By Lem Satterfield, FanHouseWBA interim super flyweight (115 pounds) champion Nonito Donaire, who scored two knockdowns on the way to Saturday's eighth-round knockout of challenger Hernan "Tyson" Marquez, will seek a potential November bout with WBO bantamweight (118 pounds) titlist, Fernando Montiel, followed by one opposite WBO super bantamweight (122 pounds) king, Wilfredo Vazquez Jr., his promoter, Bob Arum, said.
Against Marquez, Donaire scored his 24th victory against one loss, and his 16th knockout in Saturday night's Showtime-televised bout at Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"We're hoping and we believe that, thanks to Showtime, Nonito's next fight will be for the bantamweight title against the legendary champion Montiel, and we'll be putting that together in the next couple of weeks," said Arum during a post-fight press conference. "You could see his great skills that he has, and what a tremendous boxer and fighter that he is," said Arum. "Hopefully, if he gets beyond Montiel, then his next goal is to fight Vazquez, the Puerto Rican 122-pound champion. And so, there's a lot of big fights for him in the months and the years ahead."
Nicknamed "The Filipino Flash," the 27-year-old Donaire improved his winning streak to 23 fights with knockouts against eight of his last 10 opponents.
Having had trouble maintaining the 115-pound weight limit, Donaire had vowed that Marquez would be his final bout in that division.
"Nonito has one weakness, and that's that he likes to eat," said Arum. "He's been starving himself fighting at 115. So at least he'll be able to eat a little bit more while he gets ready for his fights."
Donaire would next like a shot at the 31-year-old Montiel (41-2-2, 31 KOs), who has a July 17 clash with Rafael Concepcion (14-4-1, 8 KOs) in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico.
Montiel is coming off of April's fourth-round knockout over Hozumi Hasegawa, this after having scored February's first-round knockout over Ciso Morales.
The 26-year-old Vazquez, of Bayon, Puerto Rico, is nicknamed, "WV 2." The son of the former world champion by the same name, Vazquez Jr. (19-0-1, 16 KOs) has won four straight fights by knockout, and is riding a 10-fight winning streak that includes eight stoppages.
Vazquez is coming off of a May, 29, 10th-round knockout of previously undefeated Zsolt "Mr. Left hook" Bedak (15-1, five KOs), of Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday night at Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez, Bayamon, P.R.
In February, Vazquez earned the WBO crown by scoring a fourth-round stoppage of previously unbeaten Marvin Sonsona (14-1-1, 12 KOs), of General Santos City, Philippines, who was being called "The Next Manny Pacquiao."
"Bob, you just made my day when you said Montiel and maybe Vazquez. You know, this is the dream that I've been wanting," said Donaire.
"Everybody in my facebook and my Twitter has been saying, 'when are you going to fight the best out there?' and, 'when are you going to fight guys who are elite?' Thank you for giving me that and opening that door for me."
Donaire said that he fought the first four rounds against Marquez as a southpaw due to an injury to his left leg.
"Like I had mentioned before, I had this injury in my left leg that made me turn and fight as a southpaw. [Trainer] Roberto Garcia and my team decided to turn me southpaw. So this is the first time that I've fought southpaw. I mean, I've always fought as a right-hander," said Donaire.
"This was an experimental fight. I tried to figure him out, but the things that we worked were difficult to use on him because he was very short," said Donaire. "So every time that we tried to duck down, he was right in front of me. It was an experience. And when I said, 'enough is enough,' I turned right-handed and I took him out."
Source: boxing.fanhouse.com
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