
Donaire Wants Tune-up at 126, Then Maybe Valdez in The Fall
Nonito Donaire is not exactly fired up by the idea of fighting undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight champion Oscar Valdez on a date in March.
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Nonito Donaire is not exactly fired up by the idea of fighting undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight champion Oscar Valdez on a date in March.

As BoxingScene.com previously reported, Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum is looking to stage a March bout between Nonito Donaire and undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight champion Oscar Valdez.

The last time we saw Nonito Donaire, he lost his WBO super bantamweight title to Jessie Magdaleno on the night of November 5th on the Manny Pacquiao-Jessie Vargas pay-per-view undercard at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.

Two of Top Rank's bright young champions are WBO featherweight titlist Oscar Valdez (21-0, 19KOs) and WBO super middleweight belt-holder Gilberto Ramirez (34-0, 24KOs).

Frank Espinoza, manager of WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (21-0, 19KOs) and several other fighters, recently spoke to BoxingScene.com about potential scenarios for his young champion.

Featherweight world champion Oscar Valdez will attend the third edition of the Premios Univision Deportes (Univision Sports Awards) in Miami on Sunday, December 18, broadcast live at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on the Univision Network and UDN. Valdez will be joining the star-studded awards show as a nominee for Boxer of the Year.

According to former four division beltholder Juan Manuel Marquez, the featherweight champion of the World Boxing Organization - Oscar Valdez (21-0, 19KOs) - needs at least three or four solid fights to prepare himself for the top names at 126-pounds.

WBO featherweight world champion Oscar Valdez is looking for the biggest fights possible in 2017. Valdez (21-0, 19KOs) had three ring appearances in 2016.

BoxingScene.com recently caught up with former two-division champion Tim Bradley (33-2-1) who has been out of the ring since losing a unanimous decision in his trilogy bout with Manny Pacquiao this past April.

Oscar Valdez discusses his future video interview - Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas - In his first defense of the WBO bantamweight title, Oscar Valdez (21-0, 19KOs) broke down and stopped Hiroshige Osawa (30-4, 19KOs) in the seventh round.