It's fight night, and we will be live inside New York City's famous Radio City Music Hall for the highly anticipated super bantamweight championship fight between Nonito Donaire and Guillermo Rigondeaux.
Donaire (31-1, 20 KO) comes into the fight fresh off being named the 2012 Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year for a campaign that included four wins over world-class opposition.
He sits just inside the top five of most people's pound-for-pound lists and holds the WBO super bantamweight title
Rigondeaux (11-0, 8 KO), on the other hand, is a relative newcomer to the professional ranks after a standout amateur career in Cuba which saw him twice win Olympic Gold in 2000 and 2004.
He has won all 11 of his pro fights since defecting from Cuba in 2009 and captured the interim WBA super bantamweight title in just his seventh bout and the full title in his ninth.
The lead-in to the fight has been characterized by both fighters and their camps engaging in a great deal of trash talk, which promises to translate into fireworks in the ring.
We hope you'll join us tonight here at Bleacher Report for all your live round-by-round analysis and scoring of one of 2013's most hotly anticipated fights!
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