Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Oct 13 2007

Big talker fuels Darchinyan for the road to redemption

Adrian Proszenko
October 14, 2007

VIC Darchinyan promises Federico Catubay will pay dearly for his
disrespect in next Saturday’s battle for the vacant IBO
super-flyweight title after the trash-talking Filipino taunted: "I
can’t wait to retire him."

Returning to the ring after losing his IBF and IBO flyweight titles
to another Filipino, Nonito Donaire, in July, Darchinyan is eyeing a
rematch.

First, however, he must dispose of Catubay at Auburn RSL on October
20 after stepping up a weight division to super-flyweight.

Catubay’s record of 20 wins, 13 losses and three draws is far
inferior to that of Darchinyan’s (28 wins, 22 KOs, one loss) but it
didn’t stop the man dubbed "Magnifico" from taunting the
Armenian-born Australian.

"Tell him not to run," Catubay said. "If he’s the tough boy he thinks
he is, Darchinyan should walk the talk.

"He’s so full of himself. I can’t wait to retire him."

Darchinyan said he was aware of Catubay’s broadside and would show
the boxing world the loss to Donaire – the only one of his career –
was merely an aberration. To make sure, he has been training six days
a week and employed seven different sparring partners, including
light-welterweight compatriot Lovemore Ndou.

"He is talking big that he’s going to knock me out," Darchinyan said.

"It’s getting me more and more motivated for this fight. I’m going to
show Vic Darchinyan is back."

Darchinyan’s obsession with knocking out his opponents finally
backfired in his bout with Donaire, the 31-year-old leaving himself
exposed to a massive left hook which ended the fight in the fifth
round. Although he is confident he has the power to finish off
Catubay early, the Aussie southpaw won’t make the same mistake twice.

"It’s the first loss in my career and it will help me more," he said.

"I can knock out anyone, if I’m patient the knockout time will come.

"I learned a lot from my mistake, I didn’t want to wait for the best
time, just knock him out with one punch.

"I can’t change myself. I like knockouts, but I’m going to be
patient. Twelve rounds is a long time, it’s 36 minutes of fighting.
It’s going to happen, it doesn’t matter which round."

Gary Shaw, the promoter for both Darchinyan and Donaire, will fly in
from the US to watch the fight with a view to possibly granting
Darchinyan a chance of redemption against Donaire.

"The sole reason he’s coming out is to see where Vic’s at," said
Darchinyan’s manager Elias Nasser.

"Things have changed. Vic is treating every opponent from now on as
Superman. He’s looking absolutely phenomenal.

"The days of being overconfident and cocky have been thrown out the
window."

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress