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Validation in Action and in Numbers (Official Score Cards for Donaire-Maldonado) By J.V. Tuazon, DPT aka 'The Fight Doc' PhilBoxing.com Thu, 06 Dec 2007  Six years, ten months?19 fights?85 total rounds?five world championship rounds?average length of bouts 4.4 rounds?KO Percentage 61 %. -Versus- Nine years, eight months?39 total fights?226 total rounds?eight world championship rounds?average length of bouts 5.7 rounds?KO percentage 75%. 224 combined pounds of boxing muscle. Quantitatively, these numbers don?t add up to squat but qualitatively, they make for an explosive, bloody flyweight match up that numbers can?t adequately describe. Ken Hershman, Showtime?s Senior Vice President/Sports & Events General Manager, and promoter Gary Shaw brought Christmas early this year for die-hard boxing fans with the first televised bout on their December 1st production. The gift was the beautifully wrapped present in the form of two flyweights showing heavyweight heart, and a heavyweight punch. ?Everybody?s been trying to say that I might be a ?one-hit wonder,? but I?m here to stay,? stated Donaire emphatically. ?I am here to make things happen. I have a goal in life, and that?s to beat all the best out there and to prove to myself and everyone that I can be a great champion.? ?The Filipino Flash? lived up to his promise tonight. He proved his detractors wrong and showed the skeptics that he was not a mere ?one punch wonder.? Like a skilled carpenter working at his trade, the young Donaire showed that he is a ?multi-punch wonder? by soundly nailing and hammering the game Maldonado. No scorecards, compu-box stats, punch statistics ? nor this journalists? words - can adequately describe how this story unfolded as well as the telling facial emotions, cuts, and bruises of the rugged Maldonado ? who had only been knocked down for the second time in his ten year pro run. The first two judges? scorecards were identical to mine ? a shutout for the Flash ? while the third had Maldonado winning only the fourth. Thomas Gerbasi, a well respected boxing and MMA writer had Maldonado winning the fourth as well. At the palatial Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, here is how it looked from press row at ringside, round by telling round from the official score cards: 
Official scorecard of the main event, Antonio Tarver versus Danny Santiago, IBO world light-heavyweight championship bout. Courtesy of Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Athletic Commission. 
Official scorecard of second televised fight, Vernon Forrest versus Michele Piccirillo, WBC world junior middleweight championship bout. Courtesy of Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Athletic Commission. 
Official scorecard of the opening televised bout, Nonito Donaire versus Luis Maldonado, IBF/IBO world championship bout. Courtesy of Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Athletic Commission. Click here to view a list of other articles written by J.V. Tuazon, DPT aka 'The Fight Doc'.  |
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