Donaire-Darchinyan part deux

Vic Darchinyan's six-year wait to avenge his stunning fifth-round knockout loss to Nonito Donaire Jr. is over—he and the Filipino Flash will collide anew in November.

The fight details—date and venue of the non-title bout—however, have yet to be finalized by Top Rank Promotions big boss Bob Arum.

News of Donaire (31-2 with 20 knockouts) agreeing for a rematch against Darchinyan—instead of a rematch with Cuban super-bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux—first came out on Ghana sports radio’s Dennis Mirpuri’s Twitter account.

ESPN boxing writer Dan Rafael later confirmed the news on his Twitter account that Donaire’s return fight will be against the 37-year-old Darchinyan (39-5-1 with 28 KOs).

Donaire, who suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Rigondeaux (12-0 with eight KOs) on April 13 that cost him his World Boxing Association and World Boxing Organization 122-pound titles, is in shape by doing light workouts.

Donaire knocked out Darchinyan, fifth in The Ring magazine’s pound-for-pound ranking in the junior featherweight class, with one minute and 18 seconds left in the fifth round in their July 7, 2007, fight.

He is on a two-fight winning streak—Luis Orlando del Valle of Puerto Rico by unanimous decision and a fourth-round TKO over Mexican Javier Gallo—after absorbing a unanimous-decision setback to Shinsuke Yamanaka of Japan last year.

Donaire is planning to move up to the 126-lb featherweight class after experiencing the difficulty of making the 122-lb limit in his previous fight against Rigondeaux.

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