Wow! Who can say it better than the bedazzled commentator in the ringside right after the bout? “Father time take a backseat! Ageless wonder! Nonito Donaire continues to dare to be great. Tonight, he was sensational!”
It was a shocking phenomenon for the boxing world not because Nonito Donaire beat French-Moroccan champion Nordine Oubaali and recaptured the bantamweight belt. It must be for a reason that no one (perhaps) in boxing except Donaire would dare believe and expect to happen what has happened. Who would have imagined that the “Filipino Flash” could win in a spectacular knockout fashion on Round 4 versus the younger and aggressive/strong Oubaali when, as a matter of fact, Donaire is turning 39 this November. Now he holds not only the WBC bantamweight title, but that of being the oldest boxer to have become its champion.
“Amazing performance by a living legend@Filipino Flash. @38 years old he is now a 4 division world champion. Congratulations champ!,” tweeted the 37 year-old former light welterweight champion, Timothy Bradley.
Amazing performance by a living legend @filipinoflash . @ 38 years old he is now a 4 division world champion. Congratulations champ!
— Timothy Bradley Jr. (@Timbradleyjr) May 30, 2021
Andrei Ward, another 37 year-old boxer, a former light heavyweight champion who held multiple titles and retired in 2017 undefeated, likewise twitted, “My brother @Filipino Flash did it again! Congrats champion!”
My brother @filipinoflash did it again ! Congrats Champion 💪🏽.
— Andre S.O.G. Ward (@andreward) May 30, 2021
Lou DiBella, a renown boxing promoter and film producer had this for his congratulatory note to Donaire, “Congrats to the great @Filipino Flash, one of the best in #boxing…” For Robert Garcia, two-time boxing Trainer of The Year and Junior Lightweight title holder in the 1980s, “Donaire is a “Fucking legend @Filipino Flash.”
Congrats to the great @filipinoflash, one of the best in #boxing, in and out of the ring, and a future first ballot @BoxingHall of Famer.
— Lou DiBella (@loudibella) May 30, 2021
But for “old” Donaire, a compatriot, he simply did a Douglas McArthur stamp. And he did it with a “wow” by saying, “I’m back and I’m stronger than ever.”
