Vic Darchinyan Tickets

Vic Darchinyan lost by 12-round unanimous decision to Panamanian Anselmo Moreno (32-1-1, 11 KOs) in a 12-round WBA Super World and IBO bantamweight title fight on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Scores were 112-115, 110-117 and 107-120. Darchinyan lost a point in round four for shoving Moreno to the canvas. Moreno, the slicker boxer of the two dominated the fight. Moreno retained his WBA Super World bantamweight title and Darchinyan's IBO bantamweight title becomes vacant.

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Vic "Raging Bull" Darchinyan

(37-4-1, 27 KOs)

Vic Darchinyan, Armenian, is currently fighting out of Australia, trained by Jeff Fenech. Darchinyan represented Armenia in the 2000 Olympics. Ring Magazine named Vic Darchinyan fighter of the month after his took the IBF title from Irene Pacheco by 11th round KO on December 16, 2004. Pacheco was down in the 10th and again in the 11th round forcing his corner to stop the fight. Darchinyan became the first Armenian to capture a world title.

In Las Vegas at the Thomas and Mack on June 3, 2006 Vic Darchinyans fight with Luis Maldonado became the headliner after the Corrales-Castillo fight was cancelled due to Castillo failing to make the weight. In an exciting fast paced match the hard hitting Darchinyan beat Maldonado by an 8th round TKO retaining his IBF flyweight title.

On October 7, 2006 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada Vic Darchinyan beat Glenn Donaire by a 6th round technical decision. Donaire suffered a possible broken jaw. Donaire was down in the 4th round from a big right before the 6th round stoppage. The 6th round TD should have been a TKO because Donaire retired due to a jaw injury caused by a punch not a head butt. There were no signs of a head butt on replays. Darchinyan stated Glenn Donaire flat out quit on me.

Vic Darchinyan scored a 12th round TKO over Victor Burgos on March 3, 2007 in his 6th IBF title defense. Burgos, slipping in and out of consciouness was taken out of the ring on a stretcher to Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center where he underwent the emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain.

2006 IBF/USBA Awards - Vic Darchinyan received The Jersey Joe Walcott Award for having defended his world title at least three times. Darchinyan, the pint size powerhouse southpaw relentlessly attacks his opponents with his unceasing hammer blows. It is very important to Darchinyan that he win every fight by knockout.

Vic Darchinyan KOd by Nonito Donaire

Vic Darchinyan lost his "O" on July 7, 2007 at the Harbour Yard Arena in Bridgeport, Connecticut KO'd by Nonito Donaire in the 5th round by a flush left hook face. The floored Darchinyan tried to get up on his feet but stumbled toward the ropes as referee Eddie Claudio called a halt to the bout. Nonito Donaire avenged his brother Glenn's broken jaw by Darchinyan last year.

Vic Darchinyan coming off his first loss stopped Frederico Catubay in the final round on October 20, 2007 at the Auburn RSL Club in Auburn, New South Wales, Australia. Darchinyan downed Catubay in the 7th and 11th rounds and was banging away on him in the 12th before referee Gary Dean intervened at 2:03 stopping the bout. Catubay was not a soft opponent, he wobbled Darchinyan in the 6th round. Darchinyan took home to the IBO and IBF Australasian super flyweight titles.

Vic Darchinyan fought to a controversial draw with Filipino Z Gorres on Saturday, February 2, 2008 in Cebu City in the Philippines despite knocking Gorres down four to five times during the IBF super flyweight eliminator bout. New Zealand referee Lance Revill ruled knockdowns as slips and slips as knockdowns. Angry boxing fans threw bottles into the ring during the bout causing the chairman of Games and Amusement to admonish the crowd. Gorres accused Darchinyan of fighting dirty. Gary Shaw, Darchinyan's promoter said he planned to file a protest with the IBF over the results.

Darchinyan Destroys Kirilov

Ringside: Vic Darchinyan beat Russian super flyweight Dimitri Kirilov (29-4-1, 9 KOs) by 5th round KO on Saturday, August 2, 2008 at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington on Showtime. Darchinyan stalked Kirilov from the opening bell landing left hands repeatedly. In round five Darchinyan knocked Kirilov to the canvas with a combination. Kirilov beat the count but was on the canvas seconds later from a left hand. Kirilov remained on a knee as the referee counted him out. In an impressive performance Darchinyan took home the IBF super flyweight title in addition to his win.

Darchinyan beat Cristian Mijares (36-4-2, 15 KOs) by way of 9th round knockout on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. In addition to Darchinyan's victory he captured Mijares' WBA and WBC super flyweight titles which along with his IBF super flyweight title makes Darchinyan the world's first unified super flyweight champion in history. Darchinyan knocked down Mijares in the first round with a left upper cut. Darchinyan, a southpaw dominated Mijares the entire fight repeatedly nailing him with right left combinations. Then in the final moments of round nine Darchinyan landed a straight left that sent Mijares back on the canvas out cold. Referee Lou Moret stopped the count at 7 as doctors rushed into the ring putting an end to the fight. At the time of stoppage Darchinyan was ahead by scores of 79-72, 79-72 and 79-72 after eight rounds.

Vic Darchinyan IBF junior bantamweight, WBA and WBC super flyweight champion fought and beat challenger Jorge Arce (51-5-1, 39 KOs) by 11th round TKO in front of a crowd of 5,450 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on Saturday, February 7, 2009. The ring doctor stopped the fight at the end of round eleven with Arce cut and bloodied. It was a virtual shutout with Darchinyan winning every round except one. Scores were 109-100 on all three judge's scorecards at the time of stoppage.

Darchinyan lost a bantamweight title fight to IBF bantamweight champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko (27-1-0, 22 KOs) from Ghana now fighting out of Bronx, New York by 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday, July 11, 2009 at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida. Scores for the nationally televised Showtime fight were 116-111, 114-113 and 114-113 all for Agbeko.

Darchinyan did get credit for a knockdown in round seven which the timekeeper mistakenly let go for 4 minutes. He also suffered a cut over the left eye and a bad cut over his right eye from an accidental headbutt (Agbeko is known for headbutting). Darchinyan was fighting for the first time at bantamweight hoping to become the second boxer in history to win titles at flyweight, super flyweight and bantamweight.

Vic Darchinyan defeated Tomas Rojas (31-12-1, 22 KOs) by 2nd round knockout on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at the Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage, California. Darchinyan hit Rojas with two lefts to the side of the head followed by left thrown straight through the middle knocking down Rojas for the count. In addition to his victory Darchinyan successfully defended his WBC Super Flyweight title for the 2nd time. The fight was televised live on Showtime as a doubleheader with Timothy Bradley vs Lamont Peterson.

Darchinyan beat Rodrigo Guerrero (13-2-1, 9 KOs) by 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at the Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage, California. Guerrero fought with a lot of heart taking punch after punch from power punching Darchinyan but never went down. Darchinyan retained his WBC & WBA super flyweight titles. The fight card was promoted by Gary Shaw and was televised live on Showtime's ShoBox.

Vic Darchinyan stepping up in weight beat Philippine Eric Barcelona (51-18-4, 19 KOs) by 12-round unanimous decision on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at the Parramatta Leagues Club in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. Darchinyan knocked down Barcelona twice in round five and once in round eleven and wobbled him in round twelve. Barcelona lost 2 points for low blows in rounds six and twelve. The judges scores read 120-103, 118-105 and 116-108. In addition to his victory Darchinyan won the vacant IBO bantamweight title. Darchinyan fought with a broken left hand that happened sparring during training camp.

Darchinyan lost a controversial 12-round split decision and his IBO bantamweight title to Abner Mares (21-0-1, 13 KOs) of Montebello, California in a semi-final bout on Showtime's bantamweight tournament on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at the Emerald Queen in Tacoma, Washington. Scores were 115-111, 112-113 and 111-115. Press row and many viewing the fight including myself had Darchinyan winning. Mares was down in round two and lost a point in round four for repeated low blows. Darchinyan was down in round seven but not hurt by the punch. Mares will advance now to stage two of the single elimination tournament fighting Joseph Agbeko who was the winner of Perez vs Agbeko and Darchinyan will fight in a third-place match against Yonnhy Perez.

On Saturday, April 23, 2011 in Showtime's bantamweight tournament at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California, Darchinyan beat Yonnhy Perez (20-2-1, 14 KOs) by 5th round technical decision. Darchinyan was on fire from the opening bell. In round one he rocked Perez with an overhand left followed by a combination. In round two Darchinyan knocked Perez down with a left uppercut. In round four Darchinyan rocked Perez with a straight left and a left hook to the chin. In round five there was an accidental clash of heads and Perez suffered a cut over his left eye. The fight was stopped on recommendation of the ring doctor at 1:07 of round five and went to the score cards. Scores 50-44, 50-44 and 50-44 all for Darchinyan. In addition to his victory Darchinyan also won the vacant IBO bantamweight title.

Darchinyan defeated South African Evans Mbamba (18-2-0, 9 KOs) by 12-round unanimous decision in an IBO bantamweight title fight on Saturday, September 3, 2011 at the Karen Demirchyan Sports Complex in Yerevan, Armenia. Scores were 120-107, 120-107 and 119-107. Mbamba was down in round one and after that went into survival mode for the duration of the fight. It was Darchinyan's first time fighting as a pro in Armenia and also his first IBO bantamweight title defense.