WEIGH-IN REPORT AND PHOTOS FROM NEW YORK
By Rich Mazon
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 22 Oct 2011
New York ? The Peyton Room of the Affinia Hotel hosts the official weigh?in for tomorrow?s match between WBC and WBO Bantamweight Champion Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire of Talibon, Bohol Philippines against two?time division champion Omar Andres Narvaez of Chubut, Argentina.
Donaire took to the scales as he is the defending champion of this match. He weighed in at 116 & ? lbs. while Narvaez weighed in at an even 117. The 12 round championship match is set for tomorrow night at The Theater @ Madison square Garden, just adjacent to the hotel. The match will be televised live in the Continental US and all over the world via HBO and Top Rank.com at approximately 10:30 pm EST.
In the co- main event, Miguel Angel Garcia of Oxnard, CA will face Juan Carlos Martinez of San Luis, Potosi, Mexico for the NABF Featherweight title. Garcia tipped in at 125 lbs. while Martinez weighed in at 126.5 lbs. He initially weighed in at 127 and he reweighed in after he stripped down. He was so eager to strip down even without a towel blocking him that Ronnie Nathanielsz who was tasked to host the program, had to slow him down. ?There are ladies in the audience? Nathanielsz warned. He was given an hour to make the limit of 126. Juan Manuel Lopez and Kelly Pavlik were some of the boxing stars seen in the weigh-in today. Mediamen from the greater New York area, the Philippines and Argentina were all represented at the event.
Above photos: Nonito Donaire Jr (L) and Omar Andres Narvaez during today's weighin at the Affinia Hotel in New York.
Miguel Angel Garcia (L) and Juan Carlos Martinez.
Juan Ma Lopez came to witness the weighin.
Photos by Rob Cruz.
The rest of the weights for the undercards are as follows:
Jose Segura Torres (Miami, FL) 146 ? vs. Cletus Seldin (Brooklyn, NY) 146 ?
Kentray Henson (Memphis, TN) 147 vs. Mikael Zewski (Trois-Rivieres, Can) 148
Anthony Pietrantonio (Sharon, PA) 174 ? vs. Sean Monaghan (Long Beach, NY) 174 ?
Jose Rivera (New Rochelle, NY) 113 vs. Jonathan Gonzales (Caguas, PR) 113 ?
Brad Jackson (Denver, CO) 150 vs. Tommy Rainone (Long Island, NY) 150 ?
Eddie Ramirez (Laredo, TX) 135 ? vs. Mike Brooks (Oceanside, NY) 137
First Bell is slated to ring at 7:45 pm EST
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