Nonito Donaire vs. Reymart Gaballo | Showtime - December 11, 2021

[margaret thatcher]

little caleb plant giving kud a bit of a beating in the 7th

68-64 crowley

[margaret thatcher]

more of the same

78-73 crowley

[margaret thatcher]

kud needs a miracle in the last round here

[margaret thatcher]

aside from the kd, a dominant performance from the underdog crowley

[Thomastearns]

Another good win for the cleanest, most tested boxer in the game today.

We seem to be seeing more knockouts by bodyshots these days. This could be a lesson for any upcoming boxers, but what are the optimal targets?

Perhaps Usyk could ask AJ/Fury whether they'd like one to the kidneys?

[NoScoutingReports]

Donaire is some fighter, 39 and still blasting guys out at bantamweight, fantastic left hook to the body to close the show

[ironbeard]

Donaire is the best of boxing.

[margaret thatcher]

wonder what revived nonito

[KiwiRider]

wonder what revived nonito

I wonder that too, he really doesn't have anything to prove. He has done all he can for a bloke his size.
I'd like to believe its love for the sport.
Pretty amazing little fella

[ironbeard]

wonder what revived nonito

I wonder that too, he really doesn't have anything to prove. He has done all he can for a bloke his size.
I'd like to believe its love for the sport.
Pretty amazing little fella

If anyone looked like he was fed a special PI diet it is Gaballo.

[Ruthless-RKO]

wonder what revived nonito

I wonder that too, he really doesn't have anything to prove. He has done all he can for a bloke his size.
I'd like to believe its love for the sport.
Pretty amazing little fella

Going back down a division.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Lomachenko-Commey Fight Drew Peak Audience Of 1,243,000, Averaged 1,129,000 On ESPN

Later Saturday night, Showtime’s telecast of a live tripleheader that featured Nonito Donaire drew about as well as could’ve been expected based on the extremely late start time for the main event.

Donaire’s fourth-round knockout of fellow Filipino Reymart Gaballo was watched by an average of 187,000.

The Donaire-Gaballo bout didn’t begin until 1:13 a.m. ET. The 39-year-old Donaire (42-6, 28 KOs) knocked out the previously unbeaten Gaballo (24-1, 20 KOs), the mandatory challenger for Donaire’s WBC bantamweight title, with a right hand to the body.

The co-feature of Showtime’s broadcast, Cody Crowley-Kudratillo Abdukakhorov, drew a peak viewership of 215,000.

That 10-round welterweight bout began at 12:11 a.m. ET. Crowley (20-0, 9 KOs), a southpaw from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, got up from a second-round knockdown and thoroughly out-boxed Uzbekistan’s Abdukakhorov (18-1, 10 KOs) to win a unanimous decision (98-91, 97-92, 95-94).

Nielsen’s numbers for Showtime include only those that watched live on that premium cable channel as well. Like ESPN+, ViacomCBS, which owns Showtime and BS.com, does not release its streaming numbers, which account for a significant number of viewers.

As a premium network, Showtime has slightly less than a third the number of subscribers as ESPN, a basic cable channel.

DAZN, which streamed cards from Russia and England on Saturday, doesn’t release its streaming numbers, either, nor are those figures tracked by Nielsen.