Donaire stakes titles in NYC
Nonito Donaire Jr. and Guillermo Rigondeaux will face each other at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City in the unification bout for the junior-featherweight belt on April 13. Top Rank Head Bob Arum, in an interview by ESPN.com’s Dan Rafael, said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) that they have chosen Radio City because Madison Square Garden’s Theatre is booked. “MSG [Executive Vice President] Joel Fisher said maybe he could get Radio City, because the Garden owns it. We said that was a great idea. It’s expensive to do a fight there, but it’s worth it,” Arum said. Arum will officially announce the fight, the main event of HBO’s World Championship Boxing, in a news conference on Thursday in New York City. This will be the second boxing event in Radio City’s 82-year history since January 15, 2000, a light-heavyweight bout between Roy Jones Jr. and David Telesco. “I’ve heard so much about the place and how Roy fought there, and Roy is one of the guys I look up to, so I am ve...