By Chris Williams: After winning an unimpressive 12 round unanimous decision victory over IBF super bantamweight champion Jeffrey Mathebula (26-4-2, 14 KO’s) last night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (29-1, 18 KO’s) said he’ll likely go after one more belt at 122 against WBC Emeritus super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka (39-4, 24 KO’s) and then move up to the featherweight division to campaign at 126 lbs.
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Donaire: I could fight Rigondeaux or Mares next
By Chris Williams: WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire says he could wind up facing either WBC super bantamweight champ Abner Mares next or WBA champion Guillermo Rigondeaux next depending on what his manager Cameron Dunkin wants for him. Donaire will be fighting IBF super bantamweight champion Jeffrey Mathebula on Saturday in a unification bout in Carson, California.
Donaire interested in fighting Rigondeaux if it involves a tournament
By Chris Williams: Trying to get WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (28-1,m 18 KO’s) to fight WBA World super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (10-0, 8 KO’s) has been like trying to get someone to go to the dentist to have a tooth pulled. Donaire has been less than eager and that’s putting it mildly.
Mares: Donaire doesn’t want to fight Rigondeaux; I’ll fight him
By Chris Williams: With WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire making every excuse under the sun for not stepping it up a couple levels and facing WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (10-0, 8 KO’s), the WBC 122 pound champion Abner Mares says he thinks Donaire is afraid to fight Rigondeaux and that he’ll fight him if Donaire is afraid to.
Donaire has to look good against Mathebula if he wants to stay ahead of Rigondeaux in popularity
Rigondeaux ready to give Donaire a pounding
By Chris Williams: In the past, Nonito Donaire (28-1, 18 KO’s) didn’t want to fight Guillermo Rigondeaux (10-0, 8 KO’s) because he didn’t have a title, and there was nothing that the Cuban had to offer him. Now that Rigondeaux has the WBA super bantamweight title, Donaire says Rigondeaux lacks experience at the pro level for him to bother fighting him.
Chavez Jr-Martinez undercard likely to include Rigondeaux, Macklin & Mike Alvarado
By Allan Fox: It looks like Top Rank president Bob Arum is going to load up the undercard of the September 15th pay-per-view card headlined by a match-up between WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (46-0-1, 32 KO’s) vs. Sergio Martinez (49-2-2, 28 KO’s) at the Thomas & Mack Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Donaire faces Mathebula; Rigondeaux waiting to halt the Nonito hype machine
Can Cuban Fighters Pull Boxing Out Of The Gutter?
By Mark Uliano: With the untimely and unfortunate passing of Teófilo Stevenson, one of the greatest amateur and Olympic fighters in boxing history, we in the boxing community have not to look far to recognize the influx of Cuban born fighters that are beginning to break into the world rankings; Olympic medallists, who had to defect from their homeland in order to have to opportunity to become boxing greats.
Donaire says he didn’t bother to watch Rigondeaux’s fight against Kennedy
By Chris Williams: WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (28-1, 18 KO’s) said he didn’t even bother watching fellow 122 lb champion WBA World super bantamweight title holder Guillermo Rigondeaux’s fight against Teon Kennedy last Saturday night on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Tim Bradley.