Armenian boxer Vakhtang Darchinyan to get into the ring in December

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian boxer, WBC and WBA's 1st ranked lightweight champion Vakhtang Darchinyan will very probably get into the ring in December, to make a mandatory defense of his WBC title against Mexican Tomas Rojas, his manager Elias Nasser said.



In an interview to Sydney Morning Herald, Nasser said the bout was in discussions, although not yet finalized for the first week in December.



This would allow Darchinyan sufficient time to heal the wounds received when he lost to Joseph Agbeko in a challenge for the IBF bantamweight title in July, manager said. The 33-year-old Armenian boxer has been forced to relinquish the IBF version of the super flyweight title as they required a mandatory defense.



Elias Nasser confirmed, "October would have been too soon. It would have been impossible. I would have been risking his health. Both cuts were to the bone and right in the middle of the eye brow on either side. He copped quite a few head butts in that bout."



Let's note that the 29-year-old Rojas is on a winning run of five fights after he was stopped in six rounds by Jorge Arce at Las Vegas in September 2007. He comes off a ninth round stoppage of Everado Morales in Mexico last month for the WBC interim super flyweight title.