By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum was less than impressed with the manner that WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (12-0, 8 KO’s) unseated his much more popular fighter in WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (31-2, 20 KO’s) last night in beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision in a fight that was frequently booed by the large pro-Donaire crowd from start to finish.
Arum would have liked to have seen more action from Rigondeaux because he recognizes that’s what the boxing public wants to see from their fighters.
Arum said to Yahoo Sports about Rigondeaux: “I’m 81-years-old and I’m probably going to have to do the best promoting job I’ve ever done…It was not a very engaging fight. When Rigondeaux stands and fights, the ***** has a lot of power and a lot of skill, but the running the way he does really makes it not a watchable fight. I had Donaire up by one point heading into the 11th.”