{"id":589629,"date":"2025-11-23T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589629\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:10:14","slug":"vanes-martirosyan-former-world-title-challenger-dies-at-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589629\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanes Martirosyan, former world title challenger, dies at 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Martirosyan went undefeated in his first 34 professional bouts, running his record to 33-0-1, with his only blemish being a draw against Erislandy Lara, before he lost a split decision in a vacant WBO junior middleweight title fight against Demetrius Andrade in 2013. Martirosyan\u2019s three losses would all come against world champions, including Jermell Charlo, to whom Martirosyan lost a close decision in 2015, and another decision loss to Lara in a 2016 rematch. During his career, Martirosyan defeated two former world champions, including Kassim Ouma and Ishe Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martirosyan went undefeated in his first 34 professional bouts, running his record to 33-0-1, with his only blemish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[185810,185811,1935,156418,15296,9813,7126,79,16,15,185809,185812],"class_list":{"0":"post-589629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-andre-berto","9":"tag-athens-2004","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-erislandy-lara","12":"tag-gennady-golovkin","13":"tag-mauricio-sulaiman","14":"tag-olympics","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-vanes-martirosyan","19":"tag-wild-card-boxing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115601540504720059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}