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FILIPINO star Nonito Donaire reclaimed the
World Boxing Organization super bantamweight
world title on Friday with a gutsy unanimous decision
over Mexico’s Cesar Juarez in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Donaire was in control early, knocking Juarez
down twice with left hooks in the fourth round.
But an aggressive Juarez turned the tide in the
middle rounds, battering the 33-year-old Donaire
who was clearly slowing by the seventh round under
an onslaught that left him with one eye cut and
swelling.
Juarez, 24, should have been credited with a
knockdown in the 10th, when his left hook sent
Donaire down.
But Donaire had enough left to land effectively in
the final rounds and won the thriller by scores of 116- his return to 122 pounds in the wake of a sixth-round
110, 116-110 and 117-109.
“Tremendous fight!” Donaire said. “We give him
so much respect. We gave it all.
“I will definitely give him a rematch,” he added.
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Juarez, who fell to 17-4 with 13 knockouts, thought
the scores should have been closer — but he didn’t ©AFP file photo
dispute Donaire’s win.
“The judges were not fair,” he said. “It was much
closer, like a one or two point fight. But I do think
Donaire won.”
With the win Donaire improved to 36-3 with 23
knockouts.
A former world champion in five weight divisions, he
captured the vacant WBO super bantamweight belt.
It’s a title Donaire had held before — losing it by
unanimous decision in 2013 to Guillermo Rigondeaux
who was stripped of the crown for inactivity.
Donaire has now won three fights in a row since
knockout loss to unbeaten Jamaican Nicholas Walters
14 months ago.
That defeat in Los Angeles saw Donaire lose the
World Boxing Association featherweight world title.
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