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Move on and up in weight Nonito By Epifanio M. Almeda PhilBoxing.com Sun, 09 May 2010  Nonito Donaire?s wait for Vic Darchinyan to man up and take a great risk to lose his 115-lb belts proved detrimental to Nonito?s own time table to collect titles in weight divisions. While it is understandable for the ?Filipino Flash? to be not satisfied with his WBA 115-lb interim championship, he has to just accept it. What can he do if the regular and super champions in the division do not want to fight him? Weight and age are catching up on you Nonito. You have nothing to prove at super-flyweight anyway. You?ve knocked out Darchinyan at the time when he was still undefeated and looked invincible at flyweight. Your win was not a fluke. People who question the win need only to review the less than 5-round fight. Vic was no match for you. And Vic has been defeated by Joseph Agbeko at bantamweight when he tried to avoid you as you left the 112-lb division to be in his. You were confident in facing and beating the then fearsome bully Darchinyan in your first fight. How much more confident you would be to face a Darchinyan now with two losses? Darchinyan did not fear you in your first fight. He fears you now and just fight you through empty boasts. The fight in the ring is not going to happen. And Gary Shaw is just backing up his word also. As long as he has a say, there will be no Donaire-Darchinyan II. Don?t covet Darchinyan?s two 115-lb belts. While you hold a lesser title of interim, you have on record a devastating win over the regular (or is he the super?) belt holder, albeit, at flyweight. Your win over Vic landed you in the elite Pound for Pound list while dropping him out of it. Your win over super bantamweight Rafael Concepcion (he was 119-lbs at weigh-in) was a mountain of a challenge. Concepcion was not an easy opponent having scored a KO win over AJ Banal. By scoring KO?s over your title challengers, Vic has made up his mind not to face you again in the ring. Go up to bantamweight and fight Fernando Montiel if the latter looks for a challenging fight. If Montiel does not make himself available, Anselmo Moreno or Yonnhy Perez would be good fights. After winning a title or two at 118-lbs, and you have the tools to do it, move up again the ladder of success to realize your dreams of following the trail blazed by Manny Pacquiao. It?s not wrong to emulate the great Pacquiao. By the way, Vic Darchinyan is also moving up again to bantamweight. But you have no reason to fight him as you had at 115-lbs because of his title belts. Even if Vic wins a bantamweight belt, don?t be fooled again to chase a fight with him. If at bantamweight Vic would again beat his drums announcing his readiness to fight you as he has done of late, don?t mind him. You?ll be wasting precious time and opportunities as you already did. Just move on and up in weight Nonito. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Epifanio M. Almeda.  |
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