GUASAVE, Sinaloa, Mexico — Filipino WBO minimumweight champion Donnie ‘Ahas’ Nietes (pictured) appears relaxed as he reads a local newspaper during breakfast Saturday morning at El Sembrador Hotel here where he is billeted. Periodico ‘El Debate’ is doing a 2-page feature of Nietes’s title defense with hometown boy Mario ‘El Dragoncito’ Rodriguez tonight (Sunday morning in Manila) at Auditorio Luis Estrada Medina here. This is Nietes’s fourth defense of the title he won in 2007, the third time he is defending it inside Mexico. Photo by Dong Secuya.
