{"id":365924,"date":"2025-12-24T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365924\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:39:06","slug":"armenian-fighter-spartak-mikayelyan-nominated-for-immaf-best-mma-fighter-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365924\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian fighter Spartak Mikayelyan nominated for IMMAF Best MMA Fighter award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/en\/category\/mma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                   <a href=\"#comments\" class=\"text-secondary\" style=\"font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;\"><br \/>\n                          \ud83d\udcac<\/p>\n<p>                            Comment<\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                      Dec. 24, 2025, 1:47 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>                      Author:<\/p>\n<p>                        <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/en\/author\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                          Vahe Hakobyan<br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/ru\/contacts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportaran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Armenian athlete <a href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/en\/post\/chempion-mira-spartak-mikaelyan-sleduyushij-boj-provedu-v-profi-mma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spartak Mikayelyan<\/a>\u00a0has been included in the list of nominees for the title of Best Amateur MMA Fighter of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the 21-year-old Mikayelyan achieved an impressive result by <a href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/en\/post\/spartak-mikaelyan-chempion-mira-po-mma-sredi-vzroslyh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winning <\/a>a gold medal at the 2025 IMMAF MMA World Championship \u2014 the first such achievement in Armenia\u2019s history. Previously, he also became a youth world champion, strengthening his status as one of the most promising Armenian MMA fighters.<\/p>\n<p>To support the athlete in the voting, you need to follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSnMpQWCB6H\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link to the competition page<\/a> and leave a comment tagging @spo078 under the relevant post.<\/p>\n<p>Other nominees in this category include:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGadzhi Gadzhiev (Bahrain)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVincent Verly (Switzerland)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGimbat Magomedov (Bahrain)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMMAF Best Athletes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/spovote.webp.webp\" style=\"width:80%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sportaran\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sportaran\" rel=\"nofollow\">Telegram Sportaran<\/a>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                          Updated: Dec. 24, 2025, 1:47 p.m.\n                        <\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA \ud83d\udcac Comment Dec. 24, 2025, 1:47 p.m. Author: Vahe Hakobyan Sportaran Armenian athlete Spartak Mikayelyan\u00a0has been included&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-365924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}