
Oscar Collazo gets nod from Nonito Donaire as boxing’s next big thing
Very little about Oscar Collazo can be characterized as typical, writes Jason Langendorf.
Nonito Donaire: record, next fight and profile →

Very little about Oscar Collazo can be characterized as typical, writes Jason Langendorf.

ORLANDO, Florida – Nonito Donaire took his seat in the front row of the rankings meeting at the WBA convention in Orlando, Florida, and waited patiently for his old division, the bantamweights, to come up for discussion.

Inspired by Fabio Wardley's stunning first-round knockout of Frazer Clarke in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Elliot Worsell looks at other examples of rematches that were quicker and easier than anyone expected



Roman Gonzalez has hit out at speculation that he might meet fellow future International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Nonito Donaire.

With the amount of time that we, as boxing fans or boxing writers, spend sitting around pondering dream fights, staring up and down divisional rankings trying to come up with pairings to toss out there on Twitter to spark conversation or, during a slow week, to use as fodder to manufacture a column (cough, cough), you’d think every conceivable matchup would have occurred to us.

Nonito Donaire may be a boxing icon and future hall of famer but he should consider hanging up the gloves — according to his trainer Robert Garcia

Nonito Donaire last fought on July 29 2023, losing a unanimous decision to Alejandro Santiago on the Terence Crawford-Errol Spence undercard at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Nonito Donaire has welcomed a potential fight with Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, especially after Gonzalez’s recent bantamweight debut, where he stopped Rober Barrera in the 10th round in Nicaragua, ending a year-and-a-half hiatus from the sport.