Boxing: Darchinyan Targets Top Spot

DARCHINYAN TARGETS TOP SPOT

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Feb 10 2009

Undisputed super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan is set to step up a
division in his bid to become the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter.

The Australian-based Armenian boxer defeated Mexico’s Jorge Arce with
an 11th-round technical knockout at the weekend to retain his IBF,
WBA and WBC super flyweight titles.

That victory took his record to 32 wins – with 26 by way of knockout –
one draw and one loss and he now believes he could fight in as many
as five divisions.

"I want to be champion in three weight divisions, four, five, I don’t
want to go to bantamweight and stop," Darchinyan said on his return
to Sydney.

"I’ve got to be in the top 10 pound-for-pound boxers in the world,
but I don’t want to be just top 10, I want to be closer to No. 1."

A small cut near his right eye means the 33-year-old cannot fight
for at least 60 days, but his manager Elias Nassar is understood to
be going after a bantamweight world title fight next against either
Japan’s WBC champion Hozumi Hasagawa or Ghana’s IBF title holder
Joseph Agbeko.