Donaire's Options @ 126

John is the longest reigning titlist in all of boxing with his WBA featherweight belt so there would be no need for a vacant title.

Your idea is sharp. Donaire vs. John has to happen for me. John could get his second "career decisive" win while Donaire could redeem himself (if he hadn't in the eyes of casuals by the theoretical time of the fight happening) and conquer another weight class.

I would love this if it happened.

 

I very much doubt that Arum would make Lomachenko-Donaire. Putting Nonito in with an ATG amateur with little pro experience ... what could possibly go wrong?

I wouldn't mind seeing Donaire-Garcia. The idea of him fighting John is fairly appealing but, with John approaching the end of his career, would he want to take that risk?

 

You're right, with Arum doing business in Asia a Donaire-John fight is a possibility.

I also think Walters is up next for Donaire, probably the reason Arum has him on the undercard of Donaire's next fight.

With Donaire most likely winning impressively against a known but faded fighter in Darchinyan and then picking up a belt from an undefeated Walters he will have done a pretty good job of rebuilding from the Rigendoux loss.

 

I could be wrong but I think Gonzalez fights Mares next due to Mares excercising his rematch clause. I also think GBP has a couple options of Gonzalez because of the Mares fight. That would make Donaire-Gonzalez unlikely anytime soon but if I'm wrong than, yeah, Donaire-Gonzalez is a good fight that makes sense.

 

It's simple: Donaire has to avoid the natural featherweights & fight blown up flyweights in make belief featherweight fights.

Darchinian etiology, Agbeko, Mares, Viloria, maybe lure Arce out of retirement

Any natural Featherweight owns him, Lomachenko, Chris John, Russian Mexican, Mike Garcia, Gonzalez will all own him in ways the mind can't imagine