Darchinyan sets sights on higher division

SYDNEY – Undisputed super flyweight world champion Vic Darchinyan plans to move up a division to chase a boxing world title at a third different weight.

The Australian-based Armenian boxer retained his IBF, WBA and WBC super flyweight titles with an 11th-round technical knockout of Mexico’s Jorge Arce in California on the weekend and returned to Sydney on Tuesday morning.

Darchinyan (32-1-1, 26 knockouts), who won IBF and IBO world titles as a flyweight, said he believed he could win world titles in as many as five divisions.

“I want to be (champion in) three weight divisions, four, five, I don’t want to go to bantamweight and stop,” Darchinyan told reporters on arrival.

His manager Elias Nassar told the Australian Associated Press that he wanted to arrange bantamweight world title fights for Darchinyan against either Japan’s WBC champion Hozumi Hasagawa or Ghana’s IBF title holder Joseph Agbeko.              (AP)