It's always the age concern when Donaire has a fight. It's impossible for his doubters they will not to include that age matters.
On what fight we didn't hear that age concern? Of course, we won't include Inoue in our analysis as he's really on a top level and no one from the bantamweight is able to defeat him although Donaire is the only bantamweight that gives Inoue a serious beating on the Monster's career.
Let's start with Donaire after losing Inoue. He faced the WBC Champion Nordine Oubaali. Donaire was 38 years old at that time. As usual, before the fight, others say that Donaire was too old to fight as he loses to Inoue. But the result? He won against the 34 years old Ouballi and even knocked this guy 4 times. His next fight is against a much younger and fellow Filipino Reymart Gaballo who is 24 years old at that time and currently in prime. And as usual again, others also pointed out that Donaire is too old on that fight at 39 years old but the result is, he won against that young and prime boxer and knocked him out in just 4th round.
Jason Moloney is a good test for Donaire if he can still match with top bantamweight at his age.
You can't really disregard Donaire's age in his future fights. It will always be a question because obviously, as humans become older, they tend to lose some of their endurance, strength, and mobility generally. What more in fights wherein a lot of strain is put in the body of the fighter? But yeah, with age comes experience, and this is what Donaire uses to edge against his opponents that, so far, is working so well even though he didn't got to bet Inoue.
Even Manny Pacquiao got old before the legend hung up his gloves. He was still active and his punches still pack a lot of power, but his speed was noticeably slower and yet he still managed to not get knocked out on his last fights.
I don't really disregard Donaire's age but what I'm trying to point out is, in doing technical analysis, age should not be the MAIN FACTOR on why Doinare shouldn't win against his opponents. Against Oubaali, against Gaballo, that was after fighting Inoue for the first time which Donaire lose, it's the age the main reason that people mostly pointed out why Donaire's chance of winning is on the verge.
This fight against Moloney will be the fight that will tell us if Donaire can still win against any bantamweight.
If he loses, that's not the age as the reason but rather Moloney just dominates him and does the right thing to win.