EX-WBO CHAMPION ARTHUR GRIGORYAN TO FIGHT AGAIN

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.02.2009 16:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ex-WBO lightweight champion Arthur Grigoryan, who
finished his career in 2004, will be fighting at 25th Anniversary
Show of Universum Promotion Company. Arthur Grigoryan will rival
Bulgaria’s Kirkor Kirkorov in a six-round match.

World Boxing champions Suzy Ketikyan, Ina Menzer, Alesia Graf and
Regina Halmich will adopt unusual roles of ring card girls to announce
the start of rounds.

Grigoryan, who’ll become 42 this year, carried the belt of WBO Champion
from 1996 to 2004. Arthur is an Uzbek boxer of Armenian descent. He
was an amateur competition champion at Goodwill Games in Seattle, won
a silver medal at 1991 World Boxing Championship and was awarded with
USSR Honored Master of Sports title. He came out victorious against
such famous professionals as Leonardo Dorin and Shane Mosley. During
his professional career, he had 37 winning combats, losing only once –
to Brazilia’s unbeatable Acelino Freitas.

After termination of his sports career Artur Grigoryan stayed at
Universum Company in the capacity of a coach.