{"id":305853,"date":"2025-11-24T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305853\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:55:07","slug":"ex-olympic-boxer-vanes-martirosyan-dies-at-age-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305853\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Olympic boxer Vanes Martirosyan dies at age 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Olympic boxer Vanes Martirosyan has died.<\/p>\n<p>The World Boxing Council confirmed in a social media post on Sunday that Martirosyan has died at the age of 39. While no official cause of death was given, Manouk Akopyan of Ring Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/vanes-martirosyan-39-dies-after-two-year-battle-with-skin-cancer-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notes that Martirosyan was diagnosed with skin cancer<\/a> two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman also suggested in a statement that Martirosyan died from cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m deeply saddened by the news of Vanes Martirosyan, who lost his battle to cancer,\u201d Sulaiman said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/boxer-vanes-martirosyan-who-competed-team-usa-2004-olympics-dead-39\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Ryan Gaydos of FOX News<\/a>. \u201cVanes was a proud WBC silver champion and a dear friend. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martirosyan competed in the lightweight and middleweight divisions and was a three-time world title challenger. The Armenian native moved to California when he was 7 years old and represented Team USA at the 2004 Olympics, where he defeated Algeria\u2019s Benamar Meskine in the first round and lost to Cuba\u2019s Lorenzo Arag\u00f3n in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Martirosyan turned professional in 2006 and had a record of 36-4-1 with 21 knockouts. He won the first 32 fights of his career. His final bout came in 2018, when Gennady Golovkin <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/boxing\/ggg-treats-vanes-martirosyan-like-a-punching-bag-in-easy-win\/442218\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knocked out Martirosyan in the second round<\/a> to retain his WBA, WBC and IBO middleweight title belts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Olympic boxer Vanes Martirosyan has died. The World Boxing Council confirmed in a social media post on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85,173680],"class_list":["post-305853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-vanes-martirosyan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}