Nonito Donaire didn’t even know how much elite-level boxing he had left in him two years ago. Donaire, then 35, had just lost nine rounds to Carl Frampton on all three scorecards in a 12-round featherweight title fight in Belfast. That was his second...
If there was any doubt as to who the face of boxing was in 2019, Canelo Alvarez answered it. The 29-year-old Mexican beat two quality opponents last year, outpointing Daniel Jacobs to unify middleweight titles in May, then jumped two weight classes t...
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Boxing pundits weren’t quite sure what to make of Carl Frampton’s win over Nonito Donaire back when the pair of former multi-division titlists collided nearly two years ago. Frampton claimed a clear-cut 12-round points win—the second of three straigh...
Former world champion Luis 'Pantera' Nery was a very interested party in the recent bantamweight unification between Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire, who collided in the final bout of the World Boxing Super Series tournament. Inoue dropped and won a t...
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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I’ve never been a Nonito Donaire cheerleader. But that doesn’t mean I don’t recognize his talents. He’s clearly a world-class operator, obviously has world-class punching power and certainly has shared the ring with some world-c...
Japanese superstar Naoya Inoue has revealed that he suffered a pair of fractures around his right eye, as a result of the toughest fight to date of his pro career. This past Thursday, Inoue came away with the win in his punishing World Boxing Super...
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Naoya Inoue, Nonito Donaire Fight Photos Gallery - A bloodied Naoya Inoue won a bruising thriller over Nonito Donaire of the Philippines by unanimous decision Thursday to capture the WBA super bantamweight title. (photos by Naoki Fukuda)
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Cut over the right eye from a clean hook in round two and rocked by a right cross in round nine, Naoya Inoue dug deep in the late rounds to not only add Nonito Donaire's WBA "super" bantamweight title to his own IBF belt, but also win the World Boxin...
Naoya Inoue overcame the heroic Nonito Donaire to claim a points victory to win the Ali Trophy in the bantamweight edition of the World Boxing Super Series in Saitama, Japan. The three judges scored the bout 116-111, 117-109, 114-113 in favour of Ino...
By Keith Idec - Naoya Inoue’s third fight in the World Boxing Super Series’ bantamweight tournament wasn’t nearly as easy as his first two quick knockouts in it. Powerful veteran Nonito Donaire rocked Inoue with a right hand in the ninth round, blood...
When Nonito Donaire is quizzed where he was on July 7, 2007, a night he was a heavy underdog in his first world title fight, he immediately remembers. “That’s the day I knocked out Vic Darchinyan,” Donaire says without thinking twice. Over the last d...
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