HyeFighter
Vic Darchinyan
Talks About his next Opponent, Agbeko
Two of the
hardest-hitting boxers in the world
participated in a media conference call
Tuesday to discuss their upcoming world
title fight on Saturday, July 11, live on
SHOWTIME at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the
west coast) from the BankAtlantic Center in
Sunrise, Fla. IBF Bantamweight champion
Joseph “King Kong” Agbeko and two division
world champion HyeFighter Vic “Raging Bull”
Darchinyan both possess eye-popping knockout
percentages. Agbeko (26-1, 22 KOs) of Accra,
Ghana, now fighting out of Bronx, N.Y., has
knocked out more than 81 percent of his
opponents while Darchinyan (32-1, 26 KOs),
of Sydney, Australia, by way of Armenia, is
right behind him at 76 percent.
Darchinyan, an Armenian bomber who is a
four-time world champion at flyweight and
super flyweight, will leave his IBF, WBC and
WBA titles at 115 pounds behind to move up
to the 118-pound limit to face the dangerous
Agbeko. If victorious, Darchinyan will
become a three-division world champion.
VIC
DARCHINYAN
“I think after
this fight they are going to change my
opponent’s name to Joseph ‘Chimpanzee’
Agbeko. This is going to be the biggest
mismatch. Where would you like me to hurt
you most? In the body or in the face?
“I can’t spend my career just defending,
defending, defending. I have to move up in
weight and go after more titles. I have the
power to demolish anyone. I’m going to keep
moving up.
“I’ve seen Agbeko’s fights and they don’t
impress me. You will see, nothing compares
to my power. I will knock him out with my
power. I can open my jaw and let him punch
it and he still won’t hurt me.
“I hope he’s working hard and training extra
hard for this fight. I don’t want it to be
an easy fight. I want to be your nightmare
after this fight and not before because I
want you to get a good night’s sleep.
“I’m going to demolish him (Donaire) in a
rematch.”
ELIAS NASSAR,
Darchinyan’s manager:
“There are not a lot of people who don’t
know that every single fight that Vic has
asked for Gary Shaw has delivered on.”
GARY SHAW,
Darchinyan’s promoter:
“I believe I represent probably a fighter
who will go down as one of the greatest
boxers to ever fight in the lower weights in
the history of boxing. Please tell all the
poachers out there that Vic and I are bound
together for life. I want everyone who’s on
this call to hear that.
“Vic only wants to fight the best fighters.
Vic and Elias don’t care about weights. They
only want the best fighters and they believe
right now that “King Kong” Agbeko is the
best fighter at 118 pounds.”
RESULTS - Vanes Martirosyan WINS via TKO
HyeFighter
Vanes Martirosyan
TKO's Tsurkan
Hours after
fellow HyeFighter and friend Arthur Abraham
scored a decisive 10th round knockout in
Berlin, Germany, undefeated junior
middleweight HyeFighter Vanes Martirosyan
(25-0, 16KO) cruised in what was supposed to
be the biggest test of his career. The 2004
US Olympian hit Andrey Tsurkan (26-5, 17KO)
with every punch in the book before the
fight was stopped after six violently
one-sided rounds.
There were no
knockdowns in the fight, although
Martirosyan had him badly hurt in the
fourth, and progressively grew more vicious
in his attack in the subsequent rounds.
Swelling around Tsurkan’s left eye is
ultimately what led to the stoppage,
although the insane amount of punishment he
absorbed was every bit as qualifying.
Martirosyan’s
stock has never been higher. There have been
rumblings of 2009 becoming his breakout
year, and the Glendale (CA)-based junior
middleweight is well on his way. The win was
already the third of the year for the
23-year old, with a possible Boxing After
Dark showcase on tape later this year or in
early 2010.
RESULTS - Abraham WINS via TKO
HyeFighter
Arthur Abraham
TKO's Turkish Fighter Oral
HyeFighter
Arthur Abraham (30-0, 24 KOs) retained his IBF
middleweight title with a thrilling tenth-round
technical knockout over German-based Turk Mahir
Oral (25-2-2, 7 KOs).
The opening round was pretty calm as both
fighters were focused and cautious trying not to
take any punches and using their jabs to feel
the space between each other. Abraham connected
with a hard left to take the first stanza
closely. Surprisingly, the WBA #7, IBF #11 and
WBO #13 ranked Oral started to take the fight
over in the second round. Oral was successful in
taking the champion out of his defensive shell,
scoring several times with the huge left and
right hooks, when ‘King’ Arthur was opening up.
Round two was all Oral’s and he also took the
first two minutes of the third before being
involved in a two-way exchange at the end of the
stanza, which saw Abraham being a bit luckier
with his huge blows. The fight seemed to be
heading in a rough direction for the reigning
champion, when Oral started the fourth round as
confident as the previous two. But during the
third minute of the fourth Abraham suddenly
exploded with a huge multipunch combination,
which forced Oral to lose his composure, shook
him up and sent him into a hard knock-down after
a thunderous right by the champion. Oral stood
up on shaky legs and was lucky to survive till
the ending bell of the round.
While the fight seemed about over, Oral dug deep
and found some inner reserves in him to recover
during a hard fifth round and even to land some
bombs at the end of it. Round six saw his
confidence growing up again but when the Turkish
fighter was seemingly gaining his earlier
composure, Abraham connected with a huge
downright right hand that sent Oral down for the
second time in the bout. ‘Lion” Oral was able to
last till the end of the round again. Round
seven was a time off for ‘King’ Arthur as he
spent the whole stanza trying to find a weak
spot in Oral’s unsteady defense but landed zero
power punches. He began to operate with his
usual frequency in the eighth; his punches
easily penetrating his opponent’s block thanks
to their enormous power. Round nine was once
again huge for the champion who was all over the
challenger. Finally, Oral took a knee at the
very beginning of the tenth after another of
Abraham’s furious assaults. The challenger
bravely stood up only to go down two more times
after body shots by Arthur Abraham. The fight
was waved off at 1:23 of the tenth round, when
Oral’s corner threw in the towel after the third
knockdown. Abraham’s tenth successful title
defense in a thrilling two-way action.
