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Top Rank Promotions' CEO Bob Arum has elevated WBA interim super flyweight (115 pounds) titlist Nonito Donaire of the Philippines into Saturday night's main event at The Pond in Anaheim, Calif., opposite Ukrainian WBA bantamweight (118 pounds) champion Voldymyr Sydorenko, this, as a result of an illness to another fighter on the card.Jose Pinzon (18-1, 12 knockouts) has replaced Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (40-0-1, 30 KOs) in a super middleweight (168 pounds) fight against junior middleweight (154 pounds) Pawel Wolak (27-1, 17 KOs), with Chavez having woken up with "a 103-degree fever," according to Arum.
In victory over Sydorenko (22-2-2, seven KOs), the 28-year-old Donaire (24-1, 16 KOs), who is nicknamed "The Filipino Flash," would remain on pace for a planned HBO televised Feb. 19 showdown with 31-year-old WBO and WBC bantamweight titlist Fernando Montiel (43-2-2, 33 KOs) of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mex.
FanHouse caught up to Donaire for this Q&A in Texas, where he was on hand for a Nov. 13 bout at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium between southpaw WBO welterweight (147 pounds) and WBC junior middleweight (154 pounds) king Manny Pacquiao' (52-3-2, 38 KOs) and ex-titlist Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs), that latter of whom lost by unanimous decision.
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