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  • Boxing: Darchinyan To Fight Mbamba In Armenia

    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.

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