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DONAIRE TO UNDERGO SURGERY THIS FRIDAY By Ronnie Nathanielsz PhilBoxing.com Thu, 18 Apr 2013  Dethroned WBO, Ring Magazine and WBC Diamond Belt super bantamweight champion Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire will undergo surgery this Friday in San Francisco. Donaire?s wife Rachel told the Manila Standard that the surgery will be done in ?a surgery center like an outpatient facility. It's not a hospital thing. He doesn?t have to stay overnight or anything.? Donaire was asleep when we called very early Thursday (Manila Time) but Rachel was awake since she was packing their bags as they were set to leave for San Francisco at night. She said they had a doctor?s appointment on Thursday to make arrangements for the surgery. Donaire is believed to be suffering from a torn ligament in his right shoulder. Rachael who is expecting their first child around July 21 said it is not likely to set back his return to the ring because it had been planned. She revealed that her husband "knew that this was bothering him that?s why he planned to take off for so long because of the baby but he?ll come back at the end of the year. The doctors said she should be fine by then.? Donaire himself earlier told a recent episode of BoxingScene Radio ?I plan to be back before the end of the year. They were looking at, at least 6 months but if I take care of myself and the way I heal, I heal very fast. So we're looking to be able to come back to the gym around 4 months or so and start training but it's a long process as you have to do rehabilitation and all this other stuff. But they are telling me 4-6 months but I want to be back [before end of the year].? After reviewing the tape of his fight with newly crowned champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux at the iconic Radio City Music Hall last Saturday, Donaire conceded "I don't think that I did enough to take the fight from him. I did do enough to entertain the people but again, when you're in there it's a different story because you push and you push and you try to make the fight happen and I felt I wasn't really getting tagged with a lot of things. But looking at it now, it?s a different story. It's a different story than what you see in there because the guy is moving and he's tagging you and of course he's getting those points. But when you're in there it seems like it?s [just] a jab and you're just trying to keep forward and press forward. And that's how I felt getting out of the ring, that I deserved enough but you know, looking back now, it wasn't enough.? The four division champion who dropped from No. 5 to No. 10 in Ring Magazine?s pound for pound rankings admitted he had failed to follow the instructions of his corner headed by ?Trainer of the Year? Robert Garcia who had pleaded in-between rounds for Donaire to throw combinations instead of looking to land one big shot. He told Boxing Scene ?It's a could've, would've [situation]. If we [had stuck] to the plan and threw a lot of combinations like we planned to do, instead of that one punch knockout mentality. I had in my head 'oh this guy is going to fall if I get him with one punch' but he turned out to be a lot tougher than I expected.? Donaire recalled that he ?felt the same as [Vic] Darchinyan did when he said he believed in his power but I didn't [practice] what I was always preaching. Your power is nothing when you can't really land it properly. And that was the ironic thing because I always said that and yet I was the one doing and falling for that because I believed in the power I had and didn't follow the instructions that I was supposed to. I looked sluggish. I looked slow and sluggish and I just didn't do my job.? Click here to view a list of other articles written by Ronnie Nathanielsz.  |
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