Nietes touches down in Dubai

FORMER world champion Donnie “Ahas” Nietes arrived smoothly in Dubai on Tuesday night three days before his comeback fight on Saturday against Colombian Pablo Carillo at the Caesars Palace.

It will be the 38-year-old Nietes’s first fight in two years.

Nietes’s trainer Edmund Villamor said on Wednesday that they flew from Cebu to the UAE capital, adding their flight was hitch-free.

“We’re doing fine after our arrival and there’s no quarantine here. We directly went to our hotel after our swab tests,” Villamor said.

Villamor said Nietes is all primed up for the fight.

“He is one of the very disciplined boxers so I believe we’re going to be successful in this fight,” Villamor said.

The former four-division world champion Nietes (42-1-5 win-loss-draw record with 23 knockouts) and Carillo (25-7-1 record with 16 knockouts) will vie for the vacant World Boxing Organization international super flyweight belt.