By Jim Dower: The match-up between WBA super flyweight interim champion Nonito Donaire (23-1, 15 KO’s) and Hernan Marquez (27-1, 20 KO’s) is another in a lone-line of dull fights for Donaire in the past three years of his career. On Saturday night, Doniare, 27, will be likely fighting for the last time at super flyweight when he takes on the seemingly badly over-matched Marquez at the Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot, San Juan, Puerto Rico. What makes the fight really hard to stomach is that Donaire’s opponent, the 21-year-old Marquez, was totally dominated in his last fight against Richie Mepranum in a 10 round decision loss in March.

That’s really brilliant that Marquez, after that loss, was picked out as Marquez’s opponent rather than someone more deserving. Thankfully, the Donaire-Marquez fight won’t be shown on pay-per-view because that would be a huge tragedy to have to pay to watch Donaire beat a fighter that is coming off of a one-sided loss. But you have to wonder what a win over Marquez will prove for Donaire. What is the big plus on beating a fighter that was totally dominated in his last fight by Mepranum?

How is this fight something that will help Donaire’s career? Marquez is a plodder with good power, but a fighter with limited movement and very limited experience against quality fighters. Marquez was stepping it up in his last fight against Mepranum, and as we saw, Marquez got slapped down quite easily. I, for one, am really looking forward to Donaire getting his career in motion and coming out of the three-year blackhole that he’s been in since his win over Vic Darchinyan in 2007.

Donaire has talked about wanting to fight WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel in the near future. Let’s hope so. It’s about time. At least we’d learn if Donaire has the talent to beat the better fighters in boxing instead of the guys that has been fed to him since his one triumph over Darchinyan. From the looks of it, Donaire will probably keep moving up in weight until he runs into a fighter or a series of opponents that are simply too big and too powerful for him. It could be that Montiel will be that fighter. If so, then Donaire is going to have to get his weight and under control and move back down in weight and start going after the best fighters that somehow have eluded him for the past three years of his career. But as far as Saturday night’s fight against Marquez, I see it as a total waste of time for Donaire.