Japanese Flyweight Champions Avoiding Donaire

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JAPANESE FLYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS AVOIDING DONAIRE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 03 Jun 2008



Reigning Japanese world flyweight champions Daisuke Naito (WBC) and Takefumi Sakata (WBA) continue to avoid IBF champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire who has challenged the Japanese to a unification bout.

Donaire (19-1, 12 KO's) who won the IBF title with a smashing fifth round one-punch knockout of Australia’s Vic Darchinyan on July 7 last year and then smashed Mexico’s Luis Maldonado into submission in eight rounds last December 1 has expressed his willingness to fight the Japanese in their own hometown but there has been no response.

Instead, the two world champions are defending their titles against fellow Japanese in an obvious attempt to make sure the world titles remain in Japanese hands effectively making a mockery of the sport.

What is even worse is that Naito (32-2-3, 20 KO’s) who trained for one week at the famed ALA Gym of respected boxing patron Tony Aldeguer recently, will defend his title against countryman Tomonobu Shimizu who is not even rated in the top ten and has a record of 13-2 with 5 knockouts. WBO Asia Pacific minimum weight champion Milan Milendo and Philippine flyweight champion Rocky Fuentes gave Naito a hard time in sparring and indications are that Donaire will demolish Naito if they ever meet.

Sakata (32-4-2, 15 KO’s) will put his WBA belt on the line against another Japanese Hiroyuki Hisataka (16-6-1, 5 KO’s) who is ranked No. 3 and is coming off a recent victory over Hussein Hussein. However, Hisataka lost his three previous bouts including one to Wyndel Janiola of the Philippines.

Well-known Japanese matchmaker, boxing manager and journalist Joe Koizumi himself stated “whoever wins, the number of world bets in Japan will not change, but it might be a problem whether people love such confrontations of compatriots as they look like national title bouts though the WBC and WBA belts are at stake.”

Koizumi’s claim that “we now have seven world champions in Japan” is considered somewhat misleading because while Jorge Linares the WBC featherweight champion and Edwin Valero the WBA super featherweight champion may live in Japan, they are not Japanese.

In contrast, the Philippines has five Filipino world champions led by boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, the WBC super featherweight champion, Donaire, the IBF/IBO flyweight champion, Gerry Penalosa the WBO bantamweight champion, Donnie Nietes the WBO minimum weight champion and Florante Condes the IBF minimum weight champion.

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Koizumi’s claim that “we now have seven world champions in Japan” is considered somewhat misleading because while Jorge Linares the WBC featherweight champion and Edwin Valero the WBA super featherweight champion may live in Japan, they are not Japanese.

So true. Cuz Edwin Valero and Jorge Linares are both Venenzuelan.

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Good to see a nice, unbiased article. A journalism masterpiece.

I can't believe I wasted however long I wasted on that trash.

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What is more amazing, is why don't the to japenese fighers have not fought eachother yet.

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Good to see a nice, unbiased article. A journalism masterpiece.

I can't believe I wasted however long I wasted on that trash.

The author is bias. But he's got some good points though.

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What is more amazing, is why don't the to japenese fighers have not fought eachother yet.

They're already booked...

Daisuke Naito

Takefumi Sakata

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Imo, Donaire should get rid of dickhead Shaw and join Arum's Top Rank.

[CutMeMick]

I can't blame Sakata for taking on this opponent.
Look at his resume, look at his last opponents. Vasquez, Parra, Vasquez, Kavoichit, Yamaguchi. All top guys IMO.
So a little fight here I don't think is bad for him.

Naitos been in some tough fights with PongsaShit... and I can see why they would not want a fight right now.

Truth is Nonitos clearly being ducked.
Wonder why he doesn't try to get Narvaez to fight?
Narvaez is open...

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I think Nonito is tired of waiting at 112. He's now moving back to 115.



DONAIRE,GORRES EAGER TO FIGHT MONTIEL

By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 05 Jun 2008



Both IBF flyweight champion Nonito "The Filipino Flash" Donaire and world-rated super flyweight Z "The Dream" Gorres are eager to fight reigning WBO super flyweight champion Fernando Montiel of Mexico.


Both fighters were reacting to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum’s plan to stage a three championship fight card at the Venetian in the booming gambling enclave of Macau which has reportedly outstripped Las Vegas involving two Filipinos.

In an overseas telephone conversation with Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today, Arum said he was looking at a possible Montiel-Donaire title fight and had spoken to Donaire’s manager Cameron Dunkin and believed he could work something out with his promoter Gary Shaw. However, if that doesn’t work Arum said he’d like to stage a rematch between Gorres who lost a highly controversial decision to Montiel in February last year and the Mexican.

Donaire said "it sounds very exciting to me. This will be a good fight." Donaire said he got back into training yesterday and "although my body aches a little bit, I feel good. I train really hard and I’m happy."

He said "I am excited now that I heard about the possibility of fighting Montiel. That sounds good."

Respected Cebu boxing patron Tony Aldeguer said the ALA Gym welcomes the chance for a Gorres rematch with Montiel saying "he (Gorres) has been looking forward to it."

Aldeguer said that he and his son Michael who has assumed the mantle of the boxing business from him, had talked about the directions they want to take in the career of Gorres and one possibility was fighting Montiel. The other was a title fight against the winner between IBF champion Dimitri Kirilov and Australia’s Vic Darchinyan.

However, the word was that should Darchinyan win, promoter Shaw would want him to have a voluntary defense before a mandatory against Gorres who figured in a draw with Darchinyan in a title eliminator. On the other hand should Kirilov win he too would want to exercise the same option effectively forcing Gorres to wait.

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Also it should be noted that in Japan Only the WBC and WBA are allowed to be defended. They do not recognize that IBF. SO those guys, who fight in Japan, couldn't even unify.

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Also it should be noted that in Japan Only the WBC and WBA are allowed to be defended. They do not recognize that IBF. SO those guys, who fight in Japan, couldn't even unify.

That's fukking weird. Is that rule only applies in Japan?

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Also it should be noted that in Japan Only the WBC and WBA are allowed to be defended. They do not recognize that IBF. SO those guys, who fight in Japan, couldn't even unify.

That's fukking weird. Is that rule only applies in Japan?

Yeah, it is a rule of the Japan Boxing Commission. That would be cool if Las Vegas created a rule like that.

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i personally always thought donaire was the more complete fighter from the philipines, sorry pac fans.

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i personally always thought donaire was the more complete fighter from the philipines, sorry pac fans.

Nope. Gerry Penalosa is.

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Nonito Donaire really has an hard-on for the 2 Japanese fighters...

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