Nietes on target for 4th title defense
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr.
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 09 Aug 2010
WBO minimumweight champion Donnie ?Ahas? Nietes is looking sharp at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles with less than one week away from his August 14 (August 15 R.P. Time) title defense against Mario ?Dragoncito? Rodriguez of Mexico.
Trainer Edito Villamor updated this writer through e-mail that Nietes is focused and determined to win for the third time in Mexico. Villamor said that Nietes weighed 108 lbs last Saturday, just three pounds over the limit, which is just right as he guarantees that the defending champ will hit 105 lbs. during the official weigh-in one day before the fight.
The 28 year old Nietes (26W-1L-3D, 15 KO?s) won the vacant WBO title in 2007 with a 12 round unanimous decision win over Thailand's Pornsawan (Kratingdaengym) Porpramook in a fight held at the Waterfront Hotel in Lahug, Cebu City.
Nietes? first title defense, a second round KO win against Eddy Castro of Nicaragua in 2008, was also held in Cebu. He then scored back to back title defense wins in Mexico against Erik Ramirez and Manuel Vargas in 2009.
Last January, Nietes beat another Mexican, Jesus Silvestre by tenth round TKO in a non-title bout in Pasay City. Rodriguez (10W-5L-3D, 7 KO?s) won the WBC Continental Americas minimuweight title last year.
Edito Villamor left for L.A. last Friday and is still feeling the effects of jet lag. Nietes has been in the U.S. for more than a week together with trainer Edmund Villamor and has acclimatized already.
Nietes vs Rodrigues will be held at the Auditorio Luis Estrada Medina in Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico. Philippine TV coverage is courtesy of GMA television network.
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