Watch here as Jorge Arce battles Vic Darchinyan for the undisputed super flyweight championship of the world.
For all that Jorge Arce has achieved in his boxing career – the 51 triumphs, the 39 KOs, the 17 victories in world title fights – he will be little more than a annotate to history if he does not defeat Vic Darchinyan on Saturday in their super flyweight title unification bout on Showtime at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
Arce, 29, has been one of the most amusing fighters of his generation. He is dear in Mexico, where he twice starred in television reality shows and can’t go anyplace without being jammed.
He’s a man who has yearn treated the media with colourful revelations and delighted fans with his extraordinary ring entrees. This is a guy who at one time came to the ring for a fight on the back of a dancing horse.
But there was no lightsome banter from Arce on Tuesday as he spoke about Vic Darchinyan. There were no adroit rebutters to the many vilifications Darchinyan has cast.