Nonito Donaire is damn good. So good nobody wants to fight him and he is left with upstarts and journeymen to keep in shape and busy.
Donaire is also too tall and too talented to continue to linger around the flyweight and bantamweight classes which unfortunately are divisions less attractive for pay per view cards.
He has to move up in weight ? at the very least the featherweight divisions where competition could land him in many good money fights.
Forget about Vic Darhcinyan. The Armenian is simply too scared to get knocked out again by Donaire?s left hook.
I doubt Fernando Montiel will be willing to climb up the ring against Donaire and risk his title.
Time is running out for Donaire to cash in on his lofty rankings as one of boxing?s best pound for pound king.
He should leap to the featherweight (super bantamweight) class where a potential title fight with Thailand?s Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym looms in the horizon or seek Rafael Marquez at bantamweight if Montiel will dodge him.
The featherweight class is now one of boxing?s big ticket divisions where Chris John and Juan Manuel Lopez are making waves.
I believe the 27-year Donaire, like Manny Pacquiao can carry his punches as he moves up the ladder. Time for him to bulk up as age is becoming his worse enemy.
The competition in the super flyweight is simply too afraid of him.
It?s time for the Filipino Flash to call out names.
In two years, Pacquiao will fade into the horizon, perhaps earlier if Floyd Mayweather Jr continues to duck the reigning pound for pound king.
With the imminent retirement of Gerry Pe?alosa and the successive failures of Filipino prospects to capture or defend their world crowns, only Donaire is left behind to carry the torch of Filipino excellence in professional boxing.
Donaire is not wanting in experience and skills. He also has a fairly recognizable name recall and is only a couple or two of HBO PPV headliner before he becomes a very marketable boxer.
His advantage over Manny Pacquiao is that he is articulate in his adopted language ? English, having lived in the United States since he was seven years old.
Donaire, at the rate he is fighting, has at least three more years to carve out a name in the featherweight class and even in the super featherweight division.
There will never be another Pacquiao but a Filipino Flash could be next big thing in Philippine boxing.
