Vanes Martirosyan

Mayweather could continue his career past Berto fight, says Martirosyan

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Floyd MayweatherBy Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) has done a good job of convincing people that his September 12th fight against Andre Berto (30-3, 23 KOs) will be the last fight of his career when he gets inside the ring at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. However, junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan doesn’t believe for a second that Mayweather will be walking away from the sport.

Vanes thinks Mayweather will be coming back to try and capture his 50th win of his career. After all, why would he retire at 49-0, when he could come back for one more fight to finish his career with a perfect 50-0 record.

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Weights: Gonzalez 125, Russell Jr 125.8

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gonzalez6(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Dan Ambrose: WBC featherweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez (57-8, 48 KOs) successfully weighed in on Friday for his title defense on Saturday night against challenger Gary Russell Jr (25-1, 14 KOs) at the Palms Casino Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

The fight will be televised on Showtime Championship Boxing. Russell Jr weighed in at 125.8. The winner of the Gonzalez-Russell Jr fight will likely face former three division world champion Abner Mares.

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Martirosyan beats Nelson; Tommy Karpency edges Chad Dawson; Barthelemy wins

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Fight Night-0002(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / SHOWTIME) By Allan Fox: IBF World super featherweight champion Rances Barthelemy (21-0, 12 KOs) remained unbeaten in easily defeating #3 IBF Fernando David Saucedo (52-6-3, 8 KOs) by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Fox Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The final judges’ scores were 120-108, 120-108 and 120-108.

Barthelemy, 32, hurt Saucedo in the 5th round after hitting him hard with a left hand to the head. But he was unable to finish Saucedo off despite hitting him with everything he had. The round ran out before Barthelemy could get him out of there.

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Dawson-Karpency, Martirosyan-Nelson & Barthelemy-Saucedo this Saturday

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dawson100By Dan Ambrose: This Saturday night former IBF/WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (32-3, 18 KOs) will be fighting former world title challenger Tommy Karpency (23-4-1, 14 KOs) in a 10 round bout at the Foxwoods Resort, in Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA. This is a tune-up fight for the 32-year-old Dawson.

This fight should give a good indication how much Dawson has left in the tank, because Karpency has a pretty good chin. Dawson may have to go the full 12 rounds with him if he wants to get the victory. Hopefully for Dawson’s sake, he’s not blubbery like he was in his last fight against George Blades last June.

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Vanes Martirosyan to fight on May 10th on Arreola vs. Stiverne card

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martirosyan45By Dan Ambrose: #11 WBO Vanes Martirosyan (34-1-1, 21 KO’s) will be making a quick return to the ring next month on May 10th against an opponent still to be determined on the Chris Arreola vs. Bermane Stiverne 2 card at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles, California. Martirosyan, who is no longer promoted by Top Rank, wants to make up for lost time and wants to fight as often as possible to take his career to the next level.

Still young at 27, Martirosyan’s career has been in quicksand for the past four years with him seemingly fighting mostly endless tune-up bouts against older fighters without stepping it up in a consistent basis. He fought to a 9 round technical draw against Erislandy Lara in 2012, and he lost a 12 round split decision to Demetrius Andrade last November, but those were pretty much the only real meaningful fights he had during his career other than his controversial 10 round decision win over Kassim Ouma in 2010.

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Vanes Martirosyan faces Mario Lozano tonight on ESPN2

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martirosyan312By Allan Fox: Junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (33-1-1, 21 KO’s) will be fighting for the first time tonight with new promoter Dan Goosen and new trainer Joe Goosen in his 10 round bout on ESPN 2 against Mario Alberto Lozano (28-4, 22 KO’s) at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon, California. Martirosyan, 27, is no longer with Top Rank after his loss to Demetrius Andrade last November.

With Martirosyan no longer with Top Rank, he’s now more likely to have a better chance of getting fights against Golden Boy Promotions fighters like Erislandy Lara and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez than he was before.

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Vanes Martirosyan vs. Mario Alberto Lozano this Friday in Cabazon, California

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martirosyan32By Allan Fox: This Friday night, on March 21st, #11 WBO Vanes Martirosyan (33-1-1, 21 KO’s) will be facing little known Mario Alberto Lozano (28-4, 22 KO’s) at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, in Cabazon, California, USA. Martirosyan, 27, and Lozano will be fighting for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental light middleweight title. This should be a fairly easy fight for Martirosyan to win, as Lozano isn’t in his class and has never fought anyone even close to being as good as Martirosyan.

Martirosyan is coming off of a disappointing 12 round split decision loss to Demetrius Andrade in their fight for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title last November. The fight was a winnable one for Martirosyan, but he stopped being aggressive in the 2nd part of the bout when he appeared to run out of gas. This enabled the lanky Andrade to come on and take the fight by a narrow decision.

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Vanes Martirosyan to fight on March 21st on ESPN

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Make way, Chris Arreola! There’s another “Nightmare” in the Goossen Tutor Promotions stable of boxers, as promoter Dan Goossen today announced the signing of veteran world title challenger and world-ranked contender, Vanes “The Nightmare” Martirosyan.

The 6-0 tall, 27-year old Armenian native, who has lived in Glendale, California since emigrating there with his family at age 4, has compiled an impressive 33-1-1 record with 21 knockouts in his nearly nine years as a professional boxer while fighting under Bob Arum’s Top Rank, Inc. banner. The orthodox-style super welterweight was recently ranked as the #1 contender in most of the world sanctioning organizations. He formerly held the NABF Super Welterweight and NABO Junior Middleweight titles.

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Andrade defeats Martirosyan, captures WBO 154 lb. title

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CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, (November 9, 2013) After 12 rounds of boxing at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi the dominating Demetrius Andrade takes home the WBO Junior Middleweight Title tonight.

Judge Javier Alvarez had a questionable score of 115-112 for
Martirosyan, Judge Don Griffin scored 114-113 for Andrade, and Judge Jesse Reyes scored the bout 117-110 for the split decision win for Demetrius Andrade.

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Martirosyan with tough battle against Andrade on Saturday

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HBO’s hit late-night boxing franchise presents an action-packed tripleheader when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: ROCKY MARTINEZ VS. MIKEY GARCIA, NONITO DONAIRE VS. VIC DARCHINYAN II AND VANES MARTIROSYAN VS. DEMETRIUS ANDRADE is seen SATURDAY, NOV. 9 at 9:30 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT) from the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Tex., exclusively on HBO. The HBO Sports team of Jim Lampley, Max Kellerman and Roy Jones Jr. will be ringside for the event, which will be available in HDTV, closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired and presented in Spanish on HBO Latino.

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