By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17 KO’s) is very interested in fighting 39-year-old Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s), and has been calling him out on his Twitter page to try and get the former three division world champion Mosley to take him on. Martirosyan, 24, had this to say to Mosley on his Twitter page: “SugarShane, why don’t you fight me next” I wanna fight Shane Mosley. Shane don’t be a b*tch and fight me.” Mosley doesn’t seem all that interested in fighting the mostly unknown Martirosyan, responding back on his twitter page with “Stop talking. It’s not going to happen. Go fight somebody like you up and coming. Maybe in 3 or 4 years you can fight my son. LOL. How about I come down to Freddie [Roach] gym and give you what you want for free. I don’t know you.”

It doesn’t look like Martirosyan is going to be able to make a name off of the near 40-year-old Mosley. Instead of going after Mosley, Martirosyan might be better off fighting a rematch with Kassim Ouma, who he beat by a controversial 10 round decision in January. Many boxing fans, this writer included, felt that Martirosyan lost that fight. He looked really bad and was hit often by Ouma. Despite the poor showing, Martirosyan is currently ranked number #6 WBC, #WBA, #IBF, #3 WBO. Martirosyan will be fighting on December 4th against a still to be determined opponent at the Honda Center, in Anaheim, California.

Martirosyan needs a win over a fighter with a name like Mosley so that he can start building his own fan base. Based on how he’s looked in fights against Ouma and Joe Greene, who Martirosyan just finished beating by a 10 round decision in June, he’s got a long way before he builds a decent fan base. Martirosyan’s hit, run and hold style of fighting is painful to watch because it’s so boring. He lacks the excitement that Mosley had in his prime, and he doesn’t compare with a lot of the other more interesting fighters in the junior middleweight division like Miguel Cotto, Paul Williams and James Kirkland.