(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Chris Williams: IBF/WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (29-1, 18 KO’s) may be moved up in weight if he beats former WBC super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka (39-4-3, 24 KO’s) tonight at the Home Depot Center, in Carson, California. The 29-year-old Donaire says he might stay at 122 if he can get big fights, but if he can’t then he’ll move up in weight to featherweight.

Donaire said to Jenna Jay in her On The Ropes Boxing Radio program at Doghouseboxing.com “If we can make the other fights happen for me, than I definitely am going to stay in this division, but if they tend to make it difficult for me than 126 is just around the corner.”

Donaire won’t be fighting WBC super bantamweight champion Abner Mares, so I hope he’s not refereeing to him because that’s a fight that his own promoter will likely not make due to Mares fighting for Golden Boy Promotions and he himself fighting for Top Rank. Unfortunately, that’s not a fight that will likely happen in this lifetime. The only question is whether Donaire wants to fight the guy that many hardcore boxing fans consider to be the best fighter in the division in WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux.

Donaire hasn’t been eager to fight Rigondeaux in the past, saying he thinks his style of fighting is boring. Now Donaire is saying that Rigondeaux priced himself out. The excuses seem to be changing but it looks like that fight might not happen either. What other big fights that Donaire could be talking about is really unknown unless he’s talking about 33-year-old Jorge Arce. But that’s a joke of a fight and hardly what I would consider a big fight.

Arce has unfinished business with Jesus M Rojas and really should be trying to fight that guy again rather than looking for other fights. I have a feeling that Donaire is specifically interested in the Arce fight when he talks about big fights. Donaire said that Arce priced himself out for himself as out as well when the two guys recently tried to put a fight between them. I don’t want to see Arce and Donaire fight, because that’s like Donaire vs. Nishioka, another fight against an aging guy that is slipping big time in his game.