Donaire Vs Darchinyan II

The "Filipino Flash" Nonito Donaire will once again try to prove that his 5th round stoppage of "The Raging Bull" Vic Darchinyan last July 7, 2007 was no luck. The fight is almost at hand. Promoter Gary Shaw says he's just waiting for Vic Darchinyan's camp to approve the deal for the much-awaited rematch with WBA Interim champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire which Darchinyan had been shouting out for and claiming Donaire was scared to face him. "I gave them the proposal and now I’m waiting to hear from them", Shaw said.

The well known promoter confirmed that “most everything else between myself and Top Rank is done but Elias Nassar has to tell me it’s a go. They have not told me that yet.”

Arum told us “Donaire is going to fight a tune-up fight on May 15 and then he’s going to fight Darchinyan in Los Angeles at the Home Depot Center on August 7.” However, he still didn’t know who Donaire will fight in the tune-up bout. 

Darchinyan recently won via unanimous decision over Mexican Rodrigo Guerrero who was fighting outside his country for the very first time. The fight lasted 12 rounds. Guerrero who had a record of 13-1-1 going into the fight was coming off a KO win over unheralded Rey Lopez last December 18. Prior to that he won a unanimous eight round decision over Luis Maldonado, the same fighter who was pulverized by Donaire and lost by an 8th round TKO in an IBF/IBO flyweight title bout in December 2007. 

“He's scared. Here are two belts. If you already knocked him out, why not come and get these two belts. I don't want to mention his name anymore. It's not fair. I want to move up and fight better champions.", the Austrian claimed.

 

Darchinyan, 34 suffered a one-punch knockout that sent him reeling across the ring in a daze in the 5th round in a title fight on July 7, 2007 in which Darchinyan lost both his IBF and IBO flyweight titles in the “Knockout of the Year” claimed in a post fight interview with Steve Farhood of Showtime that he thinks Donaire is scared to give him a rematch.

Win-Loss-Draw Record

Nonito Donaire, Jr.   vs  Vic Darchinyan

Win:	22	34
Loss:	1	2
Draw:	0	1
KO:	14	27
Total Fights:	23	37
Win %:	96%	92%
KO %:	64%	79%

Source: http://www.philboxing.com/ & http://boxrec.com





Donaire vs. Darchinyan - July 7, 2007