Don’t Move Up (Yet) Donaire!: Review, Ratings Update
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Juanma Warns Donaire: Stay Away From Featherweight
Last Saturday, WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lopez was ringside at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas to watch Filipino Nonito Donaire capture the WBO/WBC bantamweight titles with a two round knockout of Fernando Montiel. After the big win, the prospect of fighting Juanma and other featherweights was brought up in conversation to Donaire. The unbeaten Puerto Rican has warned Donaire to stay away from the featherweight division, at least for a while.
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Chemito Moreno: I'll Be Like Mayweather Against Donaire
The bantamweight champion of the World Boxing Association (WBA), Panama's Anselmo "Chemito" Moreno, is confident that he can box circles around Filipino Nonito Donaire, the new WBO/WBC champion after knocking out Fernando Montiel in two rounds last Saturday in Las Vegas. Without hesitation, Chemito said he wasn't afraid of Donaire and willing to accept any challenge for a fight. Moreno is the WBA's "super champion" at bantamweight, while Japan's Koki Kameda is the "regular" WBA champion.
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Koki Kameda: I'll Fight Nonito Donaire at Anytime!
Koki Kameda (24-1, 15KOs), the WBA's "regular" bantamweight champion, has called for a unification with WBC/WBO title holder Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18KOs). He would to stage a unification bout with Donaire as the main event showcase on the year-end “Kameda Festival” event.
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Nonito Donaire Climbs in Pound For Pound Rankings
LAS VEGAS – Newly crowned WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire has moved up to No. 3 in the prestigious Ring Magazine’s pound-for-pound rankings behind fellow Filipino Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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Eric Morel-Martin Castillo in April, Wants Donaire Next
According to his father and trainer Cyril, former WBO interim-bantamweight champion, Eric Morel, sent a message to Nonito Donaire, who spectacularly knocked Fernando Montiel on Saturday, that he is ready to fight him, even in the Philippines - if the pay is fair and reasonable.
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Undeniable Donaire: BScene’s Pound for Pound Top Ten
Filipino-born Southern Californian Nonito Donaire had been a somewhat polarizing figure on the boxing landscape. The talent was obvious. There were some questions to be had about just how strong the resume was, how much his talent had been proven.
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CompuBox Review: Donaire Becomes a Star, in a Flash
Every once in a great while, a fighter seeking to achieve everlasting greatness creates a signature moment that fans and historians will point to whenever his legacy is discussed.
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Roy Jones Jr. Pairs Donaire With Mayweather, Pacquiao
Last Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KOs) captured the WBO and WBC bantamweight titles with a stunning two round knockout of Fernando Montiel (44-3-2, 34 knockouts). It was the Filipino fighter's 25th straight victory and 10th knockout in his past 12 fights at the Mandalay Bay in an HBO-televised thriller.
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Video: Nonito Donaire on Knocking Out Montiel, More
Ryan Burton catches up with WBO/WBC bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire, who talks about his big win over Fernando Montiel, what's next in his career and more.
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