THE manager of former world flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan has publicly requested Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) to promote a title eliminator against Filipino Z Gorres in December.

Elias Nasser announced in a radio program in Sydney that they are hoping GBP will stage the bout between Darchinyan and Gorres beneath the December 8 megabout of pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. against British superstar Ricky Hatton at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Recently, the International Boxing Federation (IBF) has ordered the camps of Darchinyan and Gorres, both explosive southpaws, to negotiate a title eliminator fight by November 8.

The winner of the Gorres-Darchinyan fight will be declared the mandatory title challenger to reigning IBF super-flyweight champion Dimitri Kirilov.

Last week, Gorres’s manager Tony Aldeguer admitted that talks are ongoing for the title eliminator, although no final deal has been reached.

“At this stage, we are simply under negotiation with IBF and to this day nothing has been confirmed yet on the venue, the date and the fight money,” said Aldeguer in an e-mail to BusinessMirror.

Darchinyan, meanwhile, has been releasing statements to the Australian press as if the bout is pushing through.

“Gorres will be one of the toughest fights of my career. He is a very good fighter,” said Darchinyan “He lost a world title fight to Fernando Montiel and should have gotten the decision.”

Darchinyan was referring to Gorres’s controversial loss to World Boxing Organization (WBO) super-flyweight champion Fernando Montiel held in February in Cebu City.

Gorres, 25, bounced back from that defeat with a clinical eighth-round technical knockout win over former world champion Eric Ortiz of Mexico last August 11 at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, California.

The Australia-based Armenian Darchinyan on the other hand is coming off a 12th round TKO victory over Filipino Federico Catubay last week in Australia. It was the 31-year-old Darchinyan’s first outing since losing his IBF flyweight crown via 5th round TKO to another Filipino Nonito Donaire, Jr. last July in Connecticut.

Gorres has a record of 27-2-1 with 15 knockouts while Darchinyan’s tally is 29-1 with 23 KO’s.

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