CEBU CITY ? Mexican challenger Moises Fuentes has been telling almost everyone who cared to listen how his long trip from the other side of the ocean would bear fruit Saturday night at the Waterfront Hotel-Lahug.
Since arriving in the country a week ago, Fuentes has exuded the level of confidence that elite fighters have going into a big fight, leaving Filipino champion Donnie ?Ahas? Nietes looking as though his reign as WBO 108-lb king is coming to a violent end.
?I didn?t come all the way from Mexico to lose,? said Fuentes. ?I came to win.?
But Nietes has kept his mouth shut despite Fuentes? bold words, assuring his followers and the highly-discriminating Cebu fight fans that he?ll take care of business in this 18th edition of the immensely-popular Pinoy Pride boxing series.
During the official weighin held Friday, the 31-year-old Nietes didn?t appear to be bothered and cowed by his 26-year-old rival.
?Let?s see,? said Nietes after coming in at 108 lbs, the same numbers posted on the scale by Fuentes.
Nietes (31-1-0 with 17 knockouts) is slightly favored to repulse Fuentes (26-1, 20 knockouts) and among the bigwigs expected to be at ringside will be Marco Antonio Barrera, who arrived Barrera, now retired, is best known by Filipinos as the Mexican legend who lost twice to Manny Pacquiao.
