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Vanes Martirosyan -vs- Jorge Munoz This Thursday LIVE on VERSUS TV!
from FightWriter.com
Martirosyan(18-0) -vs- Munoz(20-1)
Promising junior middleweight Vanes Martirosyan steps up to the 10-round distance when he opens Thursday’s Versus show against Jorge “Michi” Munoz, a 26-year-old Mexican boxer from Topeka, KS, who brings a respectable record of 20 wins and one loss. The only problem here is that when Munoz went in against his first really solid opponent he was widely outpointed by Contender competitor Joey Gilbert.
At least Munoz showed he can go 12 rounds in the fight with Gilbert, who is quite a strong puncher — in fact he was the only one of Gilbert’s last six opponents to hear the final bell.
Martirosyan, though, looks to be on a different level to Munoz. The tall Armenian-born boxer-puncher was exciting on his last Versus appearance when blasting out Oregon’s Dan Wallace in the first round but in his most recent fight he had to go the full six rounds when winning a widely scored decision over trial horse Clarence Taylor, while in October Martirosyan also was taken the limit by the durable Patrick Thompson.
Munoz looks another somewhat durable sort, but as I have not seen him I do not know what to expect. The fight seems designed as a Martirosyan showcase, but one in which U.S. Olympic representative will be taken some rounds. Maybe this will be a little like the Amir Khan fight on Saturday in which the up-and-coming boxer has his longest bout while adding to his ring education. There does not seem to be much doubt about who is going to win — but what will be interesting is how Martirosyan gets the job done.
Martirosyan(18-0) -vs- Munoz(20-1)
Promising junior middleweight Vanes Martirosyan steps up to the 10-round distance when he opens Thursday’s Versus show against Jorge “Michi” Munoz, a 26-year-old Mexican boxer from Topeka, KS, who brings a respectable record of 20 wins and one loss. The only problem here is that when Munoz went in against his first really solid opponent he was widely outpointed by Contender competitor Joey Gilbert.
At least Munoz showed he can go 12 rounds in the fight with Gilbert, who is quite a strong puncher — in fact he was the only one of Gilbert’s last six opponents to hear the final bell.
Martirosyan, though, looks to be on a different level to Munoz. The tall Armenian-born boxer-puncher was exciting on his last Versus appearance when blasting out Oregon’s Dan Wallace in the first round but in his most recent fight he had to go the full six rounds when winning a widely scored decision over trial horse Clarence Taylor, while in October Martirosyan also was taken the limit by the durable Patrick Thompson.
Munoz looks another somewhat durable sort, but as I have not seen him I do not know what to expect. The fight seems designed as a Martirosyan showcase, but one in which U.S. Olympic representative will be taken some rounds. Maybe this will be a little like the Amir Khan fight on Saturday in which the up-and-coming boxer has his longest bout while adding to his ring education. There does not seem to be much doubt about who is going to win — but what will be interesting is how Martirosyan gets the job done.
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