LAS VEGAS ? Top Rank president Todd duBoef was quietly seething on Saturday as Omar Narvaez seemed to try to just finish, and not win, in his bantamweight title fight in New York with Nonito Donaire. The result of duBoef?s anger will result in Donaire?s next bout becoming a true prizefight.
He said he?s going to put a $100,000 winner-take-all bonus on the line for Donaire?s next bout as a way to encourage the fighters to compete. The money will be in addition to the fighters? contracted purses.
The normally stoic duBoef was enraged when Narvaez fought in a turtle position with his hands high in front of his face and rarely threw punches during their HBO-televised bout at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Narvaez lost every round, but when the bout ended, he raced to the corner and jumped on the ropes in celebration, overjoyed that he had made it the full 12 rounds with Donaire, the World Boxing Council/World Boxing Organization champion.
