Gennady Martirosyan (born 23 February 1980) is a Russian-based Armenian professional boxer. He held the WBO European middleweight title, as well as being a contender for the WBO World middleweight title, losing against Dmitry Pirog.
Pro Martirosyans debut came on 30 September 2005. In November 2008, 15 fights and 14 wins later, he won his first title match, beating Alexey Chirkov for the Vacant Russian Middleweight title in Saint Petersburg.
In his next fight, on 20 February 2009, Martirosyan knocked out Thailand's Kiatchai Singwancha for the PABA middleweight title. In April he successfully defended this title with a unanimous decision victory over Vedran Akrap.
on 27 June 2009 he faced his biggest challenge yet in fighting the undefeated future interim champion Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam. After going down in the third round but recovering, Martirosyan was knocked out in the tenth round and registered his second defeat.
Back in St Petersburg and a recovery win later, Martirosyan fought for the vacant WBO European middleweight title. He was successful, on 31 October 2009 he stopped Miguel Angel Pena by 5th-round TKO.
Martirosyan spent 2010 defending his title. After knockout wins over Aziz Daari and Vitor Sa, he became WBOs number one ranked middleweight contender.
This of course finally meant the chance to face Dmitry Pirog to become world champion. The battle took place on 25 September 2011 in Krasnodar and would be the second to last fight for both fighters. They fought for ten rounds, with Pirog leading and Martirosyan cut badly. Martirosyan could not come out of his corner for the 11th and the bout was stopped with Pirog victorious.
In 2017, after four years of inactivity, Martirosyan made a comeback, defeating Georgian Nikolozi Tasidis Gviniashvili by decision in Germany.
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes33Loss26–7Orkhan GadzhievTKO3 (10)20 Sep 202232Loss26–6Edgard MoskvichevUD1011 Jun 202131Loss26–5Ibrahim GuemesTKO6 (12), 16 Nov 201930Loss26–4Fouad El MassoudiSD1027 Oct 201829Win26–3Artem KarasevUD619 Aug 201828Win25–3Artem KarpetsPTS611 Nov 201727Win24–3Nikolozi GviniashviliUD630 Jun 201726Win,23–3Omar MarabayevUD62 Nov 201325Loss22–3Dmitry PirogRTD10 (12), 25 Sep 201124Win22–2Antonio Valentín OchoaTKO6 (10), 16 Apr 201123Win21–2Vítor SáTKO3 (12), 29 Oct 201022Win20–2Aziz DaariRTD10 (12), 27 Feb 201021Win19–2Miguel Ángel PeñaTKO5 (12), 31 Oct 200920Win18–2Leonti VorontsukTKO1 (6), 18 Sep 200919Loss17–2Hassan N'Dam N'JikamKO10 (10)27 Jun 200918Win17–1Vedran AkrapUD1024 Apr 200917Win16–1Kiatchai SingwanchaKO9 (11), 20 Feb 200916Win15–1Alexey ChirkovRTD3 (10), 27 Nov 200815Win14–1Attila KovácsUD104 Oct 200814Win13–1Steven ConwayUD85 Jul 200813Win12–1Emanuel GonzálezMD1012 Apr 200812Win11–1Kai KauramakiTKO1 (8), 1 Mar 200811Win10–1Jairo ÁlvarezUD84 Oct 200710Win9–1Deniss AleksejevsRTD3 (8), 21 Jun 20079Win8–1Tagir RzaevUD83 May 20078Win7–1Dmitri ProtkunasUD616 Mar 20077Win6–1Ruslan SemenovUD810 Feb 20076Win5–1Andrei StaliarouKO2 (6)18 Nov 20065Win4–1Andrey TylilyukUD612 Oct 20064Win3–1Ruslan AkhmedzanovUD418 May 20063Win2–1Islam YasupovUD422 Mar 20062Loss1–1Ruslan YakupovTKO4 (6)24 Dec 20051Win1–0Vladimir ZavgorodniyTKO2 (4)30 Sep 2005
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