LOS ANGELES – Nonito Donaire is old enough to have fought at Dignity Health Sports Park through all of its name changes. This weekend will mark his fourth career appearance at the infamous War Grounds, fighting in his third different weight class at...
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In a huge fight that could restart his promising, career former world super flyweight champion “Marvelous” Marvin Sonsona returns to the ring to battle former WBC super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka of Japan in a blockbuster Top Rank Card a...
Tokyo – Japan's former World Boxing Council super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka announced his retirement Tuesday, a month after losing a world title bout to Nonito Donaire of the Philippines. “I have done what I should do. I am fully sat...
The battle for the WBC Diamond Belt between WBO super bantamweight/junior featherweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire and Japan’s WBC champion emeritus Toshiaki Nishioka last October 14 over ABS-CBN Channel 2 turned in tremendous TV ra...
This one looked like Nonito Donaire-Omar Narvaez II until Toshiaki Nishioka opened up- and was rewarded with a KO loss. Nishioka avg'd five power shots thrown per round over the first five rounds and 15 thrown per round over the next four rounds. D...
by Cliff Rold - In a steady, workmanlike performance, 29-year old WBO Super Bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (30-1, 19 KO) of San Leandro, California scored two knockdowns en route to a ninth-round stoppage of defensive minded 36-year old former...
Both Nonito Donaire and Toshiaki Nishioka throw well below the weight class average. Nishioka landed more of his total punches vs. weaker opposition than Donaire. Nishioka landed 53% of his power shots. 66% of their landed punches were power shots....
World Boxing Council president Don Jose Sulaiman claims that in addition to the IBF super bantamweight title, which will not be at stake in the battle between Nonito "The Filipino Flash" Donaire and Japanese southpaw Toshiaki Nishioka, the WBO belt...
Barring a draw in the main event, on Sunday morning boxing fans will have a universally recognized new champion at 122 lbs. for the first time since Israel Vazquez and, hopefully, lots of blood to clean off their screens or clothes, depending on wher...