HBO keeping Feb 19th aside for Fernando Montiel vs Nonito Donaire

Nonito Donaire, who moves to bantamweight to face former WBA champion Wladimir Sidorenko on December 4 as part of Top Rank's scheduled pay-per-view, will make double than what he would have made for Showtime's bantamweight tournament. Donaire's manager Cameron Dunkin told the Los Angeles Times that Donaire is making $300,000 for Sidorenko, where he would have made only $150,000 for the first round of the Showtime tourney.

Top Rank CEO Bob Arum told the paper that February 19 has been set aside for an HBO televised showdown between Donaire and Montiel, assuming both win later this year. Donaire says the winner of his fight with Montiel can face the tournament winner at some point in 2011. Donaire's manager expects Abner Mares to win by overcoming Vic Darchinyan on December 11 and then beating the Yonnhy Perez-Joseph Agbeko winner.

"I was the first guy they asked to be in that tournament," Donaire said. "It wasn't my decision to make. I was a bit upset, but now that they've got me Montiel, I'm happy. Now, I can get Montiel and the tournament winner can fight whoever wins our fight."

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WOOOOOOOOOO FRAKIN HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hopefully

Why does this have to wait until February? Get your asses in the ring now (especially Nonito)!

Doesnt this sound great , but I highly doubt the winner of Montiel-Donaire fights the winner of the Bantom tourney. How many times have we expected the top fighters to face off? plenty of times and it almost never happens. These promoters arent working with each and the fighters dont want to fight the best.

NJBeatdown86 wrote:

Why does this have to wait until February? Get your asses in the ring now (especially Nonito)!

they both have a fight prior to their meeting. nonito i believe will be on the dec 4th undercard so its a good way to hype up the fight.

marbleheadmaui wrote:

WOOOOOOOOOO FRAKIN HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh yeah baby i'm feeling this fight too. it's about time that Donaire got fighting somebody with credibilty, whether it's his fault or not, it's about time. Montiel is a f*****g good fighter. Donaire is also pretty damn hot. this fight should be explosive and a highly skilled contest. the rest of the division can rot for all i care if this fight turns out to be a scorcher, maybe a trilogy could be on the cards

dbudge87 wrote:

marbleheadmaui wrote:

WOOOOOOOOOO FRAKIN HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh yeah baby i'm feeling this fight too. it's about time that Donaire got fighting somebody with credibilty, whether it's his fault or not, it's about time. Montiel is a f*****g good fighter. Donaire is also pretty damn hot. this fight should be explosive and a highly skilled contest. the rest of the division can rot for all i care if this fight turns out to be a scorcher, maybe a trilogy could be on the cards

wtf?

as in "i'd like to rump him" hot, you know just typical non gay boxing stuff

NJBeatdown86 wrote:

Why does this have to wait until February? Get your asses in the ring now (especially Nonito)!

My guess is HBO can't afford it this year.

arent Montiel and Donaire both fighting before christmas already?

dbudge87 wrote:

arent Montiel and Donaire both fighting before christmas already?

YUP
That's why the February date

dbudge87 wrote:

arent Montiel and Donaire both fighting before christmas already?

Donaire is scheduled to fight in December, Montiel was suppose to fight last month but I don't know why it fell through.