DARCHINYAN: 100% SURE I WILL KNOCK OUT GORRES
By Dong Secuya
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 29 Jan 2008
CEBU CITY -- Armenian-born Australian former world champion Vic Darchinyan reiterated for the nth time his prediction to knock Z Gorres out on their upcoming world-title eliminator fight this coming Saturday at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu city.
In an interview with PhilBoxing.com after his public workout yesterday afternoon at the ALA Gym in Banilad, the highly confident and cocky Darchinyan said "tell your readers that I promise to knock Gorres out and it's gonna happen 100% sure."
When asked what round he would knock Gorres out, Darchinyan said "I don't know what round but it's gonna be before the end of the 12th round. After the first or second round, I'll know what round I'll finish him."
Darchinyan has arrived in Cebu from Australia last Saturday evening and together with his team and his promoter Gary Shaw, is staying at the posh Waterfront Hotel in Lahug. Clearly impressed by the host country, Darchinyan said, "I like the Philippines and its people, the people in the hotel are very nice. I like the place. I intend to return here sometime after the fight, but ... I'm very sorry guys because I'm gonna whip your boy's ass."
Whether Darchinyan, who had tasted his first loss when he was knocked out spectaculary by Filipino-American Nonito Donaire, Jr. on July, 7, 2007, can actually deliver on his promise for a knockout win this Saturday is still a big question mark. "A loss changes a boxer's mentality and confidence," Darchinyan's promoter Gary Shaw earlier told PhilBoxing.com. "After a loss, a boxer's next big fight will practically determine his future. And his (Darchinyan's) fight with Gorres is such as a kind of fight."
Darchinyan (29-1-0, 23KOs), has held the IBF and IBO flyweight titles for 4 years before he was unceremoniously dethroned by the then unheralded Donaire. Widely known as being cocky to he point of being obnoxious, Darchinyan is now moving up in weight and won his first fight in the super flyweight division against Filipino journeyman Federico Catubay but in an unimpressive fashion on Oct. 20, 2007 in Sydney, Australia.
Meanwhile, Gorres (27-2-1, 15KOs) had completely dominated former world champion Eric Ortiz in his last fight on Aug. 11, 2007 in Sacramento, CA. after failing to wrest the WBO superfly crown from Fernando Montiel on Feb. 24, 2007 in Cebu City in what many believed a fight that Gorres had won.
Gorres vs Darchinayan dubbed as "Now or Never" will explode this Saturday at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City. The undercards start at 6 PM while the main event starts at 9 PM and will be televised by Solar Sports in the Philippines and Australia and will be streamed via the Internet the rest of the world.
Photos During Darchinyan's Workout at the ALA's BTC gym:
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