Comments Thread For: Donaire Beats Injured Burnett By TKO, Wins WBA Title in Shocker

[TJ highway]

Burnett was already feeling the pain of the body shots before the opening of the 4th rd.

He was dancing around Nonito and not punching that much in the 4th.

Burnett was just a good actor to escape embarrassment in front of the home crowd. No hate JMHO, Peace!

[HumanBag]

Why you got to be so nice?!

Comrades who appreciate the lower weights sticks together.

[Pacquiaotard86]

Donaire was going to win this anyway, without the back injury of Burnett. Nonito is going to school Tete. Naoya Inoue is the one who is going to pulverize Nonito.

Agreed, Burnett was boxing well landing clean punches, but Donaire was hungry and had cruel intentions. Donaire was going to win unless Burnett landed something very big.

[Citizen Koba]

Also bring back predator hair ffs this announcer is terrible.

David Diamante? I prefer to call him Drexl myself, but Predator Hair works too, I guess. Long as everyone knows who you mean.

[Madison Boxing]

X3 pick em multiplier on burnett points ffs.

[Vinnykin]

I thought Donaire was starting to come on and take over, landing hard power shots on Burnett..... this would have been a great fight and well done to Donaire for coming in at 35 and looking good at 118 again.

[Citizen Koba]

Interesting that when Burnett fell down due to injury it was ruled as a knockdown by the ref. Is that a normal part of the rules or is it just a mistake by the ref? I've not seen this sort of thing happen before.

It's a funny one that. I think by custom and practice taking a knee is generally treated as a KD but I just had a quick scan of the Unified Rules and the BBBoC rules and all references refer to a fighter downed by a legitimate blow

EDIT: Ok - I think under the BBBoC and EBC unified rules it should probably properly be classed as a foul:

3.38 The following acts shall not be permitted during a Contest:-
(a) hitting below the belt:
(b) using the “pivot blow”:
(c) hitting on the back of the head or neck:
(d) kidney punching;
(e) hitting with the open glove, the inside, or the butt or the back of the hand, or with the wrist or elbow;
(f) holding, butting, or careless use of the head, shouldering, wrestling or roughing:
(g) not trying;
(h) persistently ducking below the waistline;
(i) intentional falling without receiving a blow;
(j) failing to break when so ordered, or striking or attempting to strike an opponent on the break;
(k) deliberately striking a opponent when he is dropping to the floor or when he is down;
(l) hitting an opponent after the termination of a round;
(m) any other conduct which a Referee may deem foul;

3.38.1 In any of the above cases the Referee shall name the Boxer at fault and call upon him to desist and may in his sole discretion have the power to caution or disqualify a Boxer for any such act with or without reference to any medical opinion.

3.38.2 A Referee may also deduct points from a Boxer’s score for breaches of these rules. He should indicate this to the Boxer, his corner and to the Steward in Charge or the Area Representative present by pointing to the offender, raising a finger or fingers to indicate the number of points deducted and call out the reason for the penalty,

On the other hand, Carlos Hernandez was awarded a KD against Floyd after Floyd's hand touched down when he hurt himself by landing on Hernandez' head... I'm guessing that may just have been a bad call though, and anyway the situations are somewhat different.



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[Dasmius Shinobi]

Agreed, Burnett was boxing well landing clean punches, but Donaire was hungry and had cruel intentions. Donaire was going to win unless Burnett landed something very big.

Overall, this was going to produce a great fight is that injury don't appear, but I am glad Nonito win.

[RuleOfTheSpear]

replayed the fight. it was the donaire body shots in round 3 that hurt burnett. latter stopped using his right in round 4.

[AdonisCreed]

nonito donaire, the luckiest champion since charles martin

Charles Martin won his belt because of hard work, skill and determination. .............

HAHAHA