{"id":177987,"date":"2026-02-14T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177987\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:21:08","slug":"birminghams-henry-aslikyan-bids-for-fourth-city-wrestling-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177987\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham’s Henry Aslikyan bids for fourth City wrestling title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s time to pay tribute to Birmingham High senior Henry Aslikyan, who makes his bid for a fourth consecutive City Section wrestling championship on Saturday night at Roybal. No Birmingham athlete has won four individual titles.<\/p>\n

He has continued to get stronger, bigger and better from the time he arrived as a freshman. He\u2019s been dominating the City lower weight classes <\/a>while becoming a two-time state champion.<\/a> <\/p>\n

He\u2019ll be competing in perhaps the toughest weight class in the state \u2014 120 pounds. He\u2019s a Michigan commit. There\u2019s likely to be three state champions in that weight class in two weeks in Bakersfield.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Birmingham has already won City titles in boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 duals competition. This time he is qualifying for the state championships in Bakersfield and individual titles.<\/p>\n

Adelaida Fernandez of Birmingham is trying for her third straight City title in girls\u2019 wrestling. Greg Torosian and Arno Vardanyan are also seeking third titles for the Patriots in boys.<\/p>\n

In the heavyweight division, Monroe\u2019s Abraham Datte is a two-time City champion.<\/p>\n

This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to pay tribute to Birmingham High senior Henry Aslikyan, who makes his bid for a fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[151,4598,8825,63272,84601,9514,84606,84603,84602,48,52,51,47,50,49,38585,17322,225,315,84604,84605],"class_list":["post-177987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bakersfield","tag-birmingham","tag-boy","tag-city-title","tag-fourth-city-wrestling-title","tag-girl","tag-greg-torosian","tag-henry-aslikyan-bid","tag-individual-title","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-monroe","tag-patriots","tag-state","tag-time","tag-tough-weight-class","tag-two-time-state-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}