SULAIMAN BELIEVES ARCE HAS NO CHANCE TO BEAT DONAIRE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 12 Jul 2012
Although he concedes that Jorge ?Travieso? Arce, the No.1 ranked WBO super bantamweight is a true Mexican warrior in the ring, World Boxing Council president Don Jose Sulaiman believes Arce has no chance to beat Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire in their planned October title fight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Sulaiman told the Manila Standard that he thinks Arce ?will be an easy target for Donaire? claiming that the Mexican is ?old and slow? but concedes that Arce ?throws punches every fraction of a second when he is allowed to do so.?
From his perspective Don Jose said ?Arce has absolutely no chance to beat Donaire? who is the current WBO and IBF 122 pound champion having added the IBF title to his four division championship belts with a comfortable twelve round unanimous decision over South Africa?s IBF champion Jeffrey Mathebula at the Home Depot Center in Carson City last July 7.
Meantime, Mathebula?s promoter Branco Milenkovic says his fighter will undergo surgery for a broken jaw which Mathebula said happened in the 7th round of the unification title fight against Donaire.
Durandt claimed that Mathebula ?only started feeling it in the 11th round and I think that?s why he went into protective mode and just tried to keep his hands up over his jaw? in the face of an aggressive by Donaire in the last two rounds,
Durandt said ?I don?t know how the ringside doctor missed it. It?s been confirmed that he broke his jaw and he will have surgery in the next day or two. This just makes Jeffrey?s performance even better. He was very brave and he showed a lot of heart,? praising his fighter for staying there for all 12 rounds.
WBO/IBF super bantamweight champion Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire plans ?at least eight weeks of training? for his battle with Mexican warrior Jorge ?Travieso? Arce at the Staples Center in October.
Donaire told the Manila Standard here in the US that he expects to get back into training ?maybe in a month or so? and that he wants to give himself an eight-week training camp ?so I?ll be in good shape and ready to go.?
He said that ?side from my legs cramping (in the Jeffrey Mathebula IBF title fight) my lungs are really good, every round I felt fresh and all the twelve rounds I threw a lot of punches and bobbed and weaved. They were all powerful punches.?
Donaire indicated that he didn?t ?slow down at all from the first round to the last round and the power was there and I was always chasing him. I was in tremendous shape.?
Talking about the Mathebula fight Donaire told us ?there were other tactics I wanted to try out but I was happy with my performance. The guy was tall, he was backing off but I was able to take him down and take away a lot of his pop even though he was awkward.?
Donaire believes that ?if Mathebula fights the way he fought me I think he?ll beat Abner Mares and all these other guys by points. He won?t knock them out.?
Donaire told the Standard he plans ?at least eight weeks of training? for his battle with Mexican warrior Jorge ?Travieso? Arce at the Staples Center in October.
Donaire said he expects to get back into training ?maybe in a month or so? and that he wants to give himself an eight-week training camp ?so I?ll be in good shape and ready to go.?
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