Donaire, Chavez headline doubleheader

THREE-DIVISION world champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire and undefeated world middleweight champion and the son of the legendary  Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will headline a world title doubleheader, Saturday, February 4, at the Alamodome in San Antonio. 
Donaire will rumble with former junior featherweight champion Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior featherweight title.  The fights will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing®, beginning at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT. Chávez Jr. will be taking on No. 1 contender Marco Antonio Rubio.  
Donaire (27-1, 18 KOs), a native of General Santos City, Philippines, now living in the Bay Area of San Leandro, Calif., is a consensus top-five pound for pound fighter.  He enters this fight riding a nine-year, 26-bout winning streak, which includes an IBF/IBO flyweight title fifth round knockout victory over defending champion Vic Darchinyan, and a fourth-round blasting of former WBA bantamweight champion Wladimir Sidorenko, December 4, 2010. However, Donaire’s most impressive victory occurred on February 19, when he knocked out defending WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel in the second round, ending Montiel’s 25-bout winning streak while also claiming his third world title in as many weight divisions.  That victory has been named the 2011 Knockout of the Year.  Ten of Donaire’s last 12 victories have come by way of knockout. In his last fight, Donaire successfully defended his World Bantamweight Championship blitzing undefeated Omar Narvaez and winning virtually every round en route to a unanimous decision win.
Vazquez (21-1-1, 18 KOs), of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, strung together a four-year, 21-bout unbeaten streak, beginning with his pro debut, culminating with Vazquez winning the WBO junior featherweight championship.  Vazquez captured the world title in 2010, knocking out Marvin Sonsona in the fourth round.  He successfully defended the title twice during the following eight months, scoring knockouts of Zsolt Bedak and Ivan Hernandez in the 10th and 11th rounds, respectively.  After losing the title to Jorge Arce in May, he bounced back in October with a third-round knockout of Roberto Leyva.   [TOP RANK BOXING]