Sebastian Terteryan dedicated his first-round KO in his pro debut this past Saturday to Vanes Martirosyan, a fighter he never met but hoped would be ringside for one of his fights.
Vanes Martirosyan, the 2004 US Olympian and former world title challenger, died Sunday at the age of 39 following a two-year battle with skin cancer.
Vanes Martirosyan didn’t flinch at the most rigorous tests a boxer of his size could sign up for over the past decade-plus.
TMZ have revealed that junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan was arrested on September 16, with police officials alleging that he headbutted his wife. According to Glendale police in California, Vanes got into an argument with his wife in their Glendale-area home on September 15. Law enforcement sources allege that the altercation started as a verbal fight, but then things took a violent turn.
Junior middleweight Vanes Martirosyan (36-4-1, 21 KOs) is regretting his departure from Al Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions banner. Back in 2017, Vanes was a bit frustrated with career push and made a decision to part ways with Haymon.
In the last few days, junior middleweight Vanes Martirosyan (36-4-1, 21 KOs) has been venting heavy over his fallout with veteran promoter Don King. Vanes is on the verge of retirement from the sport, after sitting on the shelf since getting out knocked out by then middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in May 2018. Vanes came in as a late replacement for Canelo Alvarez, who failed a drug test.
Former super welterweight world contender Vanes Martirosyan of Glendale, Calif., is the first standout to join International Championship Boxing, promoter of the revolutionary and exciting new combat sport that features boxing in a cage.
Vanes Martirosyan took offense to dismissive comments Canelo Alvarez made about him earlier this week. Martirosyan slammed Alvarez in a Tweet he sent out Friday morning in response to Alvarez’s criticism during a press conference Tuesday that was streamed live on Facebook. Alvarez essentially said he doesn’t put much stock in Gennady Golovkin’s second-round knockout of Martirosyan on May 5 because Martirosyan isn’t on their level.
Former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is targeting a return date of August 11. Chavez Jr. has been out of the ring since May 2017, when he lost a twelve round unanimous decision to Mexican rival Canelo Alvarez at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The contest took place at a catch-weight of 164.5-pounds.
Trainer Andre Rozier is one of the most honest and forthright individuals in the sport of boxing. And when you ask him about Danny Jacobs (34-2, 29 KOs) recent victory over Maciej Sulecki, he had mixed reviews. "Danny was trying a little bit too hard to impress the crowd at the Barclay Center