15rounds.com (press release)
July 26 2005

USA OLYMPIAN VANES MARTIROSYAN
ON ERIK MORALES/MANNY PACQUIAO
FIGHT CARD SEPT 10 AT STAPLES!

USA Olympian Vanes ‘Nightmare’ Martirosyan, a hard-hitting super
welterweight, will box on Top Rank’s big fight card which will
feature three-time world champion Erik ‘El Terrible’ Morales and
former world champion Manny Pacquaio at the STAPLES Center on
Saturday, Sept. 10.

Martirosyan, handled by Shelly Finkel and trained by Freddie Roach,
is from Glendale, Calif. Martirosyan is 2-0-0 as a pro and lives and
trains in Glendale, Calif.

“I was born in Abozyan, Armenia,” said Vanes. “My Dad was an amateur
boxer and I guess he saw it in me too. He said I had a lot of energy
because I was always running around the house. He took me to a local
boxing gym and at the age of seven I began to box. I wound up with
130 amateur fights and won 120 of those.

“I speak Armenia, of course, English and I know a little Spanish. I
can pronounce some words in Russian too,” he said.

Martiroysan will be at the Top Rank press conference on Wednesday.
Morales and Zahir Raheem will be at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Rodeo
Room, at 11:30 a.m. to discuss their upcoming bout at the STAPLES
Center in Los Angeles.

FIGHT NOTEBOOK – Raheem, handled by Cameron Dunkin, is trained by Don
House who works with Kid Diamond and Steven Luevano at the new ‘House
of Champions’ gym on Flamingo in Las Vegas….House will be at the
Wednesday press conference. He will outline a blueprint for Raheem to
take on Morales.