{"id":29583,"date":"2014-10-22T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T03:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29583"},"modified":"2014-10-24T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T08:06:16","slug":"will-donaire-quit-or-move-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/22\/will-donaire-quit-or-move-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Donaire quit or move down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29250\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Walters-Donaire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29250\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Walters-Donaire-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Nicholas Walters defeats Nonito Donaire (Photo courtesy of Walters' Facebook fan page)\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Walters-Donaire-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Walters-Donaire.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Walters defeats Nonito Donaire (Photo courtesy of Walters&#8217; Facebook fan page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Following Nonito Donaire\u2019s recent loss to Nicholas Walters, seems like Donaire has two options \u2013 quit or move down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I will be [good] in this weight class, you know, as I\u2019m getting older,\u201d said Donaire. \u201cBut I\u2019m not going to take anything from Walters. I was at my best. I never trained this hard. Never, ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donaire lost to Walters over the weekend in the featherweight division via a knockout in the sixth round.<\/p>\n<p>Retirement may not be an option given that Donaire signed a fresh contract with Top Rank. It appears that he will return to the super bantam division.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI\u2019ve got to go back to the drawing board. I know that I can\u2019t compete with guys like Walters, he is just amazing, overwhelming, a powerful guy who is running in the ring. No matter what I did, movement or anything, I just can\u2019t stand to his size, his powerful aura inside that ring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Following Nonito Donaire\u2019s recent loss to Nicholas Walters, seems like Donaire has two options \u2013 quit or move &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[8343],"class_list":["post-29583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-donaire","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}