GLENN DONAIRE IN GREAT SHAPE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 12 Dec 2007
Glenn Donaire, the elder brother of IBF/IBO flyweight champion Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire is in great shape for his scheduled December 20 clash with Mexican Tirso Gutierrez Morales at the Hard Rock Caf? in Las Vegas.
This was the assessment of his father/trainer Nonito Donaire Sr in an overseas telephone conversation with Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today in which he noted that Glenn who turned 28 last December had "trained for almost one year.?
In his last fight on October 7, 2006 Donaire lost by a sixth round technical decision to then world champion Vic Darchinyan when he suffered a broken jaw and couldn?t continue. Glenn Donaire?s younger brother Nonito avenged that defeat with a smashing fifth round KO of the cocky Australian last July7.
Glenn Donaire has a record of 16-3-1 with 9 knockouts while his opponent Morales has a record of 10-3 with 6 knockouts with all three defeats significantly coming by way of knockouts.
Just like Donaire, Morales has also had a long layoff with his last recorded fight on December 8, 2006 when he lost by a first round KO to Juanito Hernandez in a battle for the vacant North American Boxing Federation minimum weight title.
Glenn Donaire also lost by a first round TKO to Z ?The Dream? Gorres on March 19, 2005 on the undercard of the first encounter between Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao and Erik "El Terrible" Morales at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Gorres is scheduled to clash with Darchinyan in an IBF super flyweight eliminator on February 2 at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu.
The bout between world-rated Gorres who is a stylish southpaw and the tough Darchinyan who recently won the IBO super flyweight crown with a twelfth round TKO over rugged but ungainly Federico Catubay is expected to be a thrilling encounter with an exciting clash of styles between a superb boxer and an out-and-out slugger.
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