Vic Darchinyan returns and challenges Shinsuke Yamanaka’s WBC bantamweight gold – Boxing News
Vic Darchinyan, the former International Boxing Organisation bantamweight champion, will take on Shinsuke Yamanaka, the current WBC bantamweight champion, and will try to dethrone the newly crowned Yamanaka, in a 12-round skirmish on April 6, 2012.
The ring for the event will be stretched at Tokyo International Forum situated in Tokyo, Japan and the bout will co-headline the Friday night event. In addition, the pay-per-view will be headlined by the WBC super featherweight title bout between Takahiro
Ao and Terdsak Kokietgym.
The event is being solely promoted by Akihiko Honda of Teiken Promotions. Vic, 36, is a veteran pugilist who hails from Armenia and has won almost all the titles in his division. The southpaw collected a huge unanimous decision loss against surging Anselmo
Moreno and not only lost his gold but also missed the chance to wear the WBA super world bantamweight title.
Widely known as the ‘Raging Bull’, Vic has been in a total 42 bouts and emerged victorious in 37. He has collected 27 of his total wins by knockout. All these stats and victories over names such as Yonnhy Perez, Eric Barcelona, Evans Mbamba and others clearly
shows that he is not a low calibre pugilist.
Vic recently gave a short interview and shared his thoughts about the upcoming bout. The proud Armenian veteran while recalling his last skirmish with Moreno admitted that it was his mistake since he executed the wrong game plan and was clearly outclassed
by the young lad adding that he would love to take on Moreno once again.
Shinsuke Yamanaka, Vic’s opponent is seriously overshadowed by Darchinyan’s experience and resume. He has been in a total 17 bouts and emerged victorious in 15. He has collected 11 of his wins by knockout.
The only aspect that will create difficulty for the new owner of the WBC bantamweight gold will be Vic’s huge experience and the level of the opponents he has fought. Vic while commenting about his opponent said, “He’s tough, good mover, uses the ring well;
but he has never faced anyone like me. I am going to take him places that he has never been before.”
While sharing his bout strategy, Vic remarked, “It’s going to be a breakdown then a knockout. As long as I put the breakdown before my love of the knockout I will never lose a fight. If I go for the knockout first I put the risk on losing. That’s been my
mistake in the past and I need to fix it.”
Vic needs to skim the impression that he needs to retire off the critics circle by winning the bout and becoming the WBC bantamweight champion. The title defence bout will be Yamanaka’s after he snatched it from Christian Esquivel by collecting an 11th round
technical knockout win.
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