Vanes Martirosyan

Andrade says he’d beat Mayweather, Canelo and Cotto

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andradeBy Dan Ambrose: #2 WBO Demetrius Andrade (19-0, 13 KO’s) will be facing #1 WBO Vanes Martirosyan (33-0-1, 21 KO’s) this Saturday night for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title on HBO at the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. While Andrade still still hasn’t beaten Martirosyan, he already believes that he’ll beat Floyd Mayweather Jr., Miguel Cotto, Erislandy Lara and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez if given the chance.

The chances of Andrade getting fights against any of them are quite low, even if he stops Martirosyan on Saturday night. Andrade doesn’t have the name attract interest from any of those fighters except for perhaps Lara.

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Demetrius Andrade vs. Vanes Martirosyan this Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas

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ATLANTA (November 4, 2013) – As he prepares to break his Atlanta training camp and depart for this Saturday night’s fight against 2004 U.S. Olympian Vanes “Nightmare” Martirosyan (33-0-1, 21 KOs) for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior middleweight title, undefeated Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (19-0, 13 KOs) is set to make a major statement in Corpus Christi, Texas.

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Vanes Martirosyan vs. Demetrius Andrade in the works for Pacquiao-Rios undercard

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andradeBy Allan Fox: A fight between unbeaten junior middleweights Vanes Martirosyan (33-0-1, 21 KO’s) and Demetrius Andrade (19-0, 13 KO’s) is being worked on by Top Rank for the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Brandon Rios fight on November 23rd at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. The two will be fighting for the vacant WBO world junior middleweight title.

According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, Martirosyan’s manager Cameron Dunkin the deal is still being worked on.

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Mikey Garcia stops Juanma; Crawford defeats Sanabria

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garcia4543By Jim Dower: Fighting without his WBO title that he lost on the scales last Friday, Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KO’s) had an easy time stopping former two division world champion Juan Manuel Lopez (33-3, 30 KO’s) in the 4th round on Saturday night at the American Airlines Center, in Dallas, Texas, USA. Garcia knocked Lopez down with a nice right hand in the 2nd.

In the 4th round, Mikey nailed a desperate Juanma with a left hook to the head that dropped him on the canvas. The fight was then halted by Raphael Ramos at 1:35 of the round.

Lopez was jabbing continuously in the first two rounds, and he finally realized in the 2nd that he couldn’t stay on the outside and have any chance of winning. Late in the 2nd, Lopez begin to press the attack but then walked into a right hand that knocked him down.

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Vanes Martirosyan V Ryan Davis: Fight Preview

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martirosyan45By Sevak Sarkisian: Jr. Middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan will be making his return to the ring on June 15th at the American Airlines Center in Dallas Texas against journeyman Ryan Davis. This will be Martirosyan’s first fight after his draw with Erislandy Lara on HBO in November of last year.

As most fight fans already know, Martirosyan was and Olympian in Athens Greece and turned pro in 2005. In the beginning of his career Top Rank was bringing him up slowly. However, since 2009 Vanes has stepped up his level of opposition by facing and defeating guys like Kassim Ouma, Joe Greene, Saul Roman, and Erislandy Lara. Martirosyan is know a top ten Jr. Middleweight and should be within the reach of a title shot very soon.

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Viloria vs. Estrada & Martirosyan vs. Maciel on April 6th in China

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martirosyan45By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has put together a fight card head-lined by WBA/WBO flyweight champion Brian Viloria vs. Juan Francisco Estrada on April 6th at the Venetian Casino & Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China.

Also on the card will be unbeaten junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (32-0-1, 20 KO’s) will be fighting a 10 round bout against Argentinian Javier Francisco Maciel (25-1, 18 KO’s).

This fight is a strong signal that Martirosyan’s promoters at Top Rank are positioning him to go after what many boxing fans see as the weak link in the junior middleweight division in WBO champion Zaurbek Baysangurov.

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WBC removes Martirosyan from 154 lb. eliminator for Canelo

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martirosyan32By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council has chosen to remove unbeaten Vanes Martirosyan from the WBC junior middleweight eliminator for a shot at WBC 154 pound champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez after Martirosyan failed to say yes to a second eliminator bout against Erislandy Lara after their previous fight ended in a 9th round technical draw last November.

With Martirosyan now out of the hunt for a fight against Alvarez, the WBC will select another contender to face Lara in the WBC eliminator bout. A possible option is #3 WBC Sergiy Rabchenko (22-0, 16 KO’s), a hard hitting contender from Belarus with good skills but limited experience. He may not have the talent to beat Lara, but he does have the power to give Lara a difficult fight for as long as it lasts.

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Groves to face Ndiaye for EBU 168 lb title; Martirosyan-Lara rematch

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groves343434By Scott Gilfoid: Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (16-0, 12 KO’s) will be facing #8 WBC Mouhamed Ali Ndiaye (22-1, 13 KO’s) for James DeGale’s recently vacated EBU super middleweight title in a still determined time and venue. Groves’ promoter Frank Warren reportedly won the purse bid for the fight.

It’s a fight that is really hard to understand because Groves is ranked #1 WBO, #5 WBA, #6 WBC, #7 IBF and there’s really no point at all in facing the little known 33-year-old Ndiaye for the European Boxing Union strap when Groves is already going to be getting a title shot against World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham in 2013.

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Martirosyan would have lost to Lara had the fight gone the distance

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Image: Martirosyan would have lost to Lara had the fight gone the distanceBy Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (32-0-1, 20 KO’s) should consider himself very lucky that his fight was halted against Erislandy Lara (17-1-2, 11 KO’s) in the 9th round from a clash of heads last Saturday night because Martirosyan looked like he was on his way to losing that fight.

As it was the fight was halted and ruled a 9th round technical draw when Martirosyan was cut over the left eye during the head clash. It worked out well for Martirosyan because he was getting dominated in the last three rounds of the fight and he looked tired and confused against the southpaw Lara.

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