Boxing: Darchinyan Basks In Glory Following Arce TKO

DARCHINYAN BASKS IN GLORY FOLLOWING ARCE TKO

ABC Online
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Feb 10 2009
Australia

World super flyweight boxing champion Vic Darchinyan has returned
to Australia after defending his titles against Jorge Arce in Los
Angeles at the weekend.

Armenian-born Darchinyan retained the IBF, WBA and WBC belts after
stopping Mexico’s Arce at the end of the 11th round.

The Ring boxing magazine now rates Darchinyan as the 10th best
pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

Although he has been based in Australia since the Sydney Olympics,
Darchinyan says he is still a national hero in Armenia.

"In Armenia it was 6 in the morning when they’re showing my fight,
they told me, any building you see it’s all light like it’s daytime,"
he said.

"And it’s great you know. I think maybe 90 per cent of Armenia saw
my fight on live."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS