Super Flyweights : Nana Yaw Konadu vs. Omar Narvaez

[Woldemar]

IMO Narvaez by SD

What your opinions?

[giacomino]

IMO Narvaez by SD

What your opinions?

Tough pick, Narváez was a really good flyweight and better at 112 than at super flyweight, IMO, partly because he was the size of a jr. flyweight or flyweight. He had difficulty at 115 against guys who could punch and had a big size advantage (Orucuta, Seda, Inoue) at that weight. Konadu would have a big size advantage, but he was also unpredictable. I tend to think Konadu on his best could knock Narváez down early and win a UD but could see Narváez UD if Konadu isn’t at his best

[Woldemar]

IMO Narvaez by SD

What your opinions?

Tough pick, Narváez was a really good flyweight and better at 112 than at super flyweight, IMO, partly because he was the size of a jr. flyweight or flyweight. He had difficulty at 115 against guys who could punch and had a big size advantage (Orucuta, Seda, Inoue) at that weight. Konadu would have a big size advantage, but he was also unpredictable. I tend to think Konadu on his best could knock Narváez down early and win a UD but could see Narváez UD if Konadu isn’t at his best

IMO Konadu on his best would knock out Narvaez in 6-8 rounds.

[giacomino]

Tough pick, Narváez was a really good flyweight and better at 112 than at super flyweight, IMO, partly because he was the size of a jr. flyweight or flyweight. He had difficulty at 115 against guys who could punch and had a big size advantage (Orucuta, Seda, Inoue) at that weight. Konadu would have a big size advantage, but he was also unpredictable. I tend to think Konadu on his best could knock Narváez down early and win a UD but could see Narváez UD if Konadu isn’t at his best

IMO Konadu on his best would knock out Narvaez in 6-8 rounds.

Very possible but as we saw against much bigger Donaire and Tete, Narváez was good at going the distance when he had to. Both fights made zero sense to me (except for the payday) since he was fighting much bigger fighters and had zero chance of winning. Really would have loved to see him vs Wonjongkam, two dominant flyweights of their era, in about 2008-2010. My guess is it would have been a close fight