WBA and WBC Super Flyweight Champion Cristian Mijares and IBF Junior Bantamweight Champion Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan hosted a press conference today to announce their highly anticipated 115-pound title unification fight on Saturday, Nov. 1 live on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING from The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.
The world championship fight is only the third time that multiple 115-pound titles will be up for grabs in the same ring. In 1997, Johnny Tapia outpointed Albuquerque, N.M., rival Danny Romero to unify titles. On May 17, 2008, Mijares won a decision against Alexander Munoz also to unify two belts.
Mijares (35-3-2, 13 KOs), of Gomez Palacio, Mexico, is coming off a third-round destruction of Chatchai Sasakul on Aug. 30, while Darchinyan (30-1-1, 24 KOs), of Sydney, Australia, by way of Armenia, won his title after knocking out Dimitri Kirilov in the fifth round Aug. 2 on SHOWTIME.
“I’m one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world,” Mijares said. “On Nov. 1, Darchinyan is going to find that out the hard way when I make history unifying this division.”
Said Darchinyan: “Mijares has what I want – the remaining major belts in the 115-pound division. Let’s see how great a matador he really is when he steps inside the ring and goes face-to-face with the Raging Bull. He won’t be yelling ‘Toro!’ He’ll be screaming ‘I surrender!’ ”
Tickets are on sale and are priced starting at $25 to $250 for ringside. Tickets may be purchased at The Home Depot Center Box Office, open 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster retail ticket locations, as well as www.Ticketmaster.com and Ticketmaster-Charge-by-Phone, by calling 213-480-3232.
All Photos by Raymond Rodriguez
This is going to be a great battle, I expect fireworks from this two, Mijares has become a great boxer and a very dominant one.
Let’s see if we can get another 1 punch knockout on this one (if you know what I mean) lol
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