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  • Boxing: Darchinyan: Little Guy, Large Mouth

    DARCHINYAN: LITTLE GUY, LARGE MOUTH
    By Ron Borges

    The Sweet Science
    http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-arti cle/6312/darchinyan-little-guy-large-mouth/
    Oct 30 2008

    Vic Darchinyan has something to say. This is not a new occurrence.

    Saturday night the IBF super flyweight champion intends to knock out
    smooth boxing WBC and WBA titleholder Cristian Mijares. This is not
    only something he says he will do but it's something he now insists
    would have already happened if he could speak Spanish himself.

    "The last press conference I was speaking in English and everyone
    understood what I was saying," Darchinyan growled recently. "Mijares
    was speaking in Spanish and not in English (which kind of figures
    since he's from Mexico) but after I found out he was not translating
    everything. He said something in Mexican (or maybe Spanish?) that
    I'm talking because I'm afraid of him.

    "If I know he's talking like that, I would knock him out in that
    moment. If I'm scared I'm going to show on November 1st what I'm going
    to do to you. I'm going to break you in half! No one will remember
    him after I finish him."

    In the end this may not prove to be factual but it is the way
    Darchinyan sees the world. Every day is a fight for him and every
    fighter someone who needs to be destroyed. Maybe when you grew up
    in a difficult place like Armenia in the years of Russian oppression
    and you weigh only 114 pounds to boot that's how you look at things
    to survive. You look for a fight and you let the world know it.

    Or, then again, maybe Victor Darchinyan is just a bad guy?

    "I'm a bad guy?" he thunders at the thought of it. "Why I'm a bad
    guy? All Armenians know it's going to be me (winning) in Los Angeles. I
    become the undisputed world champion. I'm going to deliver that night."

    Mijares (35-3-2, 13 KO) is on most pound-for-pound lists because
    of his nearly perfect technical skills and his ability to use them
    to daunt and dominate opponents. That's what he did to a similarly
    trash talking Jorge Arce a year and a half ago and it is what he has
    promised to do to Darchinyan Saturday night at the Home Depot Center
    outside of Los Angeles.

    Darchinyan hears this kind of talk and loses his mind, assuming
    he has one to lose. He talks like a madman and pretty much fights
    the same way. This has made him not only a two-time world champion
    but also a fighter who is both hugely popular and wholly reviled,
    depending on what crowd you're talking to.

    "People are talking about the Mexican crowd (in LA)," Darchinyan yaps
    pugnaciously. "After two rounds you're not going to hear any Mexican
    crowd. You're only going to hear Armenian crowd."

    In Los Angeles?

    "A few rounds after that you're going to see Mexican crowd supporting
    me," he continued. "Of course they'll like my style. They don't like
    people who are just touching and running.

    "He is only talk. I'm going to prove that he's nothing. I wish his
    corner the best in the fight because he's going to be badly damaged."

    Anyone can talk like this before a fight but when your record is 30-1-1
    with 24 knockouts, such threats carry a bit more weight. That's true
    even if you carry only 114 pounds. Say what you will about Victor
    Darchinyan, he comes not only with a heavy tongue but also with heavy
    hands and bad intentions.

    He will bring all of these into the ring with him Saturday night. Now
    whether they will often land on Mijares is another matter altogether
    but it's not one that Darchinyan feels compelled to discuss.

    He dismisses Mijares' boxing skills as equivalent to running away
    and he seems blind to the possibility that what befell Arce could
    ever happen to him.

    Arce, too, came into the Mijares fight believing he could rely on his
    own heavy hands. He felt once he landed a few times the issue would
    be decided. Well, A) he's still waiting to land a few times and B)
    the issue was decided - in a lopsided manner for Mijares.

    Jorge Arce talked big but when the fight came he carried a little
    stick and it seldom landed. By the end, he was utterly frustrated by
    Mijares' quickness and style to the point where he became a broken
    and beaten man. Could the WBC-WBA champion not be capable of doing the
    same thing to Darchinyan, who seems cut from the same cloth as Arce?

    Wash your mouth out with Armenian soap!

    "I'm going to make him look like a very silly fighter," Darchinyan
    said when Arce's sad fate was brought up. "I'm going to knock him
    out. You're going to see how he is after this fight. You say my style
    is very, very awkward. I know what I'm doing!

    "I just hope he'll stay in the ring and not throw in the towel and
    stop fighting. You're going to see very big punishment (if Mijares
    does stand and fight). He's going to be punished. He won't fight for
    a couple of years."

    With the volume at which Victor Darchinyan talks, if Cristian Mijares
    doesn't fight for a couple of years after Saturday night it might be
    from an ear infection.

    "You'll see!" Darchinyan snaps again. "I'm not just strong fighter. I'm
    a smart fighter. He's overrated. I'm going to prove it. I'm going to
    fight him like there's not going to be any more fights."

    More than likely Cristian Mijares is going to fight him in the hope
    that there won't be any more press conferences.
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