Donaire vs. Narvaez this Saturday night
October 17th, 2011
By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) makes what will likely be his first and last title defense of his WBC/WBO belts this Saturday night against the 5’3″ Omar Narvaez (35-0-2, 19 KO’s) at the WaMu Theatwer in New York, New York.
I guess this is the best Donaire’s promoters could and that’s very sad. You never like to see fights between guys much fighters taking on smaller ones from divisions below them. Donaire is 5’7″ and will have a four inch height and likely reach advantage against the smallish Narvaez.
Narvaez’s record looks impressive but there’s not much quality to speak of when you look at who he’s actually fought to get to where he’s at. It’s mostly B and C level from Narvaez’s home country of Argentina.
After Donaire beats Narvez, Donaire will be moving up to super bantamweight to fight WBO champion Jorge Arce. Even that fight isn’t interesting because is only 5’4″, and will be a lot shorter than Donaire. I like the fight a lot better than Donaire-Narvaez but it fails to grab me because it’s another mismatch. Arce is too small, too weak and too slow. He’ll get beaten.
Donaire will also likely be fighting WBC super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka next year. Even that’s a mismatch. Nishioka doesn’t stand a chance against Donaire, as he’s also short, slow and old. I want to see Donaire in with Yuriorkis Gamboa and Juan Manuel Lopez next year, but Donaire’s promoter Bob Arum likely won’t want to put Donaire in fights that he stands a good chance of losing.
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I am a fan o Donaire. But I agree with Chrissy… Donaire is taller than Pacquiao. Maybe he can beat good guys of his size… If Arum wants it too.
donaire move slowly but surely guys, i think narvaes he did not survive with the left of donaire….
Chris.. you really like writing stupid things… You know what.. there is also mismatch among writers in this site… You have no match with the others because your brain is only a pea size… You will always be the underdog in terms of writing… you have to practice more….
It’s funny you criticize Donaire for fighting shorter guys when the “Motor City Cobra” just got inducted in the IBHOF. Hearns is 6’1″ & had size advantage over most of his opponents. Some he beat (Cuevas, Benitez & Duran). Some he didn’t (Leonard, Hagler). Chris in this computer age, it’s time for you to get some boxing knowledge. Please….
Fraud will KO chrissy so that he will bend his kness and take the Fraud juice.LOL
hahahaha,,,,thats a good idea tyler !!! donaire vs williams ….
hey williams why dont you fight donaire instead..
oh wait that will also be a mismatch since donaire’s intelligent young fighter while you are _____ ok, you fill in the blanks
lol
wee elf fight no interest get in for 1/2 price half men fighting.
Garbageman writing garbage, thought so,,,,,,,,Why won’t he just collect them instead of writing them garbage!!! Damn!
even if your small but your good you can beat the bigger guys look at manny pacquiao he weather the storm and beat the bigger guys
feel sad about mayweather vs ortiz fight 4000 seat not taken and the worst is they expect the PPV to be 1.7M and it turn out only 850,000 added with a cheap shot what will happen next to mayweather fight i think 500,000 PPV
munchkin elf midget fight who cares 10 year old kids fighting at school.
I cant stand hearing about this fight and I dont know how Donaire got in the top 5 p4p. And ya’ll need to stop calling people filipino haters just because they tell the truth.
Arum is going to milk Donaire.
Rigondeaux fight will marinate, just like the JuanMa vs Gamboa fight
i think donaire shoud fight the 2 olimpic gold medalist,wba interim 122 champ guillermo el chacal rigondeaux. then it woud not be a mismatch. rigo fights for top rank too,thats the fight.
you dont want a mismatch fight, but then again you want manny pacquia to fight martinez? is this not a mismatch for you? or exactly you brain is in your nuts
Why dont Vitali or wladimir that is most interesting match against Donaire and KO vitali with a cheap shot
Didn’t donaire only just move up???
Chris has no brain… he just want to make people angry…but ot shows his brain…its full of gelatin…
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Again Cris Williams insulting another filipino fighter, Congrats Chrissy the sissy!!!
I’m glad somebody is pointing this out but boxing writers need to call out Top Rank and Golden Boy for these kind of mismatches.
he could have had a fight with Moreno but Arum wasn’t hearing that and low balled him. so instead of fighting a good bantamweight in Chemito Moreno, we get to see this garbage instead.
This is what Top Rank does. Nonito will continue to fight smaller guys or guys he has the advantage over until Arum can make money of a Gamboa vs Donaire fight down the line, probably in 2013. Bob Arum doesn’t care about the garbage he tosses us until we start to clamour for big fights, then he puts it on PPV and charges us.
dude gamboa and lopez are monsters of featherweights. i agree the narvaez fight is a mismatch. its ok for donaire to fight 2 super bantamweight champs before he takes on lopez and gamboa so he’s body wont be shocked at featherweright division esp if he’ll fight those two beasts..