Vic heaping pressure on opponent before crucial bout
By Suren Musayelyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Published: 31 October, 2008
Boxing
In what some media suggested was a little over the top, an Armenian professional boxer turned on more pressure on his next opponent by issuing bold threats to him ahead of a weekend fight.
Darchinyan boasts to ‘finish’ his opponent in the November 1 fight. Vic Darchinyan, a 32-year-old Armenia-born Australian who currently holds the IBF super-flyweight champion’s title, sounded super-confident before his November 1 fight against Mexico’s Cristian Mijares for the WBC and WBA belts, as he threatened to “damage” the holder, “finish him” and “break him in half.” “I’m going to make him look like a very silly fighter and I’m going to knock him out,” Darchinyan said of Mijares, as quoted by MiamiHerald.com. “He’s going to be punished.”
Darchinyan (30-1, 24 KOs) won the International Boxing Federation junior-bantamweight title with a fifth-round technical knockout against Dimitri Kirilov on August 2. Earlier, Darchinyan also had a 30-month run as IBF flyweight champion.
Meanwhile, media quoted Mijares (36-3, 15 KOs) showing a more amiable approach to the “Raging Bull”.
“I have no bad blood toward Darchinyan, he’s the one doing all the talking. He’s not my enemy, he’s my opponent,” the 27-year-old Mexican said. “He just likes to talk too much, but I like that. It makes the fight more interesting for me. Words won’t prove anything.”
The three-belt unification fight is due at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., USA (Nov. 1st, 9 pm ET/PT).
