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Southern Cali Public Welcome to Darchinyan - Arce Build Up
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American premium boxing has produced two interesting broadcasts during 2009 via HBO. First Andre Berto and Luis Collazo poured their souls into a fight of the year candidate on HBO's "Boxing After Dark", then Shane Mosley shut down and knocked out Antonio Margarito on the network's "Championship Boxing" series. Next Saturday, Anaheim, California's Honda Center will Showtime's first major boxing telecast featuring mouthy super flyweights Jorge Arce and Vic Darchinyan.
Gary Shaw Productions and Top Rank Promotions, are inviting fight fans to attend all of the week's pre-fight activities:
- Wednesday, February 4th Arce and Darchinyan will hold open workouts at the TKO Boxing Gym in Santa Ana (2:00 P.M.)
- Thursday, February 5th the final press conference takes place at The Village in Orange (12:00 P.M.)
- Friday, February 6th weigh-ins will be held at the Honda Center (11:00 A.M.)
Nice to see boxing promoters actually promoting for a change, instead of banking on television monies to subsidize the regular scene of half-filled arenas. Yet with pockets being pinched by a tight economy, if a fight fan still has a job, will they be playing hookie to watch their favorite mini-sized gladiator's publicity tour? Doubtful.
Top Rank and Gary Shaw should have scheduled these events later in the day to accommodate for working class stiffs and, gasp...young people who might be in school. God forbid boxing attempts to lure in an age demographic below the age of 55.
Tickets for Arce and Darchinyan are still available at $250, $125, $90, $60, $45 and $35 by visiting www.ticketmaster.com.
Keep in mind, a much more popular bout between welterweights Mosley and Margarito at the Staples Center last weekend had $25 nose bleeds available and produced the largest crowd in the arena's history for any event. The lowest seat being $35 for Arce-Darchinyan, neither which has strong local following, seems a bit high. Regardless, Arce and Darchinyan are the two of the most offensive minded fighters in the flyweight landscape and all of boxing, their bout is the sort of affair likely to create long lasting fistic memories.
