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In an interview with this writer and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area’s Jim Kozimor Monday afternoon, junior featherweight titleholder Nonito Donaire and Victor Conte revealed that the former would enroll in the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association program and submit to unprecedented year-round drug testing.
Nonito Donaire and Top Rank haven’t always seen eye-to-eye during their time together, now going on six years and counting. When news broke of the Fil-Am star agreeing to year-round random drug testing, the question was whether or not Top Rank – who has yet to incorporate supplemental drug tests into its events – would be on board with his decision.
Nonito Donaire has enrolled in the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) program and will be the first professional boxer to engage in year-round drug testing, according to his nutritionist and consultant, Victor Conte.
The trainer of WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire, former world champion Robert Garcia, picks “Fighter of the Decade” Manny Pacquiao to win a twelve round decision against Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley in their WBO welterweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in Saturday.
Las Vegas, Nevada --- Hall of Fame Top Rank promoter Bob Arum(2nd right) poses with undefeated former world Lightweight champion Brandon "Bam Bam" Rios(L), trainer Robert Garcia(2nd left) and WBO Jr. Featherweight champion Nonito "The Filipino Flash" Donaire(R) to announce their upcoming spectacular doubleheader fights, Saturday, July 7 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Ca on HBO Boxing After Dark. Donaire takes on IBF champion Jeffery "Marvelous Mongoose" Mathebula and Rios will battle top contender Mauricio Herrera. --- Photos Credit to Chris Farina/Top Rank.
The camp of IBF super bantamweight champion Jeffrey Mathebula believes his height and reach advantage “will make a difference” when he battles WBO champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire in a unification title fight at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California on July 7.
Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire has relished his latest Northern California homecoming. After spending his last training camp in Las Vegas, the San Leandro native returned to his familiar confines of the Undisputed Gym in San Carlos last month to prepare for his July 7 junior featherweight unification tilt against IBF champ Jeffrey Mathebula (26-3-2, 14 KOs) at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.
Well-respected trainer Robert Garcia is on the road again, dividing his time between his bases of his personal facility in Oxnard, California and the Undisputed Boxing Gym in San Carlos six hours north.
Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire is in awesome shape after training like he never trained before for his WBO super bantamweight title defense in a unification bout with IBF champion Jeffrey Mathebula of South Africa on July 7 at the Home Dept Center in Carson City, California.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said before Manny Pacquiao pulverized Oscar de la Hoya who quit on his stool at the end of seven rounds, that “speed kills.”