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DARCHINYAN TO FIGHT MBAMBA IN ARMENIA
FOXSports.com
http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/Vic-Darchinyan-to-fight-Evans-Mbamba-in-Armenia-083011
Aug 30 2011
Ring Magazine top five bantamweight Vic Darchinyan (36-3-1, 27 KOs)
looks to capture a minor belt in a 12-round fight at 118 pounds on
Saturday against untested South African Evans Mbamba (18-1, 9 KOs)
in Yerevan, the capital of Darchinyan's native Armenia.
As this is mainly a fight to keep Darchinyan active rather than a
serious title challenge, it will not be carried on US television.
Mbamba has fought only once outside his native South Africa, where he
lost a 12-round unanimous decision to WBC junior bantamweight titlist
Tomas Rojas (36-13-1, 24 KOs) in which Mbamba found himself on the
canvas twice, once each in the third and 11th rounds of the contest.
Rojas, for his part, was knocked out in two rounds by Darchinyan for
that same belt back in 2009. Mbamba has not fought since Oct. 10 of
last year, when he beat local journeyman Michael Ramabaletsa (6-3,
3 KOs) in a seventh-round TKO.
Darchinyan, for his part, came up on the short end of the Showtime
bantamweight tournament against Abner Mares by split decision last
December. This will be his second fight since losing that contest,
and it is a step down in competition from Yonnhy Perez, who fell to
Darchinyan by technical decision after Perez sustained a cut from an
accidental clash of heads in the fifth round of a fight the Armenian
was winning handily. Darchinyan continues to bide his time and defend
his minor IBO title while he waits for a shot against one of the
major titlists in the bantamweight division.
There are no fights of significance on the undercard; the main event
is, as of this writing, the only fight scheduled for more than four
rounds at the Yerevan event.
FOXSports.com
http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/Vic-Darchinyan-to-fight-Evans-Mbamba-in-Armenia-083011
Aug 30 2011
Ring Magazine top five bantamweight Vic Darchinyan (36-3-1, 27 KOs)
looks to capture a minor belt in a 12-round fight at 118 pounds on
Saturday against untested South African Evans Mbamba (18-1, 9 KOs)
in Yerevan, the capital of Darchinyan's native Armenia.
As this is mainly a fight to keep Darchinyan active rather than a
serious title challenge, it will not be carried on US television.
Mbamba has fought only once outside his native South Africa, where he
lost a 12-round unanimous decision to WBC junior bantamweight titlist
Tomas Rojas (36-13-1, 24 KOs) in which Mbamba found himself on the
canvas twice, once each in the third and 11th rounds of the contest.
Rojas, for his part, was knocked out in two rounds by Darchinyan for
that same belt back in 2009. Mbamba has not fought since Oct. 10 of
last year, when he beat local journeyman Michael Ramabaletsa (6-3,
3 KOs) in a seventh-round TKO.
Darchinyan, for his part, came up on the short end of the Showtime
bantamweight tournament against Abner Mares by split decision last
December. This will be his second fight since losing that contest,
and it is a step down in competition from Yonnhy Perez, who fell to
Darchinyan by technical decision after Perez sustained a cut from an
accidental clash of heads in the fifth round of a fight the Armenian
was winning handily. Darchinyan continues to bide his time and defend
his minor IBO title while he waits for a shot against one of the
major titlists in the bantamweight division.
There are no fights of significance on the undercard; the main event
is, as of this writing, the only fight scheduled for more than four
rounds at the Yerevan event.