The son of an Armenian Olympic wrestling coach, Darchinyan finally landed an opponent last Friday in the form of Mexican Rodrigo Guerrero.
To defend his WBA and WBC world title belts, Darchinyan intends to mix up his training regimen to try to improve his already brutal punching power.
Gone are the heavy sessions in the gym bench-pressing 120kg and doing hundreds of push-ups with his feet elevated on top of one corner of the ring.
Instead, the Sydney Olympian has been working with world champion discuss thrower Dani Samuels to improve the fast-twitch muscle fibres and explosive power in his legs.
Parramatta Eels conditioning gurus Hayden Knowles and Craig Catterick are supervising the new lower-body program.
"Vic doesn't need to work on his upper body, boxing is enough for him in terms of maintenance there," Knowles said. "But by working on the power from his legs, we believe we can increase his power quite considerably."
Darchinyan's manager Elias Nasser admitted the assignment of finding fights was tough because of Darchinyan's fearsome reputation, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
Vakhtang Darchinyan (born 7 January, 1976 in Vanadzor, Armenia) is a professional boxer who is the current WBA, WBC unified Super Flyweight World Champion. Darchinyan was also formerly the IBF and IBO champion of the flyweight division and briefly reigned as the IBO's super flyweight champion also. He is a southpaw boxer, who currently trains under Billy Hussein, brother of boxers Nedal and Hussein Hussein. Previously, he was trained by former 3-division world champion, Jeff Fenech in Sydney.
