27-year-old junior middleweight contender, Vanes Martirosyan (33-1-1, 21 KOs), will be returning to the ring March 21, headlining a Friday Night Fights card on ESPN2, after just signing an exclusive contract with Goossen Tutor Promotions. The Armenian talent formerly worked under Bob Arum's Top Rank banner, but was never quite able to make that leap from talented contender … [Read more...]
Garcia Destroys, Donaire Rebounds, Andrade Emerges on HBO Triple-Header
American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas-- Mikey Garcia (33-0, 28 KOs) affirmed his reputation as a stone cold boxing assassin by stopping WBO super featherweight titlist, Roman "Rocky" Martinez (27-2-2, 16 KOs) in eight rounds in the main event of an HBO Boxing triple header. A shocking flash knockdown of Garcia in the second was the only surprise in this bout as the … [Read more...]
Mikey Garcia vs. Rocky Martinez, plus Donaire vs. Darchinyan & Martirosyan vs. Andrade: The Boxing Tribune Preview
by Tim Harrison Top Rank and HBO return this Saturday with a Boxing After Dark broadcast featuring Roman “Rocky” Martinez’s (27-1-2, 16 KOs) WBO junior lightweight title defense against former featherweight titlist Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KOs), at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. The fights are set to begin at 9:30 PM ET/6:30 PM PT, with Vanes Martirosyan … [Read more...]
Vanes Martirosyan’s “Ow, My Balls!” Moment: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette In an interview (reported via Eastside Boxing), Vanes Martirosyan, recently removed from his draw against Erislandy Lara in a WBC junior middleweight title eliminator, said “My cut is healing well, but my balls are extremely sore!”, referring to a particularly blatant (in the mind of Martirosyan at least) low blow. For all of the testicles' vaunted … [Read more...]
Saturday’s Fight Recap: Scribblings from the Tweety notebook.
What to do when the Editor in Chief is stuck without access to his website during an entire day of fight action? Grab a notepad and start scribbling observations the old fashioned way: Abner Mares (25-0-1, 13 KOs) UD 12 Anselmo Moreno (33-2-1, 12 KOs) Mares' star keeps rising. The 26-year-old fought the right type of fight against a guy like Moreno. He pushed forward and … [Read more...]