany bit of fisticuffs, one 'toon caves in the face of another 'toon, perhaps with an anvil hidden in...
2011 Knockout of the Year
KO of the Year in 2011
What was the best knockout of the year in 2011? There were a handful of memorable, concussive choices to consider. But one stands alone at the top of the heap. Here's the 2011 knockout of the year in boxing.
Nonito Donaire TKO2 Fernando Montiel
Credit: Chris Farina - Top Rank
Out of the several worthy contenders for Knockout of the Year, Nonito Donaire...
Terrazas shreds, decisions Montiel
While most fight fans were watching Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. walk through a pedestrian Peter Manfredo Jr. on HBO, there was a true passing of the torch going on in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, as Victor "El Vikingo" Terrazas (32-2-1, 18 KOs) battered and bloodied Fernando Montiel (46-4-2, 36 KOs) en route to a 12-round unanimous decision to win the vacant WBC silver junior...
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November 20, 2011
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Donaire retains titles with decision win
Nonito Donaire retained the WBC and WBO bantamweight titles, unanimously outpointing Omar Narvaez on Saturday night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Donaire improved to 27-1, extending his nine-year winning streak to 26 fights, with winning scores of 120-108 from the judges. He failed to record a knockout for the 10th time in his last 11 fights in a performance that had...
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October 23, 2011
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Donaire’s cut-and-run will pay off
Nonito Donaire's WBC/WBO bantamweight title defense against super flyweight titlist Omar Narvaez (35-0-2, 19 KOs) this Saturday marks his third fight as a bantamweight and second straight fight televised by HBO.
Donaire made a huge impact with a textbook left hook -- on both the boxing world, who expected a closer fight, and on Fernando Montiel, who was left convulsing on the...
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October 21, 2011
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Donaire Plans to "Set a Trap" For Narvaez During Fight
Nonito Donaire worked out in a Manhattan gym this afternoon and looked ready-- and sounded even more prepared-- for his 12-round World Bantamweight Championship fight against Omar Narvaez this Saturday night. So much so, the fast talking Filipino said he "will set a trap for him [Narvaez] because that's the kind of fighter I am." Donaire (26-1, 18 KO's), the World...
Nonito Donaire Workout Pictures
Nonito Donaire is back in action next Saturday night, squaring off against two-division champion Omar Narvaez from Madison Square Garden in New York City. It's Donaire's first fight since his crushing knockout win over Fernando Montiel, which vaulted him into discussion as a top 3 type pound for pound fighter. Donaire recently held a public workout in preparation of his...
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