Nonito Donaire and Pacquiao/Marquez 24/7 Debuts on HBO This Saturday

The No. 4 pound-for-pound fighter in the world, Nonito Donaire, returns this Saturday, October 22nd on HBO's Boxing After Dark to defend his WBC bantamweight title against undefeated Argentinian Omar Narvaez, who is currently a champion at super featherweight.

After such an impressive destructive knockout victory over former pound-for-pound WBC bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel last February, most fight fans and media were thirsting for Donaire to step back into the ring.

But, he was out for most of the rest of 2011 due to negotiations with his promoter Top Rank and a brief cold war with rival promoter Golden Boy promotions, who at one point claimed to have officially acquired and signed him assuming his contract was up.

Donaire is now currently back with Top Rank, and it appears the promotions team is now willing and ready to promote him like the true star that he is, both inside and outside the ring. And, that is one of the reasons why Donaire vs. Narvaez is taking place in the world-famous Madison Square Garden in New York.

Donaire, who is Filipino-American from San Leandro, Calif., holds an impressive record of 26(18)-1, having not lost a fight since his second pro fight in 2001.

He has all the makings of becoming a big star with a best-of-both-worlds fighting style.

He has a high ring IQ and can technically break down his opponents, but he's also got tremendous speed and one-punch knockout power that will have most fight fans excited when he perfectly counter-punches and eventually stops his opponents.

Narvaez is undefeated with a perfect record of 35(19)-0-2. This will be his American debut, and he will be stepping up in weight class from super featherweight, where he is a champion.

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Donaire vs. Narvaez from the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York can be seen on HBO's Boxing After Dark on Saturday, Oct. 22nd at 10:30 p.m. ET. The HBO Sports team of Bob Papa, Max Kellerman and Roy Jones Jr. will be ringside for all the action, which will be available in HDTV, closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired and presented in Spanish on HBO Latino.

The fight will re-air on HBO (October 23rd at 8:30 a.m. and October 24th at 12:45 a.m.) and on HBO2 (October 23rd at 4:30 p.m. and October 25th at 11:00 p.m. ET).

Before Donaire vs. Narvaez, all the action begins with the return of boxing's biggest star, Manny Pacquiao, as Pacquiao/Marquez 24/7 debuts at 10:00 p.m. ET in what will be a four-part episode of the award-winning reality program 24/7.

Prior to the live Donaire vs. Narvaez fight, HBO will revisit the Oct. 15th pay-per-view telecast from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. HBO will air highlights of 52-year-old Dewey Bozella’s pro debut versus Larry Hopkins, show select rounds of the dramatic Antonio DeMarco-Jorge Linares lightweight battle and replay the controversial Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson showdown.

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KING J is the Bleacher Report Boxing Community Leader and a Featured Columnist. All information was provided directly to him via email press release from the executive producers of HBO.

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