DARCHINYAN TITLE FIGHT PUT BACK
By Adrian Warren
Fox Sports, Australia
April 30 2008
April 30, 2008 VIC Darchinyan’s challenge to Russia’s IBF Super
flyweight world champion Dimitri Kirilov has been pushed back four
weeks to August 2, but the Australian will make an appearance of a
totally different kind next month.
Sydney-based Darchinyan, the current IBO super flyweight world champion
and former IBF and IBO flyweight world titleholder, was originally
scheduled to challenge Kirilov on July 5.
Their Las Vegas clash has been deferred four weeks to allow another
big super flyweight fight to appear on the card.
Filipino Glenn Donaire, the only professional to defeat Darchinyan,
is also scheduled to fight on the new date.
Darchinyan’s manager Elias Nassar revealed Donaire could challenge WBO
super flyweight world champion Fernando Montiel in the main support
bout on the card, which still has to be locked into a specific venue.
The deferral will give Montiel some extra time to recover from his
May 3 title defence against former Darchinyan victim Luis Maldonado.
Nassar revealed Darchinyan would be one of the boxers in the new
Prize Fighter Don King computer game which goes on sale next month.
He added that Darchinyan was the first Australian boxer to appear in
a computer game.
Darchinyan has spent the last month training in Armenia the country
of his birth and will return to Australia shortly.