DARCHINYAN AND HUSSEIN IMPRESS IN SPARRING
Paul Upham Contributing Editor

SecondsOut
Aug 5 2006

Vic "Raging Bull" Darchinyan

By Paul Upham: IBF/IBO flyweight world champion Vic "Raging Bull"
Darchinyan and training partner Hussein Hussein engaged in an
impressive eight round sparring session on Tuesday morning at the
Team Fenech Gymnasium in Sydney.

"It’s always great sparring Hussy," said Darchinyan 26-0 (21). "We
know each other so well and can work on our technique and stamina
without hurting each other."

The two 30 year-old flyweights have being training alongside each other
since after the 2000 Olympic Games, where Darchinyan represented his
native Armenia.

"Sparring Vic is much different to the other sparring I get," said
Hussein 29-3 (22). "He makes me work so much harder."

Darchinyan faces 26 year-old Glenn Donaire 16-2-1 (9), a Filipino
based in Los Angeles, on October 7 in Las Vegas, USA at the Mandalay
Bay Events Center. It will be the main support bout to Diego Corrales
vs. Joel Casamayor III at lightweight on Showtime.

Hussein, who has previously challenged for the WBC flyweight world
title and WBC interim flyweight world title unsuccessfully, will
return to the ring on September 22 in Bankstown. He is then scheduled
to fight in Dubai in the first week of November.

"You have two of the best flyweights in the world working together
and it helps both of their careers," said co-trainer Billy Hussein.

"Sitting here watching them spar is like a front row seat at a world
title fight."