Vanes Martirosyan - new Armenian boxer

[nimda]

Famous enough?

He lost to Cubans in Athens.

Meet The US Olympians - Vanes Martirosyan
http://www.maxboxing.com/Gerbasi/Gerbasi0727b04.asp


3 U.S. boxers punched out of Games
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/20/SPGFP8BL5O1.DTL

[Genuine_Stud]

Famous enough?

He lost to Cubans in Athens.

3 U.S. boxers punched out of Games
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/20/SPGFP8BL5O1.DTL

Yea..... it's messed up that he lost to the Cuban, but if you look at it realistically..... he was bound to meet a more experienced fighter eventually.

However, I do commend him for making it as far as he did. Bravo! Mer hye anoona togh meesh esents bartsr mna.

As far as the other US teammate that was scheduled to fight, Vicente Escobedo......he lost to the Azerbaijiani boxer. I saw the fight and the Azerbaijiani actually fought pretty good. The US boxer missed most of his punches with the Azerbaijiani dodging away and countering with great punches.

[Zoran]

Yes, Vanes did very good!

[HyeJinx1984]

Has and Armenian ever gone up against a Turk or an Azeri? I wonder what would happen.. if I remmeber correctly, many muslim nations refused to play against Israel.

[TigranJamharian]

why, because the humilition would be too great if they lost? stupid muslims.

Now instead of talking about someone who doesnt even represent Armenia and didnt really go that far how about we congragulate Alexan Nalbandyan who actually represented Armenia and was 1 fight away from a medal. Props to that man, hopefully he will come back next time but i doubt it as he is already in his mid 30's.
Anyway, we need more boxers in beijing and then we will definately come up against one of those cowardly azerbaijanis who flooded the competition with their inexperienced boxers.

[JanHayastan]

JAN VANES!!!!!

Of course he is the most famous Armenian...

Even Obama got nothin on Vanes :laugh:

look www.myspace.com/VanesBoxing