2004 U.S Olympian Vanes Martirosyan reportedly handed away earlier immediately at age 39 from most cancers. Martirosyan (36-4-1, 21 KOs) had been battling Squamous Cell Carcinoma most cancers. He’d been getting remedy for the issue.
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It was revealed earlier in November 2025 that Martirosyan was battling most cancers. He’d had a biopsy after experiencing intense ache. It was later identified that he had most cancers.
Vanes began his profession in 2005 and went undefeated till struggling his first loss to Demetrius Andrade by a 12-round break up resolution on November 9, 2013. His profession was rocky from that time on, as he misplaced to Jermell Charlo, Erislandy Lara, and eventually Gennadiy Golovkin.
Martirosyan retired after his second-round knockout loss to IBO and WBC middleweight champion Golovkin on Could 5, 2018. That was nonetheless a first-rate model of GGG, so it’s comprehensible why Vanes misplaced that combat.
If Martirosyan had fought on this period at 154, it will have been fascinating to see how he would have achieved in opposition to the highest fighters. He had each the ability and the scale to compete at junior middleweight on this period of the game.
When he was preventing, transferring as much as 160 on the finish of his profession was the improper transfer. He had the ability to dominate at 154, however got here undone when he went up in opposition to Andrade and Jermell Charlo.
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