Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 10/11
By Tim Starks, The Queensberry Rules, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
September and October had the potential to disturb these pound-for-pound rankings more than they did, but the onset of fall didn't do as much rumbling as anticipated. It didn't help that the Super Six finale got canceled and that there were some lackluster performances where nobody really separated   Read Full Story >>>

My Next Victim: Donaire Takes Aim at Jorge Arce & Toshiaki Nishioka
By Carlos Acevedo, The Cruelest Sport, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
It took 12 stupefying rounds, but Nonito Donaire whitewashed Omar Narvaez last night at the WaMu Theater in New York City, scoring a monotonous shutout over an opponent who turned out to be a wallflower in the ring. With a high guard that might have doubled as barding, Narvaez succeeded in neutra  Read Full Story >>>

A look at the Donaire ? Narvaez fight through the camera lens
By Diane Bennett, Diamond Boxing, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
A look at Nonito Donaire Madison Square Garden victory debut through the camera lens. Even though the outcome was not exactly what many had expecting there was still some action inside the ring and our cameras caught it all. Going into Saturday?s night fight with Omar Narvaez many had expected an  Read Full Story >>>

Q & A: Manny Pacquiao is ready to settle things
By Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
Manny Pacquiao has listened to Juan Manuel Marquez's complaints almost from the moment a Nevada State Athletic Commission judge scored that Pacquiao defeated Marquez, 114-113, in their March 15, 2008, rematch. Judge Tom Miller's scorecard settled alternate 115-112 scores by Duane Ford (for Pacqu  Read Full Story >>>

Images, Quotes, and Highlights from HBO?s 24/ 7 Pacquiao-Marquez, episode 1
By Chris Robinson, Examiner.com, Mon, 24 Oct 2011

Last night, before HBO?s airing of the Nonito Donaire-Omar Narvaez bantamweight title affair, the network also took some time to unveil the first episode of their excellent 24/7 series, with the focus being on the November 12th trilo  Read Full Story >>>

Donaire Odyssey: Not a nice goodbye
By Edwin G. Espejo, Asian Correspondent, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
Frustration was written all over Nonito Donaire?s face after he fashioned out an uninspiring unanimous decision win in his farewell fight as a bantamweight. Donaire never found his grove as Argentinean Omar Narvaez showed how durable he is by simply putting up a defense. Narvaez was in no mood  Read Full Story >>>

Nonito Donaire needs to stop dwarf-tossing, go after Lopez, Gamboa
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
If elongated Nonito Donaire Jr. had pulled a Chadwick Dawson and hurled the much smaller Omar Narvaez to the canvas at Madison Square Garden Saturday, it would've been an improvement on the boring title bout in which the Argentinean simply refused to engage. When fans start chanting. "This is bull  Read Full Story >>>

Donaire not happy winning 'boring' fight vs Narvaez
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
MANILA, Philippines - Nonito Donaire Jr. faced a statue named Omar Narvaez and left the Madison Square Garden with his belts wrapped around his shoulder. He just smiled and walked away. But up in the ring, against the previously undefeated boxer from Argentina, Donaire didn?t look happy at all  Read Full Story >>>

Pacquiao: I Can't Force Mayweather Jr. To Fight Me
By Chris LaBate, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is still very interested in facing Floyd Mayweather Jr., who captured the WBC title with a fourth round knockout of Victor Ortiz in September. Pacquiao defends his belt against Juan Manuel Marquez on November 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. After defeat  Read Full Story >>>

Garden debut leaves Donaire frustrated
By George Willis, New York Post, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
At various points Nonito Donaire went from frustrated to bored to POed. He wanted to bring a taste of old school boxing to the Garden Theater Saturday night, the kind of boxing where fighters slug it out to prove who has the bigger heart and better skills. Instead, Donaire might as well have been  Read Full Story >>>

NYC fans disappointed as Donaire pitches a shutout on Broadway
By Nick Bellafatto, Diamond Boxing, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
After round 11, defending WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire 27-1 (18 KO?s) of San Mateo, California poignantly stated, ?I?m bored,? referring to the fact that his opponent Omar Narvaez 35-1 (19 KO?s) of Cordoba Argentina was reluctant to engage Nonito in any way, shap  Read Full Story >>>

Narvaez happy with performance
FightNews.com, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
?I think it went very well defensively, but I did not attack enough to win,? said WBO super flyweight champion Omar Narvaez after suffering his first career loss Saturday night against WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire. ?Neither of us wanted to make a mistake because in this kind of fight  Read Full Story >>>

Donaire Takes Narvaez?s Spirit In Shutout
By Carlos Cinco, FightcardBoxing.net, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
As the curtains closed on a night looked forward to by many, Nonito Donaire shook his head in disappointment. His opponent, Omar Andres Narvaez of Argentina, failed to make his presence known over 12 lopsided rounds. It was supposed to be Donaire?s coming out party of sorts, fighting for the first t  Read Full Story >>>

A Night At The Fights with Donaire and Narvaez
By Scoop Malinowski, Boxing Insider, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
Mike Jones is at the 7:00 press conference and the Bar & Grill. The impressive Philadelphia welterweight is holding court with a group of scribes but he?s a quiet type, the sort who would rather let his actions speak louder than any words. He says he?s ready for any welterweight ? Mayweather, Pacqua  Read Full Story >>>

Donaire boxed brilliantly - haters be silent!
By Brad Cooney, 8countnews, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
I just read an article where a boxing writer said that Nonito Donaire was exposed by Omar Narvaez. Really? Did I read that right? There were two things exposed last night, and it wasn't Nonito Donaire. The first thing exposed last night was the fact that Donaire had a very good fighter in front o  Read Full Story >>>

BERISTAIN SAYS AN IMPROVED PACQUIAO WILL BE AN ADVANTAGE FOR MARQUEZ
By Felix Strunk, FightHype.com, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
According to world-class trainer Nacho Beristain, the fact that Manny Pacquiao is now a more refined boxer is an advantage for his star pupil, Juan Manuel Marquez, allowing him to utilize his boxing skills in what he thinks will be a much more traditional technical battle when both men step into the  Read Full Story >>>

Round And Round, Featuring Everybody Wanting Floyd Mayweather, A New Year's Eve With Zsolt Erdei, Brad Pitt And More
By Tim Starks, The Queensberry Rules, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
There's probably no better way to get over a wretched several months of big-time boxing (we'll complain more later, but with one exception you have to go all the way back to July to find a main event on a major card that wasn't unsatisfying) than to look ahead. It's a mouthwash solution, though, tha  Read Full Story >>>

Marquez will be taught a lesson - - Freddie Roach
By Brad Cooney, Examiner.com, Mon, 24 Oct 2011
When Juan Manuel Marquez arrived in The Philippines wearing a shirt that said, '' I beat Pacquiao twice'' it wasn't very funny in the eyes of Manny and his team. Recently I spoke with famed fight trainer Freddie Roach and he informed this writer that the little prank played by JMM didn't sit well wi  Read Full Story >>>

Is there a ?Frazier? out there for Donaire?
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 24 Oct 2011

It?s not much of a fight if only one guy does most of the punching. Nonito Donaire tried to make things exciting but Omar Narvaez picked the defense and survival route. It takes two to tango; a dance which ironically origina  Read Full Story >>>

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