Vic Darchinyan and Joseph Agbeko discuss up coming fight
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Two of the
hardest-hitting boxers in the world participated in a media conference call
Tuesday to discuss their upcoming world title fight on Saturday, July 11, live
on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast) from the BankAtlantic Center
in Sunrise, Fla. This fight is in the Liverpuncher Fantasy Boxing league and
you can get your predictions in here.
IBF
Bantamweight champion Joseph “King Kong” Agbeko and two division world champion
Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan both possess eye-popping knockout percentages.
Agbeko (26-1, 22 KOs) of Accra, Ghana, now fighting out of Bronx, N.Y., has
knocked out more than 81 percent of his opponents while Darchinyan (32-1, 26
KOs), of Sydney, Australia, by way of Armenia, is right behind him at 76
percent.
Darchinyan,
an Aussie bomber who is a four-time world champion at flyweight and super flyweight,
will leave his IBF, WBC and WBA titles at 115 pounds behind to move up to the
118-pound limit to face the dangerous Agbeko. If victorious, Darchinyan will become a three-division world champion.
The
following are highlights from what they had to say about their upcoming fight:
JOSEPH AGBEKO
“In boxing
you have to fight the best to be the best and I just want Vic to know that this
is the fight of my life. I know Vic Darchinyan picked to fight me because he
thinks he can have his way with me but I just want him to know that this is the
biggest mistake he has ever made in his career because he’s going to get the
worst beating of his career.
“Why didn’t
he talk like this when Nonito Donaire beat him? I wanted him to talk more and I
want him to realize that I’m going to beat him more than Donaire beat him.
“I know I’m
better than Vic Darchinyan. I know he can punch. I’m really, really ready for
his punches. I know he’s never been on the receiving end of someone who punches
like me.
“Vic is
always talking about his power and about how he’s this and that but I’ve
watched a couple of his fights and I never saw that power. He’s always fought
guys that are afraid of him and he did what he wanted with them. But in this
fight I’m going to do what I want to do and beat him the way I want.
“I’m going
to let him do whatever he wants to do in this fight because I can do whatever
he does better than him.
VIC DARCHINYAN
“I think
after this fight they are going to change my opponent’s name to Joseph
‘Chimpanzee’ Agbeko. This is going to be the biggest mismatch. Where would you
like me to hurt you most? In the body or in the face?
“I can’t
spend my career just defending, defending, defending. I have to move up in
weight and go after more titles. I have the power to demolish anyone. I’m going
to keep moving up.
“I’ve seen
Agbeko’s fights and they don’t impress me. You will see, nothing compares to my
power. I will knock him out with my power. I can open my jaw and let him punch
it and he still won’t hurt me.
“I hope
he’s working hard and training extra hard for this fight. I don’t want it to be
an easy fight. I want to be your nightmare after this fight and not before
because I want you to get a good night’s sleep.
"I'm
going to demolish him (Donaire) in a rematch."
ELIAS NASSAR, Darchinyan’s manager:
“There are
not a lot of people who don’t know that every single fight that Vic has asked
for Gary Shaw has delivered on.”
GARY SHAW, Darchinyan’s promoter:
“I believe
I represent probably a fighter who will go down as one of the greatest boxers
to ever fight in the lower weights in the history of boxing. Please tell all
the poachers out there that Vic and I are bound together for life. I want
everyone who’s on this call to hear that.
“Vic only
wants to fight the best fighters. Vic and Elias don’t care about weights. They
only want the best fighters and they believe right now that “King Kong” Agbeko
is the best fighter at 118 pounds.”
When will
Darchinyan fight Donaire again?
“SHOWTIME
wants to buy the single biggest fights out there. That’s why he fought Cristian
Mijares, that’s why he fought Jorge Arce and that’s why he’s fighting “King
Kong” Agbeko. And while he’s been on TV and knocking all these fighters out on
TV Donaire has not been heard of or seen. When Bob Arum mentions all his great
young fighters he never mentions Donaire. If you haven’t seen those articles
I’ll be more than happy to send them to you. Just yesterday he was talking
about his Russian fighters and his Puerto Rican fighters. No where did he
mention Nonito Donaire. So the answer to that is he has a fight in front of him
on Saturday. We have to win that fight and then the question is if we win that
fight do we want to stay at 118, move back down to 115 or do we take on
(Rafael) Marquez or (
Israel)
Vazquez or someone of that ilk at 122. That is our plan right now. Vic fights
for money, not for revenge.”
Parviz Abdullayev of Azerbaijan (R) avoids a kick by Tomasz Mordarski of Poland during their semi-final bout in the low-kick 71kg kickboxing competition at the Combat Games in Beijing September 3, 2010. The Combat Games are being held until September 4, with around 1600 athletes from 60 countries competing in 13 sports. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA - Tags: SPORT BOXING)