Donnie Nietes To Continue Forward, Reacts To Loss in Ioka Rematch.
“I was not able to put as much pressure on Ioka as I would have liked. I was waiting for Ioka to move in and throw his shots, so that I could hit him with my big counters, but it didn’t happen often enough.
"I was defeated but, without question, I can still fight for word titles again.”
So it seems that Nietes is looking forward to continue his boxing career. I don't know if this is a good idea, but only him can answer that. As far as his performance, it seems that Father time has really catch up with the former champion though.
Yes, he is still looking forward to have some fights and if he really that dedicated then it has to happen this year because time is really on his side. I know that he could still do some of it but his words will not sum up on how he moved during the rematch, it just that Ioka has learned that is why the Japanese fighter doesn't throw some punch to have some exchange because Ioka definitely knows that Nietes could still give some good punch.
We will see if Probellum can match someone to the former champion.
Yes, its probably the Ioka has really adjusted and knows how to play Nietes this time, He knows that Nietes will be countering him all night, so what did he do? just one-two punch then go out of the target range of Nietes. And if Donnie tries to go be the aggressive, then Ioka will just turtle up. Anyhow, let's see what will be the next move by this team and his handlers. He says he wanted to continue to fight then so be it.
Aside from that, Ioka also made some more experience after the 1st encounter they had which gave more advantage to Ioka and this time, Ioka is more confident and much smarter just like what we saw recently. If we look on Nietes and Ioka's recent record, the latter did more fights and all those fights has ended on his favor unlike Nietes who only managed to win 1 fight and 1 draw.