Vic "Raging Bull" Darchinyan loves to throw brain numbing punches and Mexico's Jorge "El Travieso" Arce, doesn't like to receive them; but unfortunately—as the bloody picture above clearly points out—Cristian Mijares proved that Jorge isn't always successful at trying to avoid them.
"My career was taking off, then it went down hill when I lost to Mijares," said Arce, recalling the one-sided loss he suffered to the fellow Mexican in April 2007.
Vic Darchinyan 31-1-1, 25 KOs is a tough as nails Armenian boxer, and he will defend his IBF, WBA, and WBC junior bantamweight titles against Jorge Arce 51-4-1, 39 KOs this coming Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim.Ca.
Arce, the challenger, is a bantamweight gladiator from Mexico, and he is also a former holder of two title belts. Jorge desperately needs a win here against Darchinyan to regain his country's faith in their proud boxing history.
For the majority of fight fans like myself, just the mention of Mexican boxers conjures up visions of some of the toughest, and greatest fighters in boxing history; who would wage war on the inside and win the hardest of hard-fought battles.
Antonio Margarito, Marco Antonio Barrera, and Oscar De La Hoya have all suffered savage defeats in recent times, however, so the fate and the vision of that once dominating breed of fighter may now rest on the shoulders of Jorge Arce.
Vic Darchinyan has been his usual smack talking self; spieling off rants that can only be equaled or compared to Mixed Martial Arts fighter BJ Penn during his prefight tirade regarding Georges St. Pierre.
The difference between Penn and Darchinyan is that there's a very good chance that the Armenian can back up what he says.
"All my opponents are Mexicans and they are tough and extremely strong," said Darchinyan, who has beaten Mexican boxers Mijares, Luis Maldonado and Victor Burgos.
"It doesn't matter to me if they are Mexican or Filipino, if they get in the ring with me they will be knocked out and punished." stated Darchinyan.
The amount of pressure on Jorge Arce for this fight will be mountainous. He not only wants it for himself, but is also fighting in the name of his great country and fighters that have came before him.
I'm always a supporter of the underdog and this fight will be no different, I'm expecting a long tough fight with both punchers trading bombs from the opening bell; my personal prediction is that Jorge Arce will emerge the patriotic victor.
They told me how Connolly was shot in his chair,
His wounds from the fighting all bloody and bare.
His fine body twisted, all battered and lame,
They soon made me part of the patriot game.
It's nearly two years since I wandered away,
With the local battalion of the bold IRA,
I've read of our heroes, and I wanted the same,
To play out my part in the patriot game.
-Irish Folk Song
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