By Chris Williams: In a real massacre, WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (37-3, 24 KOs) totally annihilated an over-matched much smaller #3 WBO Zsolt Bedak (25-2, 8 KOs) in a 3rd round TKO on Saturday night in Donaire’s first defense of his WBO 122lb strap at the Cebu City Sports Complex in Cebu, Philippines.
Zsolt Bedak
Donaire vs. Bedak moved to Cebu City in Philippines
By Chris Williams: WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (36-3, 23 KOs) will be making his first defense of his WBO title against Zsolt Bedak (25-1, 8 KOs) at the Cebu City Sports Complex in the Philippines.
The fight was previously scheduled for the Araneta Coliseum, Barangay Cubao, Quezon City, in Metro Manila, Philippines. It’s unknown why the fight was moved to a different venue other than perhaps the possibility for a bigger crowd in Cebu City.
Donaire, 33, recently won the vacant WBO super bantamweight title last December with a hard fought 12 round decision win over Cesar Juarez in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Nonito Donaire vs. Zsolt Bedak a possibility for April 23
By Chris Williams: A fight between WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (36-3, 23 KOs) and #5 WBO Zsolt Bedak (25-1, 8 KOs) is in the works for April 23 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in the Philippines. This would be the 33-year-old Donaire’s first defense of his World Boxing Organization 122lb title that he recently won in a hard-fought 12 round unanimous decision victory over Cesar Juarez (17-4, 13 KOs) last December in a fight in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Donaire really struggled in that fight in having problems with the pressure and the youth of the 24-year-old Mexican Juarez. Fortunately for Donaire, Juarez wasn’t much of a puncher, because otherwise he likely would have been knocked out by him.
Donaire’s promoters at Top Rank have reportedly been interested in having him defend his WBO 122lb title against Top Rank fighter Evgeny Gradovich (21-1, 9 KOs), a former IBF featherweight champion.
Stieglitz Stops Balzsay
By Erik Schmidt: In a shocking upset super middleweight contender Robert Stieglitz (36-2, 22 KOs) stopped World Boxing Organization (WBO) super middleweight champion Karoly Balzsay (21-1, 15 KOs) in a 11th round stoppage in front of Balzsay’s home audience at the SYMA Sport & Leisure Center, in Budapest, Hungary.