By Esteban Garduno: Instead of taking on another miniature fighter like Manuel Vargas or beatable opponent like Gerson Guerrero, Nonito Donaire (23-1, 15 KO’s) needs to give a rematch with super flyweight contender Rafael Concepcion (13-4-1, 8 KO’s). Donaire defeated Concepcion by a 12 round decision in August 2009, and looked horrible in doing so, taking a lot of punishment from Concepcion all the way through the fight. Donaire looked especially unimpressive in the last four rounds as he ran from Concepcion and looked to be just trying o survive the fight.

Concepcion looked like a bull as he roughed the skinny stork-looking Donaire up with heavy shots. I scored the fight a 12 round draw, but Donaire being the more popular fighter, won the fight by a 12 round decision. Donaire moved up in weight from the flyweight division to take the fight against Concepcion, but I was shocked at how awful Donaire looked.

And I was really unimpressed with the matching of Donaire recently with Vargas, a fighter form the minimumweight class. Donaire looked like Klitschko facing a welterweight. It was such a bad match-up and naturally, Donaire took the much smaller Vargas out without too many problems. That was a total waste of a fight if you ask me. I still can’t believe that fight was the main event in the Latin Fury card.

But before I see Donaire in a rematch with Vic Darchinyan or in a fight against someone like Fernando Montiel, who I highly doubt they’ll put Donaire in with, I want to see Donaire prove that he can beat Concepcion conclusively. What I saw was Donaire taking a ton of punishment in that fight, running like crazy and doing nothing offensively. Donaire’s punches had no effect on the bull like Concepcion and he found himself in a real fight for a change.