Fight Video: Darchinyan KO'd Mijares on the 9RD

Watch the thrilling 9RD KO here: You should have at least a Windows Media Player 9 or later versions.

Vic Darchinyan answered what he stated he would. Cristian Mijares blanked out what he was supposed to do.

Darchinyan knocked Mijares down with a left uppercut in the 1st round and ultimately finished him off in with a jarring straight left in the 9th on Saturday night in their super flyweight title unification fight.

IBF title-holder Darchinyan controlled the match of 115-pounders from beginning to end to take away Mijares” WBC and WBA crowns.

“I foretold to show my skills and knock the hell out of him and I kept my promise,” Darchinyan said. “I was always positive I was the best fighter. I had baffled guys that had beaten him.”

Mijares, known for his boxing skills and not power, said before that intelligence would beat power. But he did not fight a smart fight, instead trying to mix it up with his hard-hitting foe.

“My heart came like a Mexican and I did not fight my fight,” Mijares said through a translator.

A native of Republic of Armenia who lives in Sydney, Darchinyan had won all but one round on each judges’ card before he barred the Mexican fighter as the 9th round finished.

As he had throughout the fight, the left-handed Darchinyan first caught Mijares with a right, then, as Mijares backed away, Darchinyan lunged and landed the left. Mijares fell backward onto the canvass and stayed on there.

Asked about having an lenient fight, Darchinyan said, “He’s not easygoing. He’s a fine fighter. But I can box, too.”

Darchinyan’s maverick style, which consists mostly of clinging his straight right arm towards an opponent’s face then accompanying with hard lefts, appeared to completely frustrate Mijares.

“I never fought his style,” Mijares said.