Donaire KOs Fernando Montiel
EX-CHAMP’S KIDS IN HBO SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEKEND
Los Angeles, CA– Some of us produce offspring with great promise, some simply do not produce at all. It is a product of a natural process, chemical properties copied within our genes, divided into reproductions of identical portraits. They may look alike, but they surely don’t fight alike. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. will share a fight card together this coming Saturday, February 4, in San Antonio, Texas.
DOORS OPEN EASIER FOR THOSE WITH FAMOUS NAMES
It’s very accommodating for any athlete to begin their career with the help of their given name from a renowned prizefighter. Will their kinship influence a clear road for certain prosperity? Probably not, yet the name could help accumulate large purses and until they are exposed in the ring. Both juniors are very good fighters, they hit hard, are fun to watch and have likeable personalities. Still, when you compare them to their dad’s, well they have the same blood, but at this point little more.
STARTING WITH CHAVEZ JR. FIRST
Chavez Jr. (40-0-1, 31 KOs) hasn’t lost a contest, with the exception of a draw back in 2005 and that was to Carlos Molina, who is now a top ten super welterweight (154 lbs). Chavez Jr. doesn’t carry the same frame as the great J.C. Superstar. He is taller at 6′ feet and bigger seeing he is a full fledged middleweight (160) that enters the ring as a cruiserweight circa 180 lbs.
CHAVEZ JR. LEARNING ON THE JOB
So while they’re not mirror images, the kid has replicated his father’s left hook to the liver and that’s not a bad thing. From what I can see, he has the right tools and will gain more exposure with fight fans than the Vazquez kid. Chavez Jr. will be facing a hard-hitting veteran in Marco Antonio Rubio (53-5, 46 KOs) in defense of his WBC title, the belt the Mexico City based sanctioning mob snatched away from the real World middleweight king Sergio Martinez in order to give Chavez false ring prominence.
VAZQUEZ JR. KNOCKED OUT IN LAST FIGHT BY SMALLER JORGE ARCE
Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (21-1, 18 KOs), is the son of former three-time division champ, Wilfredo Vazquez Sr., who also trains him. The kid is a late-bloomer in boxing, and the lack of amateur experience may have facilitated his only loss to Jorge Arce, dropping the WBO 122 lb. trinket in the process. Five months after this Jr. came back with a KO 3 over semi-stiff Roberto Carlos Leyva.
THE REAL BOXING STAR ON THE HBO SHOW!
As the saying goes, “Big things come in small packages,” which holds true among the games best bantamweight (118) in Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire. This commodity is being marketed in hopes of the ultimate prize, another superlative Filipino icon like Manny Pacquiao. Donaire (27-1, 18 KOs) epitomizes everything a fighter should be. Donaire came to the attention of fight fans with a left hook that put Vic Darchinyan down so hard in round five that Vic denied being knocked down, let alone being concussed.
NONITO DONAIRE DUPLICATED DARCHINYAN KO LAST YEAR
Last February, Nonito (also a Jr.) gained additional glory with another single-left hook that sent Fernando Montiel into convulsions in round two. Since then, “The Filipino Flash” shutout a reluctant unbeaten (now 35-1) pug in Omar Narvaez. Because of a contract dispute with promoter Bob Arum, Donaire was on the sidelines a good percentage of 2011. But with challengers like IBF guy Abner Mares (23-0-1, 13 KOs) and Anselmo Moreno (32-1-1, 18 KOs) at 118, some may wonder if Donaire might be running away from the bantamweight division.
DONAIRE “CHERRY PICKING” LIKE MANNY PACQUIAO?
Now that he is rising in four pounds in weight to super bantamweight. Should Donaire starch the supposedly weight drained Vazquez, he is said to want no part of WBA 122 lb. counterpart unbeaten (9-0, 7 KOs) Guillermo Rigondeaux, the two-time Olympic Gold Medal winner from Cuba as he plans a move to 126 should he win Saturday. Nonito appears to be the most talented fighter on the Saturday night HBO broadcast, but is Vazquez a true barometer for “The Filipino Flash” at 122?
Dominic Verdin