Nonito Donaire boxer

Nonito Gonzales Donaire Jr. OLD (Tagalog: noˈnito doˈnaɪre; born November 16, 1982) is a Filipino professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes from flyweight to featherweight, including the WBC bantamweight title since May 2021. In addition to being the oldest boxer in history to become a bantamweight world champion, Donaire holds the distinction of being the first three-time champion in that weight class. He has also held world championships across three consecutive decades: the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s, being the sixth boxer to do so after Evander Holyfield, Manny Pacquiao, Bernard Hopkins, Érik Morales, and Floyd Mayweather Jr.In total, Donaire has held nine world titles by the main four boxing sanctioning bodies, as well as the IBO flyweight title, the WBA interim super flyweight title, and the Ring magazine and lineal super bantamweight titles. As of June 2021, Donaire is ranked as the world's second best active bantamweight by The Ring, BoxRec, the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and ESPN.Donaire is popularly known as "The Filipino Flash" due to his fast hand speed and punching power, and is a two-time winner of The Ring's Knockout of the Year award, in 2007 and 2011. He reached a peak pound for pound ranking of third by The Ring in 2011, and was named Fighter of the Year in 2012 by the Boxing Writers Association of America. Donaire is one of a select few Asian boxers to win world titles in at least four weight classes, along with fellow Filipinos Manny Pacquiao and Donnie Nietes.Donaire was born in Talibon, Bohol, Philippines, the third of four children to Nonito C. Donaire, Sr. (born 1959, South Cotabato) and Imelda M. Gonzales (born 1950, Talibon). His older brother is former boxer Glenn Donaire, and his cousin is former boxer Richard Donaire.Until he was six years of age, Donaire lived in General Santos City, South Cotabato and attended the same school as future eight-division world champion, Manny Pacquiao. Donaire was a child of small stature and was bullied.