By Chris Williams: WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (28-1, 18 KO’s) said he didn’t even bother watching fellow 122 lb champion WBA World super bantamweight title holder Guillermo Rigondeaux’s fight against Teon Kennedy last Saturday night on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Tim Bradley.

Donaire, who hasn’t been shy about expressing his disinterest in facing Rigondeaux, said on his facebook page “In case you’re wondering, I watched the Celtics vs. Heat instead of Rigos [Rigondeaux] fight because I chose to watch something with better competition promising me entertainment.”

Does that sound like Donaire is bitter or what? Instead of saying something like that, Donaire should step up to the plate take on Rigondeaux. More than a few hardcore boxing fans think Donaire is afraid of facing Rigondeaux. When you look at the guys that Donaire is facing, it’s hard to argue with those fans. In his next fight, he’s facing the IBF champ Jeffrey Mathebula, who looks nothing special to me. I’d favor Kennedy over Mathebula any day of the week. He doesn’t impress me at all. In Donaire’s other recent fights, he beat Wilfredo Vazquez Jr., who had recently been beaten by Jorge Arce.

Why Donaire wanted to take Arce’s sloppy seconds, I have no idea. It looked like a cherry picking move to me. Before that, Donaire dipped into the super flyweight division to find a smaller opponent Omar Narvaez to beat. Donaire beat him but looked horrible, and then blamed it on Narvaez for Donaire not looking better. What is that?

In the past, Donaire has said that he feels Rigondeaux is a boring fighter because of his counter-punching style of fighting. However, you can’t argue with his results. Rigondeaux is 10-0 with eight knockouts. He’s knocking everyone out and making a statement with each victory. In last night’s fight, Rigondeaux knocked Kennedy down five times in their fight before it was finally stopped by the referee Russell Mora.

Kennedy probably would have gotten back to his feet and continued fighting, but it was too one-sided for the fight to be allowed to have continued. Rigondeaux didn’t throw a lot of punches, but he didn’t need to. It seemed like each time he’d land a scorching left hand, Kennedy would either stagger or go down.

How can Donaire not want to see Rigondeaux fight? If everyone is saying Rigondeaux is the best in the division, Donaire should have some curiosity at least to see what people are raving about.