Jeffrey Mathebula

Nonito Donaire  will face Jorge Arce on Dec. 15, with Guillermo Rigondeaux slated for the undercard at the Toyota Center in Houston.

Unbeaten junior welterweight Brandon Rios is an ambassador for  the non-profit organization, Padres Contra El Cancer, or, Parents Against Cancer.

THE RING's No.-1 rated-junior featherweight Toshiaki Nishioka on what it would mean to defeat WBO/IBF titleholder Nonito Donaire for the vacant RING belt: "I want to be the world champion, not just a Japanese champion."

Trainer Robert Garcia believes Nonito Donaire's speed and power will overwhelm Toshiaki Nishioka, who has not lost in nearly nine years.

Nonito Donaire on facing Toshiaki Nishioka: "You have to find the fighters who can challenge you and who will put you at risk. You put yourself at risk of losing, at risk of getting hurt, at risk of losing your life. That's all part of boxing."

Nonito Donaire will face junior featherweight Toshiaki Nishioka after former lightweight beltholder Brandon Rios makes his junior welterweight debut in a clash of unbeatens with Mike Alvarado on Oct. 13.

WBO junior featherweight beltholder Nonito Donaire will defend his crown against former titleholder Toshiaki Nishioka on Oct. 13 at Home Depot Center. Brandon Rios makes his junior welterweight debut against Mike Alvarado on the undercard.

WBA junior featherweight titleholder Guillermo Rigondeaux will pursue his fourth straight knockout victory against Robert Marroquin on Sept. 15 in Las Vegas.

Manager Cameron Dunkin's plan for Mikey Garcia is to match him against Orlando Salido in the fall, while the hope for Brandon Rios is a fight with Juan Manuel Marquez.

CompuBox punch-counter Lee Groves relives fight night in Carson, Calif., where Nonito Donaire unified two 122-pound belts against Jeffrey Mathebula. Groves, who had strong opinions on Donaire's margin of victory, tries to bridge the gap between the numbers and the scorecards.

Images from Carson, Calif., of Nonito Donaire's unanimous decision win against Jeffrey Mathebula and Kelly Pavlik's one-sided victory over Will Rosinsky.

Ringtv.com asked a panel of boxing insiders what will happen when WBO junior featherweight beltholder Nonito Donaire faces his tallest opponent yet in IBF counterpart Jeffrey Mathebula on Saturday.

Nonito Donaire made a July 4 guest appearance on the Spanish-language sports show Nación ESPN to promote his title-unification matchup with Jeffrey Mathebula this weekend in Carson, Calif.

Junior featherweights Nonito Donaire and Jeffrey Mathebula, and super middleweights Kelly Pavlik and Will Rosinsky met the press at Fortune Gym in Hollywood, Calif.

Junior featherweight titleholders Nonito Donaire and Jeffrey Mathebula talk about their HBO-televised unification bout on Saturday. Donaire says he's ready for the best of 122-pound division. Mathebula says Donaire won't get past him.

Nonito Donaire says if fellow 122-pound titleholders Guillermo Rigondeaux and Abner Mares really want to fight him, those showdowns will happen, but his first junior featherweight unification bout will come against towering IBF beltholder Jeffrey Mathebula on Saturday. 

This Saturday against Nonito Donaire, Jeffrey Mathebula will have a chance to do something no South African fighter has ever done.

Undefeated junior lightweight titleholder Adrien Broner, who defends his WBO title against Vicente Escobedo in his native Cincinnati on July 21, will be featured in HBO's short documentary "2 Days: Adrien Broner" on July 7.

Nonito Donaire's manager, Cameron Dunkin, calls the WBO junior featherweight titleholder "pound-for-pound, maybe the best fighter in the world."

Nonito Donaire training in San Carlos, Calif., to face IBF junior featherweight titleholder Jeffrey Mathebula on July 7, in what he says will be the first step towards unifying the division.

WBO 122-pound titleholder Nonito Donaire says he wants to unify the junior featherweight division beginning with IBF beltholder Jeffrey Mathebula, who he faces on July 7 in Carson, Calif.

Showtime commentator and former light heavyweight titleholder Antonio Tarver has been suspended and fined $2,500 after a positive drug test for the anabolic steroid drostanolone.

WBO junior featherweight titleholder Nonito Donaire will pioneer a move for year-round, random drug testing of blood and urine to be conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association.

Former middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik will return to the ring on July 7 against Will Rosinsky. The Pavlik-Rosinky fight replaces the cancelled Brandon Rios-Mauricio Herrera bout that was scheduled on the Boxing Arter Dark card.

Brandon Rios injured his right arm during sparring on Tuesday and has to pull out of a scheduled July bout against Mauricio Herrera.

Trainer Freddie Roach says he had a bad feeling as soon as he heard the first scorecard being read after Manny Pacquiao's fight against Tim Bradley.

Nonito Donaire and Brandon Rios will be the featured fighters in an HBO-televised double-header from the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., on July 7.