Nonito Donaire made a splash in his first fight at bantamweight with a violent fourth round stoppage over former world champion Wladimir Sidorenko moments ago in Anaheim, CA live on Top Rank pay-per-view.
The former 115-pound world champion started out quickly and really took the fight to Sidorenko at the end of the first round. Donaire rocked the Ukrainian with a nice variety of power punches and sent him crashing to the canvass with a left hook ? right in the closing moments.
Donaire TKO4 Sidorenko:
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Nonito Donaire made a splash in his first fight at bantamweight with a violent fourth round stoppage over former world champion Wladimir Sidorenko moments ago in Anaheim, CA live on Top Rank pay-per-view.
The former 115-pound world champion started out quickly and really took the fight to Sidorenko at the end of the first round.
Donaire rocked the Ukrainian with a nice variety of power punches and sent him crashing to the canvass with a left hook ? right in the closing moments. Sidorenko was saved by the bell but he looked hurt and outgunned as he went in to survival mode in the second.
Donaire scored another knockdown in the third and put his outgunned foe down for good at 1:48 of Round 4 with another left-right combo. With the win Donaire picked up the vacant WBC continental Americas bantamweight title and improved to 25-1 (17 KOs).
The ?Filipino Flash? is now poised to face Mexican great Fernando Montiel in an eagerly anticipated super-fight tentatively set for Feb. 19, 2011. Donaire said in his post fight interview: ?Fernando Montiel, you know I?m coming for you!?
