Using the ratings of the published issues of Ring Magazine, and the archived ratings of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB) since their debut in October 2012, and under the assumption they ...
After nearly two months’ worth of negotiations—and at points, lack thereof—finally comes resolution for Nordine Oubaali and Nonito Donaire. TGB Promotions secured the rights to the aforementioned bant...
The sanctioning bodies remain in a festive mood well beyond the holiday season. Yet another purse bid hearing has been delayed, this time with bantamweights Nordine Oubaali and Nonito Donaire as the b...
Even with more than a month to reach terms and a willingness to face one another, Nordine Oubaali and Nonito Donaire and their respective handlers didn’t manage to get very far. The World Boxing Counc...
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 middleweig...
The show on which Nordine Oubaali made his latest title defense came with the expectation of next challenging a bantamweight in the evening’s headlining act. Such a scenario has in fact played out, ev...
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-c...
Nonito Donaire, Jessie Vargas Interview - MGM Grand, Las Vegas - WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KOs) was patient, but it only took one punch to knock Luis Ortiz (32-1, 27 KOs) out...
WBO bantamweight champion Zolani Tete admitted that he was as stunned as everyone else by the war of attrition waged by Nonito Donaire and Naoya Inoue in their World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) bantamw...
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 ...
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 a...
By Tris Dixon - Nonito Donaire is always on hand to remind us why we love this sport. He’s almost 37 and has never looked fitter. He’s nearer the end than the beginning but his chin is still resolute....
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...
For all its flaws in execution and managing the calendar, the World Boxing Super Series has been one of the genuine highlights of boxing the last couple years in the ring. Callum Smith and Oleksandr U...
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 bantamw...
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...
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 t...
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...
By Cliff Rold - When the second wave of three World Boxing Super Series tournaments was announced in 2018, the eight-man field at bantamweight looked like the best of what admittedly were all quite st...
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,” Do...