Darchinyan targets top spot

Undisputed super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan is to move up a division in his bid to become the world's best pound-for-pound fighter.

'Raging Bull' moving up to bantamweight

Undisputed super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan is set to step up a division in his bid to become the world's best pound-for-pound fighter. The Australian-based Armenian boxer defeated Mexico's Jorge Arce with an 11th-round technical knockout at the weekend to retain his IBF, WBA and WBC super flyweight titles. That victory took his record to 32 wins - with 26 by way of knockout - one draw and one loss and he now believes he could fight in as many as five divisions. "I want to be champion in three weight divisions, four, five, I don't want to go to bantamweight and stop," Darchinyan said on his return to Sydney. "I've got to be in the top 10 pound-for-pound boxers in the world, but I don't want to be just top 10, I want to be closer to No. 1." A small cut near his right eye means the 33-year-old cannot fight for at least 60 days, but his manager Elias Nassar is understood to be going after a bantamweight world title fight next against either Japan's WBC champion Hozumi Hasagawa or Ghana's IBF title holder Joseph Agbeko.