THE GLIMPSE OF A DREAM
THERE isn’t a couple in boxing like Rachel and Nonito Donaire. Over the past decade Nonito has been one of the world’s most successful fighters. Rachel is also unique. She is his wife, his manager and now his head trainer. Once Nonito demolished Nordine Oubaali in May to win the WBC bantamweight belt, Rachel became the first female trainer to guide a male boxer to win a major WBC title.
Boxing is an industry dominated by men and Rachel’s expanding role in the sport has not exactly been celebrated. She’s had public arguments with rival managers and abuse on social media is sadly hard to escape. “It does get to me, I’m not going to say it doesn’t. My kids are at this point now where my eldest, he searches us on the internet so he sees these things that people are saying or they’re writing or the videos on Youtube, and they ask. But really at the end of the day once I start taking apart every one of these people, there are some really bad insecurities because of what they’re doing. I’m the easiest target so they’re going to come after me. I believe in karma. I believe eventually it’ll all come out. I’m not the bad one in the game,” she told Boxing News. “Because we’re in such an electronic world that you can see everything, when you ask someone a direct question and instead they throw insults at you, it kind of just shows their maturity level and how insecure in the actual argument of the topic.”
“When my wife starts to feel the disrespect then that’s when I start to get all fired up. I don’t get mad a lot but when I do, I get fired up like crazy,” Nonito notes. “When it comes down to
