Good news re; Vic and Donaire

lol..

Where was this again??

 

Darchinyan vs Donaire Rematch is Done, Says Bob Arum

Ronnie Nathanielsz on 05-03-2010.


After weeks of uncertainty and quibbling over television rights Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says the rematch between WBA super flyweight interim champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire and reigning WBC/WBA champion Vic Darchinyan “is done.”

Arum told ***********.com that “the Donaires are coming in to finalize everything tomorrow (in Las Vegas).” Arum said that if Donaire wins over Darchinyan then “I will put him in with (Fernando) Montiel” who recently scored a stunning 4th round TKO over Japan’s bantamweight champion Hozumi Hasegawa.

Montiel himself said that after a rest he wanted to fight Donaire and Darchinyan which pleased the flashy Filipino who wants to move up in weight and has been aching to face Montiel.

Arum also indicated that Donaire could have a tune-up fight “if he wanted one” but said Donaire “doesn’t want it.”

Donaire told ***********.com, insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports the other day that Darchinyan had claimed he (Donaire) was scared of him and pointed out that the best way to settle the issue would be to get it on, so he could repeat what he did to Darchinyan when he knocked him out in the 5th round of their IBF/IBO flyweight title on July 7, 2007 with the stoppage being named the “Knockout of the Year.”

Donaire added from a personal standpoint “I want to shut his mouth and when I beat him it ends it all. I want to prove to the people that I knocked him out and that’s what I’m going to try to do again.”

Donaire also said that he had begun training for the August21 rematch even as Arum told us the fight will not take place at the Home Depot in California as earlier planned said “people here in Nevada want us to do the fight in Las Vegas.”

Donaire said “I have been sparring with southpaws and trying to focus on left-handers.” Among the southpaws Donaire has been sparring with is Dodie Boy Penalosa Jr , the outstanding Filipino amateur champion who recently turned pro and signed up with Dunkin and Donaire. Penalosa Jr is the son of former two division world champion Dodie Boy Penalosa who is also a member of Donaire’s training staff which includes brother Jonathan Penalosa.

Donaire said he is “training hard so that I don’t have to worry about the weight” since he has had problems staying within the 115 pound limit and wants to move up to the bantamweight limit of 118.

He emphasized over and over again “I want to make a statement out there that let’s make this fight happen. I want Darchinyan and I know that Darchinyan wants to fight me. So lets stop all the BS and lets make the fight happen.”

 

good news.

 

A chance for the Darchinyans to go 2/1 ahead over the Donaires.

Go the bull!

 

Go Vic! This should be a ripper.

 

Donaire boxed his ears off the first time round. Good chance he can do it again.
Hope this one happens. Should be a great fight.

 

Awesome, hope Vic has learnt from their first encounter and squares the ledger.

 

I hope this fight gets made.....and that Vic will box and not load up early.

 

bad news..
The fight is off.
Could be Donaire vs Montiel now.

 

?.....

 

By Ronnie Nathanielsz

The eagerly awaited rematch between WBA super flyweight interim champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire and WBC/WBA champion Vic Darchinyan is off. After Top Rank CEO told us a deal was done, it fell apart on Tuesday.

Donaire and his wife Rachael, along with manager Cameron Dunkin, met with Top Rank president Todd duBeof in Las Vegas on Tuesday after which Donaire’s wife informed us that Top Rank claimed that Darchinyan himself “didn’t want anything to do with Nonito.”

Asked whether the negotiations with Darchinyan’s promoter Gary Shaw fell through over money, she indicated she really didn't know. Shaw told us some weeks ago he had reached an agreement with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum and was waiting for a response from the Darchinyan camp later, but later on he turned around and told us that he was not happy with the deal covering the international television rights particularly since the fight was to be telecast in the Philippines. Under a two year deal with Top Rank, the giant broadcast network ABS-CBN would telecast the fight..

The Donaires were stuck for three hours at the Las Vegas airport while waiting for their return flight to San Francisco and even their mobile phones were down forcing her to communicate with us through Yahoo Messenger.

She revealed that the “plan” of Top Rank was for Nonito to have a tune-up fight in July on the undercard of a Yuriorkis Gamboa fight in Las Vegas after which they would line up a title fight against newly crowned WBC bantamweight champion Fernando “Cochulito” Montiel who is also the reigning WBO champion.

Montiel who won the WBC belt with a stunning 4th round, last second TKO over highly fancied Japanese Hozumi Hasegawa in Tokyo last Friday had said in a post-fight interview that after a rest he wanted to fight Donaire and Darchinyan which provides a window of opportunity for Donaire who has always wanted to fight the best, including Montiel.

Rachael Donaire said Nonito “didn’t feel well and he was just sick to the stomach to hear that the Darchinyan fight fell through.” She said that based on what they were told by Top Rank “now Darchinyan really will look like a coward.”

Donaire who is ranked No. 4 in the latest Ring Magazine pound-for-pound rankings “wants a clear belt at 115 pounds” with Rachael Donaire indicating that is what she told duBeof. The Donaires admitted they were upset when duBeof “kept talking fights with this or that person” and told him “he doesn’t apparently know Nonito.”

She pointed out that “the belts are important to Nonito. It's his dream.” In fact before his last fight against Manuel Vargas at the Las Vegas Hilton on February 13, Donaire told us that he has a blueprint for the future which is to follow the path carved out by pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and o win titles all the way up to junior lightweight where the late Gabriel “Flash” Elorde reigned as world champion for almost seven-and-a-half years.

She lamented the fact that Darchinyan had the belts and that they need to find an opponent who HBO will buy to have fans watch, pointing out that WBO champion Jorge Arce “won’t fight” Donaire, which leaves only IBF super flyweight champion Simphiwe Nongqayi who won the title beating Arce handily in Mexico last September.

Our efforts to contact promoter Gary Shaw, who is always most accommodating, to find out what was going on unfortunately failed although we were able to leave a call back number.

 

I'm of the opinion that Mrs.Donaire is not being entirely truthful.

Not even a little bit.

 

So who **** out then Leon and what makes you think she's telling porkies ?