Donald had excellent skills & a very good chin. What he lacked was a mean streak. He had some decent pop in his punches when he'd set down on his shots but he rarely did it. He was more often than not content to just box his way to a points win.
I thought they put him in with Bowe too soon & I never forgave Bowe for that unprovoked slap. That was some bullying bullshit & I hate bullies. But to his credit, the Bowe loss didn't seem to affect Donald too badly as he rebounded with an impressive winning streak until he lost to Kirk Johnson. Then not long after that, he suffered the only inside the distance loss of his career when Vitali Klitschko stopped him in ten rounds.
The highlight of his career happened next though when he thoroughly outboxed Evander Holyfield a year later. That should have led to bigger & better things but he followed it up with a dismal performance that ended in a draw with Ray Austin. Which derailed all the progress he'd made with the Holyfield win. It was filled by two losses. One to Nikolay Valuev in a fight that he should have won but the fight was in Europe & he lost a majority decision. I think that took all the remaining desire that he had from him as in his next fight he just went through the motions in getting shut out by Alexander Povetkin. After which he retired.
All things considered though, he did all right in compiling a record of 42-5-3 (24 KOs ). It's just a shame that he lost most of his biggest fights & was never able to turn that Holyfield victory into anything.
