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Nonito Donaire Video Interview - Eight-division champion Manny "PacMan" Pacquiao and unbeaten welterweight world champion Keith "One Time" Thurman went face-to-face Wednesday at the final press conference before their blockbuster showdown that headlines the Premier Boxing Champions on FOX Sports Pay-Per-View this Saturday night from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. (photos by Stephanie Trapp, Fox Sports)
By Keith Idec - LAS VEGAS – Nonito Donaire doesn’t fear Naoya Inoue. Donaire is starting to fear, though, that their fight isn’t going to happen. When Donaire agreed to compete in the World Boxing Super Series’ bantamweight tournament, he was told that the final would take place by June or July of thi...
Naoya Inoue is hopeful the biggest fight of his career to date is also a family affair. The unbeaten pound-for-pound entrant and reigning bantamweight titlist is awaiting final confirmation of a date and location for his title unification clash versus Nonito Donaire. The bout serves as the finals of the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight tournament, with the event being targeted for November according to Ohashi Promotions, who made the claim during a press conference Thursday in Inoue’s hometown of Yokohoma, Japan.
Jason Moloney has learned to live with the hand he was dealt in a narrow split decision loss to Emmanuel Rodriguez in their thrilling bantamweight title fight last October. It hasn’t made his viewing of the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight semifinals any easier to handle.
There still remains two more semifinals bouts in season two of World Boxing Super Series, but a three-continent search is already under way to secure venues for the forthcoming finals in three weight divisions later this year.
The staff at Top Rank is willing to remain patient in its long-running pursuit of Naoya Inoue, although eagerness over such a “Monster” signing has falsely assumed as his services already being secured.
Kalle Sauerland, Comosa’s Chief Boxing Officer wraps up Saturday’s semi-finals and looks forward to the cruiserweight semi-final showdowns on June 15 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia.
Naoya Inoue blasted his way through to the final of the World Boxing Super Series with a scintillating stoppage win. The WBA ‘regular’ champion at bantamweight took on Puerto Rico’s IBF champion Emmanuel Rodriguez. Inoue, whose last fight was a 70-second demolition of Juan Carlos Payano, will go on to face Nonito Donaire in the showpiece of the tournament, with the winner coming out with the Muhammad Ali Trophy and the Ring Magazine title.
It’s been a busy weekend for Nonito Donaire, but he wouldn’t have it any other way—right down to having to face one the sport’s very best for his next ring adventure. The four-division champ and reigning two-time bantamweight titlist spent back-to-back nights watching from ringside the latest victories by an opponent from his past and one in his immediate future. One fight after watching Ryan Burnett return to the win column with a win in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Donaire touched down in Glasgow, Scotland to witness the final leg of the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight tournament semifinals.
Naoya Inoue enhanced his reputation as one of the most exciting fighters on the planet with a brutal second-round stoppage of Emmanuel Rodriguez in Glasgow. The Japanese put on a sensational show in the World Boxing Super Series semi-final to defeat the previously unbeaten Rodriguez and add the IBF world bantamweight title having already held the WBA's regular belt.