Comments Thread For: Donaire is Ready For The Big Stage Against Montiel

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Manny Pacquiao was just another regular hustling, bustling super-featherweight in June 2007, when Nonito Donaire knocked out Vic Darchinyan in sensational fashion to claim the IBF flyweight title.

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[cubano11]

i have 2 mllions on Donaire......

[I_like_wendys]

Can't wait for this fight

[jabjab]

What a fight! can't wait. hope it will last at least 5 rounds.

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Manny Pacquiao was just another regular hustling, bustling super-featherweight in June 2007, when Nonito Donaire knocked out Vic Darchinyan in sensational fashion to claim the IBF flyweight title.

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It wouldn't surprise me at all to see Montiel a slight favorite.

People are definitely under-rating him on this site.

But Nonito should be right in this, I think he's ready to go.

I am seriously lookin forward to this fight.

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What a fight! can't wait. hope it will last at least 5 rounds.

I'm hiring a colostomy bag, I aint missing a second of this fight

[bluetuazon]

should be a great weekend....this is what boxing needs...

[Pullcounter]

can't this weekend come any faster?

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It's almost here.. gonna be a good fight. It's a pick'em fight IMO.. Donaire has the height/better skills. But Montiel is a smart/powerful boxer-puncher. He picks his shots well. One wrong move by Donaire.. it can be lights out.

Not to mention Jones/Soto-Karass rematch..

[grayfist]

I'm not too sure about the accuracy and appropriateness of the "just hustling and bustling" characterization. The Pacquiao that was seen at that stage (mid-2007) had already won world championships in 3 divisions and one "International" title in another, beaten a Mexican legend in Barrera, held Marquez to a draw, lost, then, avenged that loss to another Mexican legend in Erik Morales and was at the top half of every Pound for Pound list put out by respected boxing organizations, publications and pundits.

That's tantamount to calling Michael Jackson nothing more than "a feet-shuffling singer" after he added singles and albums such as "Got To Be There", "Ben", "Off The Wall" and "Forever, Michael" to his discography and into popular culture.

For Michael, "Thriller" and "Bad" were still forthcoming at that stage, just as Marquez II, Barrera II, De La Hoya, Hatton, Cotto...were for Pacquiao in 2007 but "Thriller", "Bad" and all those that came later, simply confirmed Michael's greatness as did those later fights, Pacquiao's.