Dan Rafael of espn.com is reporting that Nonito Donaire gave up his IBF Jr. Featherweight bout before his Saturday but with Toshiaki Nishioka.
The reasons were that Donaire did not want to participate in the IBF’s next morning weigh-in and saving $40,000 in sanctioning fees.
“So my recommendation was save the money instead of paying it and being stripped later when he wound up not fighting the (Ndlovu-Lopez) winner,” said Donaire’s manager Cameron Dunkin.
“We respect the IBF’s rules and, by the same token, we respect Donaire’s decision to not defend the title and give the opportunity to fight for the title to somebody else,” Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti said. “But the fact is, Donaire versus whoever that winds up being probably is an unsellable fight.”
