{"id":279567,"date":"2025-11-23T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279567\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:40:05","slug":"vanes-martirosyan-former-world-title-challenger-dies-at-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279567\/","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":279568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[114401,114402,2560,78449,16060,21540,5905,101,56,54,55,114400,114403],"class_list":["post-279567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-andre-berto","tag-athens-2004","tag-boxing","tag-erislandy-lara","tag-gennady-golovkin","tag-mauricio-sulaiman","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vanes-martirosyan","tag-wild-card-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}