Ariza:“Where is Donaire’s Conditioning”

Keith Terceira

“I saw Donaire’s weigh-in and he is a pound and three quarters underweight. Why come in that light in you don’t have to? Where is Donaire’s muscle symmetry and his definition? ”

Alex Ariza, who has been having a war of words with ex-Balco head Victor Conte regarding the conditioning of fighters under their tutelage was concerned about the obvious lack of conditioning of Nonito Donaire (26-1 18ko’s), who faces undefeated Omar Narvaez (35 -0-2 19KO’s) on HBO this evening for the WBC and WBO bantamweight titles.

“Nonito had no definition, no nothing, If my body was going to look like that after one of Conte’s specialty nutritional plan, I’d rather go to a deaf, dumb, and blind man instead of Victor Conte. It looked like there was no conditioning involved, just looked like he dropped weight.”

The concern may be if Narvaez takes Donaire to the later rounds that the stamina won’t be there to prevent Nonito from fading. The last several bouts for Omar have gone into the championship rounds and he has become accustomed to battling it out to the end as he moved up in competition. Donaire has not gone past the 8^th round since 2009, when he won a unanimous decision with Rafael Concepcion.

“No definition, no muscle symmetry, no nothing, completely smooth. We will see tonight in the fight, you never know. It’s hard to say until we get into the fight,  he is facing another smaller guy, so we will see.”