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  • Boxing: Darchinyan Ready To Knockout Maldonado On Castillo-CorralesI

    DARCHINYAN READY TO KNOCKOUT MALDONADO ON CASTILLO-CORRALES III CARD
    Paul Upham Contributing Editor

    SecondsOut
    May 2 2006

    By Paul Upham: Reigning IBF/IBO flyweight world boxing champion Vic
    "Raging Bull" Darchinyan and Team Fenech were the special guests of
    Wests Tigers - the reigning NRL rugby league football champions - at
    their Concord Oval training facility on Tuesday morning in Sydney,
    Australia. During the visit, Darchinyan sparred some rounds with
    Tigers great Benny Elias.

    "Last year the Wests Tigers were relatively unknown, but showed skill
    and determination to win the NRL Championship," said Darchinyan.

    "Players such as Benji Marshall and Scott Prince proved how hungry
    they were to win. I see a lot of similarities with my career. I have
    won two world titles so far, but with every fight I want to show how
    hungry I am to become the undisputed boxing champion of the world."

    Considered by many to be one of the hottest new stars in world boxing,
    Vic "Raging Bull" Darchinyan - Australia's only current male boxing
    world champion - will next defend his world titles against undefeated
    28 year-old Mexican Luis Maldonado 33-0-1 (25) on a card that will
    see them as the main support bout to one of the world's 'Fights of
    the Year' in Jose Luis Castillo vs. Diego Corrales III on June 3 at
    the Thomas & Mack Centre in Las Vegas, USA.

    Darchinyan, who is promoted by prominent American Gary Shaw and
    trained by three-time world champion Jeff Fenech, first won the IBF
    flyweight world title in December 2004 against long reigning world
    champion Irene Pacheco.

    "The most knowledgeable people in American boxing can see how talented
    Vic Darchinyan is," said Fenech. "In this next fight in front of the
    world, he will once again show that he is one of the most exciting
    boxers competing today."

    30 year-old Darchinyan, the Armenia born Australian citizen, has
    an undefeated record of 25 wins, 0 losses and 20 knockouts. In his
    last fight on March 3 at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez,
    California in the USA, the hard-hitting southpaw knocked out IBF
    mandatory challenger Diosdado Gabi from the Philippines spectacularly
    with one punch in round 8.

    The impressive knockout win over Gabi was televised by American
    network SHOWTIME across the USA as the main event of their "SHOBOX:
    The New Generation" series to an audience in the millions and has
    led to his next fight on SHOWTIME "Championship Boxing" on one of
    the most highly anticipated fight cards of the year.

    "Maldonado is a good fighter," said Darchinyan. "But on June 3,
    I will knock him out."
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