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  • Boxing: Darchinyan Vs Maldonado

    DARCHINYAN-MALDONADO ARTICLE

    SaddoBoxing.com
    June 1 2006

    http://www.fightwriter.com/?q=node/219

    Alwa ys entertaining Vic Darchinyan is in action in the chief supporting
    fight to the Diego Corrales-Jose Luis Castillo rubber match on
    Showtime when he defends his flyweight title against an unbeaten but
    little-known Mexican, Luis "Titi" Maldonado.

    Last Saturday we saw little men in a dull tactical bout when Jhonny
    Gonzalez edged out Fernando Montiel. With Darchinyan in the ring,
    though, we know that we will see uncompromising aggression and big
    hitting. The Armenian-raised Australian does not hang about: he goes
    straight after his opponents and he tries to hurt them early with
    big left hands and right hooks from out of his southpaw style.

    Darchinyan is one of those fighters who proves that the small men
    can make exciting fights and deliver knockouts. He has crunched 20
    opponents in his 25 consecutive wins. We saw him on ShoBox in March
    when he battered the game Filipino, Diosdado Gabi, in the eighth. It
    was Darchinyan's seventh successive stoppage win.

    I think that his trainer, Aussie great Jeff Fenech, would like to see
    Darchinyan move his head and slip and duck punches a bit more than
    he does instead of marching straight in. Darchinyan, though, has such
    confidence in his physical strength and punching power that he thinks
    he can walk through anyone. So far he has been able to do just that.

    His challenger is one of those mystery fighters. Even though Maldonado
    has a great record statistically with 33 wins and a draw in 34 fights,
    25 stoppages, he has had all but one of his fights in Mexico against
    mostly obscure opponents.

    What might be significant is that in the three fights where Maldonado
    faced his toughest opposition he had problems each time, winning by
    split decision over Gilberto Keb Baas and the southpaw Tomas Rojas
    and, in his last fight, being held to a draw by the solid Cristian
    Mijares. This suggests to me that he is a little out of his class
    against Darchinyan.

    Maldonado is likely to be tough and game but I really do not know
    what to expect from him. We do know what to expect from Darchinyan,
    though, and we definitely will not be bored.

    The offshore over/under of 8.5 rounds looks about right and I would
    lean a little towards the under, with Darchinyan probably blasting
    his way to victory around the eighth.
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