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So much for Top Rank promoter Bob Arum's plans to match newly crowned junior featherweight titlist Victor Terrazas with either Vic Darchinyan on the Aug. 3 Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. undercard in Mexico City, or with former titleholder Nonito Donaire in ...

LAS VEGAS -- Before Abner Mares vacated his junior featherweight title in order to move up to featherweight, he campaigned hard for a unification fight with fellow titleholder Nonito Donaire. That would have been a big fight and was one so many boxin...

Former junior featherweight titlist Nonito Donaire is recovering from right shoulder surgery that followed his unanimous decision loss to Guillermo Rigondeaux in their 122-pound title unification fight on April 13.

Guillermo Rigondeaux proved he was the quicker, more crafty fighter against Nonito Donaire on Saturday, but he'll need more than that to draw audiences worthy of a superstar in the future.

Guillermo Rigondeaux might not have won any new fans, but he slipped punches and picked his spots Saturday in New York to outbox Nonito Donaire for a unanimous decision and unify junior featherweight titles.

Felix Verdejo scored a crushing first-round knockout of Steve Gutierrez on Saturday, in the undercard of the Nonito Donaire-Guillermo Rigondeaux junior featherweight title fight.

Nonito Donaire initially had no interest in facing relatively untested Guillermo Rigondeaux, but now that Saturday's 122-pound unification fight is at hand, he says he's as excited as the rest of us.

Junior featherweight titleholder Nonito Donaire will meet Guillermo Rigondeaux April 13 in the main event of HBO's "World Championship Boxing".

Last July, Nonito Donaire cruised past Jeffrey Mathebula to unify two of the junior featherweight world titles. However, before Donaire's next fight, an October bout against former titleholder Toshiaki Nishioka, Donaire vacated the belt he won agains...

Junior featherweight titlist Abner Mares, unable to make the fight he really wants -- a unification bout with Nonito Donaire -- is vacating his world title and moving up to the featherweight division.

Junior featherweight titleholder Nonito Donaire, who had a dominant 2012 campaign, was voted Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year in balloting results announced on Sunday by the Boxing Writers Association of America.

Golden Boy chief executive Richard Schaefer, Abner Mares' promoter, sent a formal offer of $3 million to Nonito Donaire promoter Top Rank in order to make the fight.

Yes, 2012 is in the books, but beyond last week's daily annual awards for fighter, knockout, round, prospect and fight of the year, here is part 1 of some additional awards: Trainer of the year: This was a slam dunk: Robert Garcia had a huge year ...

Over the course of two meetings, one on Dec. 1 in New York on the day the Austin Trout-Miguel Cotto fight and one on Dec. 8 in Las Vegas on the day of the Juan Manuel Marquez-Manny Pacquiao IV, members of the Boxing Writers Association of America met...

Juan Manuel Marquez's rock-a-bye right hand against Manny Pacquiao -- an epic equalizer in an all-time great rivalry -- is ESPN.com's 2012 KO of the year.

Nonito Donaire won four fights against strong competition in 2012 -- sometimes in spectacular fashion -- and did so while proving himself clean in a sport rife with PED issues. For that, he earns ESPN.com's boxer of the year award.