By Chris Williams: Vic Darchinyan (39-5-1, 28 KO’s) has taken an idea from Brandon Rios by deciding that he not only wants to beat Nonito Donaire (31-2, 20 KO’s) tonight, he wants to send Donaire into retirement. That’s been Rios’ battle cry for his fight this month against Manny Pacquiao in Macao, China. Rios wants to beat Pacquiao so badly that he’ll give up the sport and retire to politics.
Donaire and Darchinyan will be facing each other on HBO at the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. HBO blessed the fight despite the fact that Darchinyan has already been knocked out by Donaire six years ago and he’s also lost two out of his last four fights. You have to wonder why HBO said yes to this fight because it doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense because the fight has mismatch written all over regardless of what Darchinyan says.