Darchinyan & Wale Omotoso fighting on Wilder vs Arreola card July 16th

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Vic Darchinyan 42-8-1 is fighting 16-7-1 Mexican Enrique Quevedo on the Wilder vs Arreola card next weekend.

Quevedo has lost 3 of his past 5 fights and Darchinyan 3 of his past 6. Vic is now 40 and must be getting close to pulling the curtain down on what has been a great career.

Also on the Wilder vs Arreola undercard is Wale Omotoso 26-2, who comes up against unbeaten American 19-0 Jamal James.

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Reports are Wale Omotoso and unbeaten American Jamal James fought a closely contested 10 rounder.

In the hands of the judges right now.

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James gets it.

97-92 James
96-94 James
96-93 Omotoso

[gilgamesh]

Darchinyan just got sparked in 2 rounds. He needs to hang 'em up.

[Grant]

by someone rated 169th and 24th in Mexico. Was this fight on tv, did I turn it off too early?

[dberry]

Darchinyan just got sparked in 2 rounds. He needs to hang 'em up.

Vic StarchedChinyan.

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"It is the first time I have been knocked out in my 25 years of boxing. I can't believe that just happened" - Vic Darchinyan

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WALE OMOTOSO :

“Look at me and look at Jamal James. Look at my face and tell me who won. When they announced the decision everyone booed.

“I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe it’s because I’m from Africa. I don’t know.

“I want to fight again as soon as I can. I’ll fight whoever. I don’t care who it is. I’ve been asking for a fight for nine months. I stay in the gym. I’ll go in the gym tomorrow. Boxing is my life.

“I dropped this kid and I hurt him. I beat him up. I’ll rematch him any time, or fight anyone else. It doesn’t matter to me.”

[gilgamesh]

"It is the first time I have been knocked out in my 25 years of boxing. I can't believe that just happened" - Vic Darchinyan

Is he getting punch drunk? We've all seen him knocked out before...maybe he means it's the only time he was literally knocked unconscious.

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WALE OMOTOSO :

“Look at me and look at Jamal James. Look at my face and tell me who won. When they announced the decision everyone booed.

“I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe it’s because I’m from Africa. I don’t know.

“I want to fight again as soon as I can. I’ll fight whoever. I don’t care who it is. I’ve been asking for a fight for nine months. I stay in the gym. I’ll go in the gym tomorrow. Boxing is my life.

“I dropped this kid and I hurt him. I beat him up. I’ll rematch him any time, or fight anyone else. It doesn’t matter to me.”

For the record I thought James won the fight by the slightest of margins, but Omotoso definitely gave him hell, and he damn sure came to fight.

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"It is the first time I have been knocked out in my 25 years of boxing. I can't believe that just happened" - Vic Darchinyan

Is he getting punch drunk? We've all seen him knocked out before...maybe he means it's the only time he was literally knocked unconscious.

I did a double take on that comment too. But he must have meant knocked out cold.

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WALE OMOTOSO :

“Look at me and look at Jamal James. Look at my face and tell me who won. When they announced the decision everyone booed.

“I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe it’s because I’m from Africa. I don’t know.

“I want to fight again as soon as I can. I’ll fight whoever. I don’t care who it is. I’ve been asking for a fight for nine months. I stay in the gym. I’ll go in the gym tomorrow. Boxing is my life.

“I dropped this kid and I hurt him. I beat him up. I’ll rematch him any time, or fight anyone else. It doesn’t matter to me.”

For the record I thought James won the fight by the slightest of margins, but Omotoso definitely gave him hell, and he damn sure came to fight.

I haven't seen the fight. So I am operating in the dark here. But from what I am hearing it was hard to split them most rounds.

So for one of the 3 American judges to give it to Wale 96-93 and another gave it to James 97-92, surprised me. Particularly after Wale dropped James in the 1st making it a 10-8 round. So from there, the judge who had it 97-92, has given every other round bar 1 to James.

[DA GOOSE]

Vic needs to retire he is just a journeyman now. Look at how much he is getting for each fight.



Not worth it for the damage to his health.

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WALE OMOTOSO :

“Look at me and look at Jamal James. Look at my face and tell me who won. When they announced the decision everyone booed.

“I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe it’s because I’m from Africa. I don’t know.

“I want to fight again as soon as I can. I’ll fight whoever. I don’t care who it is. I’ve been asking for a fight for nine months. I stay in the gym. I’ll go in the gym tomorrow. Boxing is my life.

“I dropped this kid and I hurt him. I beat him up. I’ll rematch him any time, or fight anyone else. It doesn’t matter to me.”

For the record I thought James won the fight by the slightest of margins, but Omotoso definitely gave him hell, and he damn sure came to fight.

I haven't seen the fight. So I am operating in the dark here. But from what I am hearing it was hard to split them most rounds.

So for one of the 3 American judges to give it to Wale 96-93 and another gave it to James 97-92, surprised me. Particularly after Wale dropped James in the 1st making it a 10-8 round. So from there, the judge who had it 97-92, has given every other round bar 1 to James.

I just had it 95-94 for James myself. I thought 97-92 was a bit wide. It was a razor thin fight definitely.

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For the record I thought James won the fight by the slightest of margins, but Omotoso definitely gave him hell, and he damn sure came to fight.

I haven't seen the fight. So I am operating in the dark here. But from what I am hearing it was hard to split them most rounds.

So for one of the 3 American judges to give it to Wale 96-93 and another gave it to James 97-92, surprised me. Particularly after Wale dropped James in the 1st making it a 10-8 round. So from there, the judge who had it 97-92, has given every other round bar 1 to James.

I just had it 95-94 for James myself. I thought 97-92 was a bit wide. It was a razor thin fight definitely.

Sometimes you would swear the judges were watching different fights.

[gilgamesh]

I haven't seen the fight. So I am operating in the dark here. But from what I am hearing it was hard to split them most rounds.

So for one of the 3 American judges to give it to Wale 96-93 and another gave it to James 97-92, surprised me. Particularly after Wale dropped James in the 1st making it a 10-8 round. So from there, the judge who had it 97-92, has given every other round bar 1 to James.

I just had it 95-94 for James myself. I thought 97-92 was a bit wide. It was a razor thin fight definitely.

Sometimes you would swear the judges were watching different fights.

Yeah. In fairness to 'em though that wasn't the easiest fight to score. Omotoso was the aggressor throughout and was steadily bringing it, but James was often landing the cleaner, sharper punches.

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I just had it 95-94 for James myself. I thought 97-92 was a bit wide. It was a razor thin fight definitely.

Sometimes you would swear the judges were watching different fights.

Yeah. In fairness to 'em though that wasn't the easiest fight to score. Omotoso was the aggressor throughout and was steadily bringing it, but James was often landing the cleaner, sharper punches.

Cheers. Looking forward to watching the fight when it appears somewhere.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjfUFNBhEb4

[Perseus]

Watched it a little while ago and I agree with gilgamesh.
95-94 James.
Fight was exactly as he described, Omotoso constantly coming forward but James landing the sharper punches.
Omotoso was landing punches but James was landing the highlight reel punches.
Fan friendly fight, plenty of action and furious exchanges.
97-92 for James was a bit wide but imo they got the winner right.
Decision reasonably could have gone either way, split decision was a good verdict.

Punch stats for the fight: James 214 of 729, Omotoso 204 of 707.

Second time I have seen Omotoso and it was the second fun fight. I look forward to seeing more of his fights.
Wale comes from the Glen Johnson mold, constantly comes forward, throws a lot of punches and has a granite chin. The crowd will always like him because he makes good fights. Wale needs that solid chin because he is there to be hit and he gets hit hard(walks right into but not through punches) a lot of boxers will crumble under his constant pressure but any boxer that can live with an opponent who takes his best punches and keeps coming will edge him.

Was impressed with James too, this was likely the first time he had to face the kind of pressure he got from Omotoso and he was obviously game for it.

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Watched it a little while ago and I agree with gilgamesh.
95-94 James.
Fight was exactly as he described, Omotoso constantly coming forward but James landing the sharper punches.
Omotoso was landing punches but James was landing the highlight reel punches.
Fan friendly fight, plenty of action and furious exchanges.
97-92 for James was a bit wide but imo they got the winner right.
Decision reasonably could have gone either way, split decision was a good verdict.

Punch stats for the fight: James 214 of 729, Omotoso 204 of 707.

Second time I have seen Omotoso and it was the second fun fight. I look forward to seeing more of his fights.
Wale comes from the Glen Johnson mold, constantly comes forward, throws a lot of punches and has a granite chin. The crowd will always like him because he makes good fights. Wale needs that solid chin because he is there to be hit and he gets hit hard(walks right into but not through punches) a lot of boxers will crumble under his constant pressure but any boxer that can live with an opponent who takes his best punches and keeps coming will edge him.

Was impressed with James too, this was likely the first time he had to face the kind of pressure he got from Omotoso and he was obviously game for it.

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Finally found some footage from the bout and will have a good look at it when I get the chance :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42UpkAS ... vEid9U86dS

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Full fight.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4kmvj ... 2016_sport

The crowd was booing but I thought James won by about 3 rounds even though he looked the worst at the end. James was more accurate and less wild than Omotoso.

[Chuck1052]

Vic needs to retire he is just a journeyman now. Look at how much he is getting for each fight.



Not worth it for the damage to his health.

I agree that Vic Darchinyan should retire. In regards to the list of the fighters' purses, I am astounded that Sammy Vasquez received a purse of $225,000. while Chris Arreola got only $150,000. for fighting on the same fight show. This is despite the fact that Arreola was fighting Deontay Wilder in the main event of the card with Wilder's WBC world heavyweight title at stake. At the same time, Wilder received a purse of $1,400,000. for the bout.

- Chuck Johnston

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Vic needs to retire he is just a journeyman now. Look at how much he is getting for each fight.



Not worth it for the damage to his health.

I agree that Vic Darchinyan should retire. In regards to the list of the fighters' purses, I am astounded that Sammy Vasquez received a purse of $225,000. while Chris Arreola got only $150,000. for fighting on the same fight show. This is despite the fact that Arreola was fighting Deontay Wilder in the main event of the card with Wilder's WBC world heavyweight title at stake. At the same time, Wilder received a purse of $1,400,000. for the bout.

- Chuck Johnston

Maybe that's why he go the fight -- was wiling to take the low purse.