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  • Boxing: Darchinyan retains world boxing titles

    Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
    Feb 8 2009


    Darchinyan retains world boxing titles

    Peter Mitchell
    February 8, 2009 - 3:49PM

    Australia's Vic Darchinyan has won his super flyweight world-title
    fight in Anaheim, south of Los Angeles with a vicious technical
    knockout.

    Darchinyan battered Mexico's Jorge Arce for eleven rounds with
    ringside doctor Dr Paul Wallace ending the fight and before the start
    of the 12th with Arce bleeding from two severe cuts under both eyes.

    The win sees Darchinyan retain the division's World Boxing Council,
    World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation title
    belts.

    Darchinyan opened up a cut under Arce's left eye in the first round
    after pounding the Mexican with three trademark powerful left hand
    blows.

    Arce appeared shaky on his feet late in the seventh round after being
    rocked again by multiple Darchinyan lefts and the punishment
    continued, with Arce's right eye dripping blood at the end of the
    tenth.

    In the eleventh Darchinyan continued to pound Arce and by the end the
    round the Mexican's face was covered in blood.

    Before the final round began, Dr Wallace stepped in.

    Arce came into the ring wearing his trademark black cowboy hat and
    sucking on a lollipop.

    The fight was staged in front of a parochial pro-Arce crowd at
    Anaheim's 17,000 seat Honda Centre, the home of Anaheim's National
    Hockey League team, the Ducks.

    Boos reigned down on the Armenian-born, Australian citizen Darchinyan
    as he entered the ring but as the fight progressed the minority
    Armenian and Australian fans took over the arena.

    http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport /darchinyan-retains-world-boxing-titles-20090208-8 0t5.html

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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