Saturday, October 22, 2011
"Replay is now available of the last Saturday, October 22, 2011 fight of Nonito Donaire and Omar Narvaez for WBO/WBC's Unified Bantamweight Title."
This Saturday, October 22, 2011, get ready for WBO and WBC's Bantamweight Championship fight of Nonito Donaire and Omar Narvaez at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
For more, here's a little chronicle about the two strong fighters who are now ready to face the challenge of WBO and WBC Bantamweight title of the world:
Omar Narvaez is 36-years old and guess what, he never lost a professional fight at least once. He is a southpaw who turned to professional boxing way back in December 2000 next to his fight in the 1996 as well 2000 Olympics where he lost to Mehdi Assous and Wladimir Sidorenko, respectively, both in the 2nd round. Omar accumulated a record of 35-0-2 (19 K.O.'s). He won the WBO Flyweight title 9-years ago from Adonis Rivas before moving up last May to win the WBO Super Flyweight title from Everth Briceno. However, no one of his opponents are too recognizable. All of his fights took place in Argentina except for three way back in France and one each in Spain as well in Italy. This will be his American fight.
According to the recent interview of Nonito Donaire, "Omar is a tremendous fighter. He is an experienced one, has great heart and knows how to win. You may not know who he is but he has a good track record for being a champion."
The trainer (Robert Garcia) of Nonito also noted: "We know that Omar is a great champion and his record shows it. Now he is moving up in weight just like Nonito. He is very well prepared mentally and physically. He wanted to accomplish what Nonito has been doing. Nonito knows that we are in a good fight. He's going to be in there giving his heart in the ring."
Donaire is said to be having some problems making the 118-pound limit. He worked out Thursday evening at the Affinia Hotel Gym, located across the street from Madison Square Garden on Seventh Ave. Both Donaire and Narvaez worked out at the hotel gymnasium last night – with Narvaez shadowboxing inside the gym, while Donaire, the champion, did his shadowboxing drills in the hallway outside the gym. Narvaez also did some running on the treadmill.
And guess what, this will be the final fight of Nonito for the Bantamweight division and next he will possibly challenge the WBO 122 pound champion Jorge Arce as early of 2012, but of course, he need to win the Saturday, October 22, 2011 fight.