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Nonito Donaire wants a chance to avenge his knockout loss to Nicholas Walters.
“The Filipino Flash” just won’t do something he considers foolish, like chase Walters to 130 pounds, to make it happen. The 33-year-old Donaire’s third fight since Walters knocked him out nearly 14 months ago is scheduled for Friday night at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where Donaire (35-3, 23 KOs) will meet Mexico’s Cesar Juarez (17-3, 13 KOs) in a 12-round fight truTV will televise as part of a telecast set to begin at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
The contracted weight for the Donaire-Juarez fight is the super bantamweight limit of 122 pounds. Jamaica’s Walters (26-0, 21 KOs) is scheduled to face Jason Sosa (18-1-3, 14 KOs), of Camden, N.J., in a 10-round, 130-pound fight Dec. 19 in Verona, N.Y. (HBO).
“I’m not gonna chase anybody,” Donaire said on a recent conference call. “I wanna make the [Walters] fight happen, but I’m not gonna be foolish enough to go up two weight classes or a weight class, where I know the experiences I’ve had in the past have led me to making the right decisions. I’m willing to fight anybody, but it has to be in a fair atmosphere.”
Walters and Donaire fought at the featherweight limit of 126 pounds in October 2014. Walters dropped Donaire in the third and sixth rounds of that bout, which referee Raul Caiz Jr. stopped in the sixth round at StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Donaire, a Las Vegas resident, also mentioned that he’d like to challenge Ukraine’s Vasyl Lomachenko (5-1, 3 KOs) for Lomachenko’s WBO featherweight title if Donaire defeats Juarez on Friday night. Lomachenko, 27, needs to face a high-profile fighter after three straight wins against unknown opposition, but the two-time Olympic gold medalist might be an option for the 29-year-old Walters as well if Walters wins against Sosa.
“I’ll fight anybody,” Donaire said. “I never back down from anybody. Whoever it may be, I’m all in. … I’m a fighter, therefore I shall fight anybody out there that is able or wanting to fight me.”