By Chris Williams: WBA World featherweight champion Nicholas Walkers (24-0, 20 KOs) plans on making quick work of WBA Super World featherweight champion Nonito Donaire (33-2, 21 KOs) this month in their fight on October 18th at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Walters, 28, doesn’t want to let the soon to be 32-year-old Donaire to hang around too long. He wants to get Donaire out of there as quick as possible. Considering what happened the last time Donaire fought, Walters might want to score as quick a knockout as possible to avoid finding himself on the receiving end of a controversial decision.
In Donaire’s last fight against Simpiwe Vetyeka last May, Donaire suffered a cut in the 1st round. He fought with the cut for 4 rounds, but after scoring a flash knockdown of Vetyeka in the 4th, Donaire said after the round that he couldn’t see out of his previously cut eye.
The fight then went to the scorecards and Donaire got the win. Some boxing fans think Donaire waited just long enough for him to have a good round to take the lead in a very close fight and then bow out of the fight.
“Donaire is going to realize from round one that he is in the wrong division fighting the wrong guy. Come October 18th, Christmas is coming early for me: I’m knocking out Donaire in round five or six,” Walters said to Fightnews.com.
The Donaire-Walters fight will be the co-feature bout on the Gennady Golovkin vs. Marco Antonio Rubio fight card on HBO Championship Boxing.
This is going to be a difficult fight for Donaire because Walters has a string of knockouts, and he’s got the size and power to give Donaire fits. In Walter’s last fight, he stopped Vic Darchinyan in the 5th round last May.
If Donaire doesn’t knock Walters out or if Donaire doesn’t suffer another injury that causes the fight to be stopped then it’s quite possible we could see Walters win this fight.
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