#1 WBO Jessie Magdaleno (24-0, 17 KOs) defeated WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (37-4, 24 KOs) by a surprising 12 round unanimous decision upset on Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Donaire, 33, only has himself to blame for the loss, as he didn’t start to really attack the 24-year-old Magdaleno until the last four rounds of the fight. By that point, Magdaleno had built up a wide insurmountable lead that Donaire couldn’t narrow down.
The final judges’ scores were 116-112, 116-112 amd 118-110. The 116-112 score was a fair one.
Donaire dominated the championship rounds in appearing to win rounds 10 through 12. Donaire hurt Magdaleno right a right hand to the head in the 10th. Magdaleno did a good job of surviving that rough period.
In the 11th round, Donaire stalked Magdaleno around the ring, nailing him with big shots. The southpaw Magdaleno was able to connect with some nice shots to make the round close, but they were no comparison to the bombs that Donaire was dropping in the round.
Donaire hit Magdaleno with some hard right hands to the head in the 12th round. Magdaleno was in pure survival mode in that round, as he knew he had the fight won and he wasn’t going to take chances.
The 9th round saw Magdaleno hurt Donaire with a hard left hand. Donaire was driven to the ropes where he took a lot of punishment to the head. Donaire tried to fight back, but he took a lot of heavy shots in that round. It’s a credit to Donaire that he was able to survive the flurry of punches that Magdaleno threw, because it was pretty brutal looking. By the end of the round, Donaire’s face looked bruised from the shots that he was hit by in the round.
This defeat is bad news for Donaire’s career, as he wasn’t facing the best fighter in the super bantamweight division in Magdaleno. There are arguably better fighters than Magdaleno such as Scott Quigg and Guillermo Rigondeaux, who Donaire has already lost to in the past in 2013.
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Manny Pacquiao wins and dominated his fight over Chris Algieri, winning over unanimous decision. The fight happened last Sunday afternoon at the Cotai Arena in Macau.
Pacquiao knocked down Alieri 6 times officially in the fight. Michael Buffer read the scorecards as 119-103, 119-103, and 120-102 but the numbers, gaudy as these are, could not completely encapsulate just how dominant Pacquiao was in the fight.
“Tonight I did my best. I’m so satisfied with my performance tonight. I came to fight. I did my best. That’s enough for me,” Pacquiao said in the post fight interview.
“I’m very confident I’d win the fight. I was trying to go for a knockout but he was fast. He was moving.”
Chris Algieri spent a significant portion of the fight backpedaling to stay away from his predator, which at times frustrated the crowd that included legendary action stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone at ringside.
He wasn’t able to prove it Sunday, instead suffering the first loss of his career after 20 wins (8 KOs).
The hashtags #PacAlgieri and #PinoyPride as well as the keywords Pambansang Kamao became instant trending topics on Twitter immediately after the Pacquiao-Algieri match.
