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Pound-for-pound entrant Nonito Donaire will make a return trip to the Big Apple as he faces Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba in a unification world super-bantamweight title fight on April 13.
Top Rank chief Bob Arum said yesterday that the 6,000-capacity Radio City Music Hall in midtown Manhattan in New York will be the venue of one of the most keenly-awaited matchups of the year.
?We?ll be coming out with an official announcement very soon,? said Arum from the Top Rank headquarters in Las Vegas.
Donaire, who had a breakout 2012 with four smashing victories, meets a livewire opponent in Rigondeaux, a two-time Olympic and two-time world amateur champion.
Donaire had initially wanted a faceoff with Abner Mares, the Mexican-American who is under the promotional banner of Oscar De La Hoya?s Golden Boy Promotions (GBP).
But Top Rank and GBP simply could not come to terms, paving the way for Arum to just zero in on Rigondeaux, who is also under contract with him.
Donaire, 30, brings to the ring a 30-1-0 win-loss-draw record with 20 knockouts and the fearsome reputation of a deadly finisher.
Rigondeaux, 32, is obvioulsy undaunted as he is drooling over the prospects of colliding with the Filipino-American puncher.
Meanwhile, Arum said it?s green and go for the April 6 he is staging at the Venetian Hotel in Macau, featuring Top Rank?s newest acquisition, Chinese Olympic legend Zou Shiming.
The card will be headlined by the world flyweight title clash between Fil-Am Brian Viloria and Mexican Juan Francisco Estrada.
