Nonito Donaire’s loss to Carl Frampton via a shutout decision at Belfast over the weekend is another sad case of an elite fighter reaching a point of decline.

For much of the fight, Donaire was slow, no longer had fearsome power, and lacked perfect timing in losing to Frampton, whom I still cannot consider to be an elite fighter. Frampton won the interim World Boxing Organization world featherweight title by beating Donaire.

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