2<\/p>\n Donaire wants to face Australian cult hero Moloney on the planned Australia billCredit: GETTY<\/p>\n The Briton has overcome health issues and is eyeing a comeback, with the fight being explored to take place later this year in Australia.<\/p>\n Zerafa has suggested a deal is almost done.<\/p>\n And now 43-year-old Donaire has dropped another big hint that the card is close to getting over the line.<\/p>\n He told Ring Magazine<\/a>: “Yeah there is a fight coming up between Chris Eubank Jr and Michael Zerafa.<\/p>\n Read More In Boxing<\/p>\n “And yeah allowing me to fight on that card with Jason Moloney is going to be great.<\/p>\n “It is years we’ve been trying to get that fight, and that is something we are in deep conversations for.<\/p>\n “There is no escape, I’m coming down to his town and it will be a really interesting fight.<\/p>\n “That is the opportunity, and it will be under a great fight in Zerafa, who I will help train for Chris Eubank Jr.<\/p>\n “They can’t take the fight from me. That is the talk right now.”<\/p>\n Donaire was beaten in his last outing being stopped by Riku Masuda in March.<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n Eubank Jr is expected to now take on Zerafa in his first fight since losing to BennCredit: Getty<\/p>\n But he still feels he has more left to give the sport despite being beyond his prime years of physical condition.<\/p>\n Eubank Jr – what does the future hold?<\/p>\n ‘Next Gen’ looked a shadow of himself in his last fight with Benn<\/a>, where his physical struggles were shown to the public.<\/p>\n But due to his commercial selling power, Eubank Jr has decided there is still some big fights available.<\/p>\n Victory over Zerafa in a big fight in Australia will see him make a splash in a new region.<\/p>\n And it will help him get his name back in the mix, in hopes that he can fight for a 168lbs world title before the end of his career.<\/p>\n A potential showdown with Canelo Alvarez<\/a> could be revisited, particularly if he beats Christian Mbilli in his signed clash for the WBC title in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nonito Donaire is finalising an agreement to face Jason Moloney in what could land on Chris Eubank Jr’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,26599,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-chris-eubank-jr","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Nonito](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1358529566.jpg\")
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