{"id":236894,"date":"2019-11-08T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=236894"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:20:43","slug":"donaire-falls-to-inoue-in-wbss-bantamweight-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/08\/donaire-falls-to-inoue-in-wbss-bantamweight-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Donaire falls to Inoue in WBSS bantamweight final"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First of all, I want to thank God for keeping me safe in that ring. My guardian angels for holding that shield up, that armor as strong as they could. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tcvf79R10P\">pic.twitter.com\/Tcvf79R10P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nonito Donaire (@filipinoflash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/filipinoflash\/status\/1192613654627151874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Nonito Donaire fell short in his gallant stand against undefeated Japanese Naoya Inoue and lost in the bantamweight final of the World Boxing Super Series in Japan on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Donaire actually had a shot at stunning his unbeaten opponent in front of a sold-out crowd at the Super Arena in Saitama after his left hook opened a cut at Inoue&#8217;s right eye area in Round 2, slowing down the Japanese in the next two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>However, Inoue came alive again in the middle rounds, and despite Donaire appearing to have bounced back in Rounds 8 and 9, Inoue quickly recovered and delivered a critical body shot to Donaire in Round 11 that sent the Filipino down.<\/p>\n<p>Donaire still tried to recover after the knockdown but a bit too late.<\/p>\n<p>All three judges had it for Inoue, who moved up to 19-0, in contrasting scorecards (116-111, 117-109, 114-113).<\/p>\n<p>Aside from winning the WBSS tournament, Inoue also took Donaire&#8217;s World Boxing Association bantamweight super title while keeping the International Boxing Federation and Ring Magazine belts.<\/p>\n<p>Donaire fell to 40-6 in his already illustrious career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I want to thank God for keeping me safe in that ring. My guardian angels for holding &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":236895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236896,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236894\/revisions\/236896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}