By Chris Williams: If Nonito Donaire wants a chance to avenge his loss to WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux in 2014, then he’s going to need to agree to a rehydration limit of 135 lbs. Rigondeaux is willing to come up and fight Donaire in his own weight class at featherweight, but he doesn’t agree to be fighting a light welterweight Donaire with him weighing in excess of 135 lbs.
Rigondeaux is willing to let Donaire rehydrate from the featherweight limit of 126 all the way to the lightweight upper limit at 135. That’s 9 pounds that Rigondeaux is willing to give Donaire, but he doesn’t want to fight Donaire if he rehydrates into the light welterweight division at over 135. That’s too much weight for Rigondeaux, who fights right at 122 lbs. He doesn’t rehydrate into the 130s and definitely not in the 140s.