112 STILL DONAIRE’S HOME ADDRESS!
By Dennis Principe
Fight News
October 24, 2008
World flyweight champion Nonito Donaire, Jr. will move up in weight
only if he will be given a world title shot.
This was revealed by Donaire during an interview Friday morning with
this writer’s daily morning radio show "Sports Chat" aired over DZSR
918 kHz.
Donaire (19-1, 12 KO’s) said he is still at home in the flyweight
division and is ready to make a few more title defenses of his 112lb
belt if no one among the champions in the super flyweight division
will give him a title shot.
"Right now making the weight is not a struggle for me. This morning
when I woke up I was 117 and after running I was at 114," said Donaire.
Donaire is set to defend his International Boxing Federation (IBF)
flyweight championship against Moruti Mthalane of South Africa on
November 1 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mexican superstar Jorge Arce tops Donaire’s wish list of potential
foes in the star-studded super flyweight kingdom currently ruled by
another Mexican Cristian Mijares who holds the World Boxing Association
(WBA) and World Boxing Council (WBC) belts. The IBF version is held
by Australia-based Armenian Vic Darchinyan whom Donaire beat for the
flyweight crown via a sensational one-punch 5th round stoppage July
of last year.
Arce will see action in the same card as Donaire where the Mexican
will defend his WBA interim title against Isidro Garcia.
Darchinyan and Mijares will fight in a unification bout also on
November 1 at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.
"Arce is a great fighter and I want to prove that I am the best and
to achieve that Arce is the best fight for me," said Donaire.
As for the Mijares-Darchinyan clash, Donaire is giving the Mexican a
90% chance of keeping his belts and adding the IBF tiara of Darchinyan.
"MIjares is a lot faster than Darchinyan. He doesn’t have much power
but he’s very smart and hard to hit," said Donaire.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
