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If Rachel Donaire is a manager, then I’m an astronaut

I hesitate to criticize someone who is relatively new to the busted beak business, meaning boxing, but in the case of Rachel Marcial Donaire, I will have to make an exception.

I found the Twitter like updates on Rachel and Nonito Donaire, her boxer hubby, compelling as transmitted by our Naptown boxing-MMA Examiner Dennis Guillermo.

Here is how the actual entry looked”

12:10 pm – Nonito sits in interview with Larry Merchant and Brian Viloria.

This may come as major news to Al Bernstein, who was head of the “Pinoy Power 2” broadcast troika. He worked with Viloria and song and dance man Mario Lopez.

I can understand how easy it is to confuse one elderly white man for another. I do it all the time. Just the other I called my own brother Joe by the name of Ted Kennedy.

Lopez, other than using the term “tough customer” 769 times to describe a fighter, was not especially annoying except when stepping on Viloria’s lines.

But HBO announcer Merchant wasn’t even in Vegas let alone working behind the mike for Uncle Bob Arum.

If Rachel Marcial Donaire is a boxing manager, then I am an astronaut.

Is that NASA calling on Line 2?

I dare say that Jin Mosley could teach Rachel the difference between a left hook and a balut hook.

Not to mention that someone needs to tell Mrs. Donaire about the concealed weapons statue in Nevada.

Ah, Nevada, a state where there is no such thing as syntax.

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