LAS VEGAS — WBA acting cool flyweight (115 pounds) titlist Nonito Donaire denticulate his 25th beeline achievement and 10th abeyance in his accomplished 12 fights with Saturday night’s HBO televised additional annular knockout in a bantamweight (118 pounds) showdown over WBO and WBC best Fernando Montiel from the Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Donaire alone his battling with a beauteous larboard hook, followed by a abbreviate appropriate uppercut, that larboard his accoutrements ample over his arch and both legs twitching. Montiel rose on capricious legs, fell aback down, and then, rose, yet again, and stumbled into adjudicator Russell Mora.
Mora brushed off Montiels gloves afore acceptance the action to continue. But Donaire pounced on the abandoned Montiel, who was continuing abreast his own corner, and landed a distinct larboard angle afore Mora stepped in to assure Montiel from added abuse at 2:25 of the round.
“I hit him with the larboard angle and I looked down, and I saw that his legs were twitching, and I knew that the action was over,” said Donaire, who bigger to 26-1, with 18 knockouts.
“I had a apprehension that this would happen,” said Donaire. “I told my trainer, Robert Garcia, in camp, afore Christmas, that it would be a second-round knockout.”
In achievement over the 31-year-old Montiel (44-3-2, 34 knockouts), the 28-year-old Donaire (26-1, 18 KOs) defeated a man who is amid bristles Mexican fighters to accept won apple titles over the advance of three capacity — the others actuality WBA and WBO failing (135 pounds) titlist Juan Manuel Marquez (51-5-1, 38 KOs), Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. (107-6-2, 86 KOs), Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KOs) and Marco Antonio Barrera (66-7, 43 KOs).
The bender was the additional for Donaire as a bantamweight, afterward December’s fourth-round knockout of Volodymyr Sydorenko (22-2-2, seven KOs), whose adenoids he bankrupt during a bender in which Sydorenko was alone already anniversary in the first, third, and, fourth rounds.
Montiel was advancing off of April’s amazing fourth-round knockout over Hozumi Hasegawa (29-3, 12 KOs), a man who was in look of his sixth beeline abeyance during a 25-fight acceptable band that had included 11 knockouts.
Montiel was advised in his bathrobe room, and was taken to the University Medical Center’s agony assemblage for precautions.
“I knew that we both had the ability to beating anniversary added out,” said Montiel. “But I fabricated the aboriginal mistake, and I paid for it.”
Donaire’s affray with Montiel connected the animosity amorphous by Philippines agriculturist and WBO welterweight (147 pounds) titlist, Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs), who has been nicknamed, “The Mexicutioner,” for his ascendancy of fighters from that country.
Now it appears that Donaire will abide that run.
Donaire hopes to accept anchored abeyant affinity bouts adjoin the champ of an April 23, Showtime televised bender up amid unbeaten, 25-year-old, Mexican-born, IBO and WBC argent belt baron Abner Mares (21-0-1, 13 KOs), of Montebello, Calif., and Africa’s, 30-year-old backstab IBF best Joseph Agbeko (28-2, 22 KOs) that is slated for the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
The WBA’s bantamweight baron is 25-year-old southpaw Anselmo Moreno (30-1-1, 10 KOs) of Panama, who has a Feb. 26 aegis adjoin 32-year-old Lorenzo Parra (31-2-1, 18 KOs) of Venezuela.
Nicknamed “The Filipino Flash,” Donaire is attractive to chase the aisle of Pacquiao, who becoming his almanac eighth acme over as abounding altered weight capacity with November’s accepted accommodation over ex-champion, Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) for the WBC’s inferior middleweight (154 pounds) belt.
Top Rank Promotions CEO Bob Arum has compared Donaire, who walks about at 135 pounds, agreeably to Pacquiao, whom Donaire said is, “definitely an afflatus in my career.”
Besides the Agbeko-Mares winner, Arum has a promotional abiding of fighters adjoin whom he could bender Donaire. There are Canadian southpaw IBF cool bantamweight (122 pounds) baron Steve Molitor (33-1, 12 KOs), and, WBO adverse allotment Wilfredo Vazquez (20-0-1, 17 KOs).
There are WBA and IBF agile (126 pounds) baron Yuriorkis Gamboa (19-0, 15 KOs) and WBO adverse allotment Juan Manuel Lopez (29-0, 26 KOs).
Down the alley at failing (135 pounds), there are abeyant bouts adverse star, Brandon Rios (26-0-1, 19 KOs), who will accommodated WBA champ Miguel Acosta (28-3, 22 KOs) in a Showtime televised bender on Feb. 26, or WBC failing champ, Humberto Soto (54-7-2, 32 KOs), who has an HBO televised, May 7 rematch with Urbano Antillon (28-2, 20 KOs) afterwards accepting baffled him by accepted decision.
