ARTUR ABRAHAM TO COMPETE WITH DUTCH BOXER ON MAY 13
Noyan Tapan
Mar 16 2006
YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN. World champion among professionals by
the IBF version in the medium weight category Artur Abraham (Avetik
Abrahamian) who upheld this title at the March 4 match, will compete
with a Dutch boxer on May 13. Informing about it at the March 15
press conference, the sportsman mentioned that he wants to compete
with Americans Jermen Taylor and Vinky Right who are considered to
be the strongest boxers in the world by another versions.
The boxer from Yerevan has lived in Germany with his family for already
several years. However, he often visits his homeland. Artur Abraham
started to go in for boxing in Yerevan. He attended the sports school
of olympic champion Vladimir Yengibarian. He became the champion of
Armenia for several times. He served in the Armenian army. After
moving to Germany he became a professional boxer. The 26-year-old
boxer has held 20 matches with professionals and gained a victory in
all of them. He ended 17 of these victories with a knockout. As he
said, though he is currently representing Germany, he feels himself
an Armenian.