Another Filipino pride in boxing Donnie "Ahas" Nietes will put his title on the line when he faces his mexican opponent Manuel Vargas, the interim champion on July 18 in Jalisco Mexico for his third title defense of his WBO minimum weight title.
Nietes with the record of 24-1-3 with 14 by knockouts with his last fight also in Mexico winning it by unanimous decision over Erik Ramirez last February 09, 2009. In his first title defesnse he knockout his opponent Eddie Castro of Mexico on August 28, 2008 at the Waterfront hotel in Cebu City.
I search the video of the prevous fights of his opponent Vargas and one of them is the fight over Rayonata "the stringray" Whitfield . I saw how rugged fighter he was as he bombarded with tons of punches to the head and body and in the last round of the fight he just throwing punches from any directions and angles but Whitfield still manage to escape a closed decision and win the fight.
Currently Nietes is in the WildCard Gym in Los Angeles California together with AJ "Bazooka" Banal who will fight in the undercard of Mayweather-Marquez fight in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
I'm confident that still he can bring home back here in the Philippines the WBO world title belt.
After winning impressively against the WBO champion Ricky Hatton, the question is that who's next for the renowned best fighter in the planet and the pound for pound king in boxing today?
No doubt that no one can beat Manny in his weight the 140 pounds right now! the option for Manny is to move up in weight and fight the bigger names for bigger money like Shane Mosley, Miguel Cotto and Floyd Mayweather Jr., This past few weeks after the fight of Manny Pacquiao rumors heard that the next opponent of the Pacman will be the winner between the fight of Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd Mayweather Jr. this coming July. The name of Sugar Shane Mosley is also in the line to fight Pacquiao anytime in any weight after that devastating performance that he saw when Manny beat Hatton. But the top rank president Bob Arum is now negotiating the camp of Puerto Rican Boxer who is formerly with the top rank to be the next opponent of Manny Pacquiao.
With all of this prospect opponent of Manny Pacquiao, I want to see the fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Pacquiao not only on the money but the honor if who really is who the best pound for pound king of boxing. Also the money, if this fight is make to be possible maybe Pacquiao will earn double of what he got in the fight with Hatton. The weight and the size is not that disadvantage for Manny, he is only two inches shorter and eight pounds lighter compare to Mayweather. I don't want Manny to fight either the two Mosley or Cotto, why? Oh! come on Mosley is a fighting at the weight class of 154 pounds his too big for Manny and even he will goes down in weight of 144 pounds still Manny can't handle those punches of Mosley. Just look at what happened to bigger Antonio Margarito he was crashed by the punches of Mosley, I don't want it to happen to Manny. Same as with Cotto, he is bigger stronger and a very clever boxer and if he pursue to fight this two it might be the downfall of his career.