Donaire may have weighed 130 lbs for Narvaez fight
October 23rd, 2011
By Chris Williams: Photo credit: Sumio Yamada – Although WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (27-1, 18 KO’s) weighed in at 116 lbs for his fight against super flyweight Omar Narvaez (35-1-2, 19 KO’s) last Saturday night at the MSG – WaMu Theater, New York, New York, Donaire may have weighed in as much as 130 pounds after re-hydrating after the weigh-in. In other words, Donaire may have been the size of a super featherweight against a super flyweight.
Donaire basically looked like a super featherweight against Narvaez, which would mean Donaire was weighing in at three divisions above the bantamweight division in a fight against a small super flyweight. Donaire’s promoter Bob Arum wants to move Donaire up to super bantamweight after this fight to fight both Jorge Arce and Toshiaki Nishioka in 2012.
Those two fights will take up much of 2012, and will take Donaire into his 29th birthday. Presumably if Donaire can win those fights and look good in doing so, Arum will then move Donaire up to featherweight. However, Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa will likely have moved up to super featherweight by then.
The only other good fighter at featherweight is Orlando Salido, the WBO featherweight champion. Arum probably won’t ever match Donaire against Salido for a couple of reasons. First of all, Salido would beat Donaire every day of the week including Sunday. But the other reason is Salido doesn’t fight for Top Rank, and Arum probably want to sacrifice Donaire to a non-Top Rank fighter like Salido. Donaire will then probably waste another year facing anyone but Salido at featherweight before moving up to super featherweight and getting knocked out by either Gamboa or Lopez.
We saw pretty clearly that Donaire isn’t a big puncher at 130 lbs, and that he would be in deep, deep trouble against quality super featherweights like Gamboa and Lopez.
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I agree with the author’s points on weight disparity. As long as we continue with this stupid rule of weighing in the day before instead of the day of the fight, we’ll have these gross mismatches. When a welterweight fights a middleweight, and the middleweight wins, what does that prove? Is it fair for a natural welterweight who gains a couple of pounds the day of the fight to go in against a rehydrated middleweight that dried out to the welterweight limit the day before? Hell no! Bring back fair contests. Weigh in the day of the fight!
So he was 12 pounds over the limit on fight night? Thats no big deal.
these elf fights are child abuse.
Chris Williams also says it is ok for Martinez to fight Pacquiao at 154 weight limit ,witch of course means that Marvella will be over 160 on fight night, so talk about doulbe standards!
@DAN WINSTON…SO THAT MEANS…”"U LOVE BORING FIGHTERS”"….DAMN JOKE
a win is a win… I like Donaire
big deal, if he was 150lbs it would be!
I imagine his “one punch KO power” isn’t going to be so effective when he moves to 126+. The same punch he knocked out Darchinyan and Montiel with won’t work on JuanMa and Gamboa.
carrying extra pixie elf dust.
You keep on saying that against Pac, that all hes opponent was weight drains and then they goes way over the limit by the day of the fights and still lost to Pac, Now you are saying that Donaire is weight drains and its not okay. WTF.