HOT POTATO from Long Beach’s Armchair – Let us not lost objectivity under the spin of Nonito Donaire, Jr.’s fight against Omar Andres Narvaez of Argentina, at this time, when predicting the outcome this Saturday, October 22, at the Madison Square Garden in New York. Take these two correlated remarks: Narvaez (35-0-2) cannot play rock n’ roll over Donaire, Jr. (26-1-0) and, vice versa, Donaire, Jr. has much less to rock about over Narvaez.
What do these two lines of assertion mean?
Narvaez, running 37, who is a clear legitimate superflyweight, has just become a bantamweight fighter and will step into the ring for the first time after 11 years of being a professional boxer rocking fellow “midgets in the lower bracket”, so to speak, and now up for the bantamweight match against the naturally big, taller and a lot younger bouncher of the lower division. Like Tigger of Winnie The Pooh, Donaire, Jr., 27, has been hopping in the confines of flyweight (112) superflyweight (115) and bantamweight (118) for more than a decade since his first professional fight in 2001 and would just be toying his opponent come fight night. The too fast, too stylish, too powerful and too intelligent and yet too tall and too young rising Filipino star would just be too much for ‘El Hurican’ of Argentina. Narvaez stands 5’3″ versus Donaire, 5’6″.
