Nonito Donaire Jr. tests with former French and European Union super bantamweight champion Anthony Settoul in a non-title fight on July 18 at The Venetian in Macau.
The five-division champion, who scored a second-round KO win over William Prado of Brazil last March at Araneta Coliseum, hopes to inch closer to a title fight in the 122-pound division that he dominated for three years.
Now with 34 wins, three losses with 22 knockouts, the 32-year-old Donaire will face Settoul (20-3 with 8 KOs), who has won six of his nine previous fights via stoppage.
It will be Donaire’s second stint in Macau, boxing’s mecca in the region, after beating South Africa’s Simpiwe Vetyeka last year for the WBA featherweight title.
But his reign in the 126-lb division didn’t last long as he lost to Nicholas Walters of Jamaica via a devastating sixth-round knockout at StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Donaire is looking at a shot at WBA super bantamweight Scott Quigg who will face Kiko Martinez in the same card.