Despite forty-one years and two defeats in a row, Nonito Donaire (42-8, 28 KOs) does not intend to hang up his gloves. If the defeat is from Naoya Inoue technical knockout in the second round was unpleasant, but expected, then the July defeat on points from a completely mediocre Alexandro Santiago turned out to be an unpleasant surprise. Moreover, the vacant WBC bantamweight belt was at stake.
The televised battle card of the tournament, which will take place on July 29 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, has been confirmed. The main event of this evening will be the fight for the IBF, WBA, WBO and WBC welterweight belts between Terence Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs) and Errol Spence Jr. (28-0, 22 KOs).
Nonito Donaire (42-7, 28 KOs) is already over 40, but he is still active, eager for challenges in the ring and received his next title fight the other day.
Legendary Filipino Veteran Nonito Donaire believes that the absolute world champion in the second middleweight Saul Alvarez will be able to defeat the holder of the WBA light heavyweight title Dmitry Bivol only if the latter, for the sake of revenge, descends into his weight category.
Thanks to the victory over Nonito Donaire, Naoya Inoue became the new leader of the P4P rating of The Ring magazine, ahead of Oleksandr Usyk.