Nonito Donaire Running out of Quality Opponents

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  1. Realspitts

    Realspitts Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Nonito Donaire, Jr. was scheduled to face Mexican Fernando Montiel in a WBO super flyweight championship, but things went sour when Montiel could not make the weight limit anymore. The replacement was announced to be Puerto Rican Jose “Carita” Lopez (38-7-1) for the world title vacated by Montiel who went on to the bantamweight division.

    But again promoter Bob Arum was beaten in booking Lopez to face Donaire as he was already slated to fight Thailand’s Promuansak Posuwan for Montiel’s vacant title. Posuwan is the top contender for the crown and Lopez is the ideal opponent in vying for the title.

    Donaire then would not relinquish his IBF and IBO flyweight titles and instead would fight Mexican Eric Ortiz (30-8-2, 19 KOs) for his title defense. Ortiz, 31 years old, lost by an 8th round TKO to Z “The Dream” Gorres on August 11, 2007 in the Philippines vs. Mexico “World Cup of Boxing.” Also Ortiz lost by a 6th round TKO to Victor Zaleta on September 29, 2007.

    Donaire wants to fight big name boxers. On his gigantic triumph against Darchinyan he said, “The victory was something I will never forget. It was an amazing experience. But I still have to beat the guys that he beat. I feel like deep inside I can beat them. I think I can beat guys like (Cristian) Mijares and Montiel, I just have to prove it in the ring.”

    But his dream of facing quality opponents like Mijares and Montiel still lies in the horizon. Mijares is slated to face undefeated Venezuelan Nehomar Cermeno.
     
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  2. champianboxer

    champianboxer Mr Boingo Full Member

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    he needs to move up to lightweight, hes big enough
     
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  3. imp4pdabest

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    Yeah, it sounds easy when you're not the one who's actually out there fighting & training.
     
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  4. dangerousity

    dangerousity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Donaire vs Mijares is still a very lucrative fight.
     
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  5. Monstar

    Monstar The Future.. Full Member

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    This ain't looking good at the rate he's going he won't get anyndecent fights till years for now...sumbody needs to step up to the plate
     
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  6. JMP

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    in the mean time he should stay active and keep winning. he'll get a big fight sooner or later.
     
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  7. imp4pdabest

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    :good Mijares just needs to get a win to bounce back.
     
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  8. asero

    asero Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    he can always chase montiel..if donaire-montiel and close their deal then darchinyan would be the one losing quality opponents
     
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  9. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Too bad for Donaire, I mean it's a waste of a great talent. In the last 18 months Arum managed to kill the momentum that was built on the Darchinyan win, and in 2009, Nonito brings too little to the table for big names and networks. Montiel-Donaire would have been an excelellent title fight and an 'eliminator' for undisputed champion Darchinyan, but that fight never happened. I wonder how Arum managed to f*ck that up. :-(
     
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  10. MexicanJew

    MexicanJew Jajajajajaja Full Member

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    Donaire has a hard time cutting weight to make 112. He actually fought the majority of his career fights at 115 and some at 118.

    He would have no issue moving up to 115 to fight Montiel, or rematch Darchinyan.
     
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  11. PH|LLA

    PH|LLA VIP Member Full Member

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    he's still young. His career will pick up.

    One thing about Donaire is that when people see him fight, they wanna see him again. His career will just get better and better
     
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  12. Sister Sledge

    Sister Sledge Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Why doesn't he just clean out his division or face Vic again?
     
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  13. Monstar

    Monstar The Future.. Full Member

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    I hope so....
     
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  14. o_money

    o_money Boxing Junkie banned

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    Right now he's a talented fish in a talent rich pool. He needs a tier two promoter like the Duva's or Goosen that will give will put more effort into him. Arum has a history of getting bad paydays and little exposure for the lighter wieghts. He (arum) just has too many big fish to look after to really give donaire what he needs.
     
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  15. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yeah. I see Donaire's decision to leave Shaw backfiring here. One thing you can't take away from Shaw: when Darchinyan asked/demanded, he negotiated and put on Kirilov, Mijares, Arce.
     
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