
Donaire Training Hard, Eyes Jorge Arce in Early 2012
WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire sparred ten rounds with three separate opponents today and according to his wife Rachael “feels good.”
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WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire sparred ten rounds with three separate opponents today and according to his wife Rachael “feels good.”

BoxingScene.com recently caught up with WBO 122 pound champion Jorge "Travieso" Arce. The four division titlist was in Las Vegas to support his countryman Rafael Marquez who lost an unanimous decision to WBC super bantamweight champ Toshiaki Nishioka.

Super bantamweight contender Jonathan Oquendo (22-2, 15 KOs) said he was satisfied with Saturday's big win in Puerto Rico, where he captured the WBO's Latino title by knocking out Jose Luis Araiza dramatically in two rounds. Oquendo is going to push his promoters, and the WBO, to force an immediate shot at champion Jorge 'Travieso' Arce. Oquendo wants to face Arce in the first three months of 2012.

Japan’s WBC super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka pounded out an impressive twelve round unanimous decision over former two division champion Rafael Marquez, brother of WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Ryan Burton catches up with WBO super bantamweight champion Jorge Arce to discuss his recent win, what he plans to do next and more.

WBO super bantamweight champion Jorge "Travieso" Arce has hit Las Vegas. The Mexican champion has arrived for a meeting with Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, where the boxer will discuss his November 12 opponent. Arce will appear on the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez undercard at the MGM Grand. Arce will also appear this Saturday at the MGM Grand to support countryman Rafael Marquez, who challenges Japan's Toshiaki Nishioka for the super bantamweight title of the World Boxing Council (WBC).

He may not go down as a capital “G” great fighter, but Jr. Featherweight titlist Jorge Arce is hard not to feel great about as a fight lover. Over a long career, Arce has been a thrill ride with some big times wins and losses to some of the finest names among the lower weight classes in now three decades.

WBO super bantamweight champion Jorge “Travieso” Arce (58-6-2, 45 KOs) got revenge by knocking out Simphiwi Nongqayi (16-2-1, 6 KOs) in the fourth round of their rematch at the Foro Promo Casa in Mexicali, Mexico. Nongqayi won a twelve round decision over Arce when the two boxers faced off at super flyweight, and the South African boxer also holds a win over Jorge's brother, Francisco Arce. Nongqayi went down in the first round and took a beating in the corner as the ref jumped in to wave it off in the fourth.

Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (21-1, 17KOs), who last May lost the super bantamweight belt of the World Boxing Organization (WBO) to Mexico's Jorge "El Travieso" Arce, is craving to get revenge. Vazquez returns on the 29 of October at the Coliseum Mario "Quijote" Morales in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The opponent has not been determined but he wants to face Arce in early 2012. There has been some discussion about a possible rematch in February.

By Jake Donovan Rejuvenated super bantamweight titlist Jorge Arce made the first defense of his belt with a revenge-fueled fourth-round knockout of Simphiwe Nongqayi on Saturday evening at Foro Promo Casa in Mexicali, BC, Mexico. Arce scored a knockdown in the opening round and overcame a headbutt-induced cut early in the fourth to batter Nongqayi until forcing referee Rafael Ramos to intervene. The official time was 2:01 of the 4th round of their Fox Deportes-televised main event.