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Boxing: Raging Bull dazzles home crowd as Armenia beats `The World'
Boxing | 04.09.11 | 01:22
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By Suren Musayelyan
ArmeniaNow Deputy Editor
Current IBO bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan (37-3, 27 KOs) fought
vigorously in front of a home crowd in Yerevan on Saturday night to
retain his title by judges' unanimous decision against challenger
Evans Mbamba (18-2, 9 KOs) from South Africa.
The first professional boxing bout ever to be held in Armenia was part
of the `Armenia Against the World' international boxing competition
that went 4-0 in favor of the host nation.
In the presence of thousands of spectators at the Karen Demirchyan
Sport and Concert Complex, including Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan, National Olympic Committee President Gagik Tsarukyan and
other senior guests Darchinyan, 35, dubbed `The Raging Bull',
dominated throughout the 12-round bout against his less experienced
challenger Mbamba, 29.
The Vanadzor-born southpaw revealed his great ambition early on by
knocking his opponent down seconds into the fight. He kept punching
Mbamba hard all the way to the final ring of the bell, making it a
119-107, 120-107, 120-107 decision by the three judges.
Speaking to the audience after the fight, Darchinyan dedicated his
latest victory to the 20th anniversary of Armenia's independence,
which is to be marked on September 21, and presented his belt to
President Sargsyan.
`I was going for a big punch..., but I was a little in a rush,' the
champion said in an interview, making it clear that it was yet early
for him to call it a career in professional boxing.
Earlier, Darchinyan's fellow Team Armenia members Azat Hovhannisyan
(w/c 55.5 kg), Hovhannes Zhamkochyan (w/c 60 kg) and Gabriel Tolmajyan
(w/c 59 kg) beat Sergei Tassimov (Estonia), Mikhail Gogolashvili
(Georgia) and Evgeny Fedorov (Latvia), respectively, in six-round
bouts. Hovhannisyan and Zhamkochyan ended their fights in knockouts,
while Tolmajyan won on points.
From: Baghdasarian
Boxing | 04.09.11 | 01:22
Photolure
By Suren Musayelyan
ArmeniaNow Deputy Editor
Current IBO bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan (37-3, 27 KOs) fought
vigorously in front of a home crowd in Yerevan on Saturday night to
retain his title by judges' unanimous decision against challenger
Evans Mbamba (18-2, 9 KOs) from South Africa.
The first professional boxing bout ever to be held in Armenia was part
of the `Armenia Against the World' international boxing competition
that went 4-0 in favor of the host nation.
In the presence of thousands of spectators at the Karen Demirchyan
Sport and Concert Complex, including Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan, National Olympic Committee President Gagik Tsarukyan and
other senior guests Darchinyan, 35, dubbed `The Raging Bull',
dominated throughout the 12-round bout against his less experienced
challenger Mbamba, 29.
The Vanadzor-born southpaw revealed his great ambition early on by
knocking his opponent down seconds into the fight. He kept punching
Mbamba hard all the way to the final ring of the bell, making it a
119-107, 120-107, 120-107 decision by the three judges.
Speaking to the audience after the fight, Darchinyan dedicated his
latest victory to the 20th anniversary of Armenia's independence,
which is to be marked on September 21, and presented his belt to
President Sargsyan.
`I was going for a big punch..., but I was a little in a rush,' the
champion said in an interview, making it clear that it was yet early
for him to call it a career in professional boxing.
Earlier, Darchinyan's fellow Team Armenia members Azat Hovhannisyan
(w/c 55.5 kg), Hovhannes Zhamkochyan (w/c 60 kg) and Gabriel Tolmajyan
(w/c 59 kg) beat Sergei Tassimov (Estonia), Mikhail Gogolashvili
(Georgia) and Evgeny Fedorov (Latvia), respectively, in six-round
bouts. Hovhannisyan and Zhamkochyan ended their fights in knockouts,
while Tolmajyan won on points.
From: Baghdasarian