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May 2009 Schedule |
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WIN - BOXING
May 1,
2009 |
WIN - BOXING
May 9,
2009 |
WIN - BOXING
May 16,
2009 |
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WIN - MMA
May
16,
2009 |
WIN - MMA May 16, 2009
Karen Darabedyan |
WIN - MMA May 16, 2009
Sevak Magakian |
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WIN - MUAY THAI May 16, 2009
Gago Drago |
WIN - MUAY THAI
May 16,
2009 |
WIN - MUAY THAI May 16, 2009
Marat Grigorian |
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WIN - BOXING
May 21,
2009 |
WIN - MMA
May
26, 2009 |
LOSS - MMA
May
28, 2009 Submission - Rear Naked |
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LOSS - BOXING
May 30,
2009 |
WIN- BOXING
May 30,
2009 |
WIN - BOXING
May
30, 2009 |
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UPDATE
HyeFighter
Arthur Abraham will
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Unbeaten HyeFighter
IBF middleweight champion “King” Arthur
Abraham will return on June 27th to defend
against Mahir Oral (25-1-2, 10 KOs) at the
Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin. Originally,
Abraham was to defend against mandatory
challenger Giovanni Lorenzo, however, since
no contractual agreement was reached, the
IBF approved a voluntary defense against
Oral at their convention in Panama City. The
deadline for the mandatory defense is now
September.FIGHT RESULT
HyeFighter
Mousasi Submits Hunt
And in an EXCLUSIVE to HyeFighters.com Gegard has informed us that he will be in Anaheim CA, on the Affliction 3 card on August 1, 2009 to face Vitor Belfourt. We are asking all of you great HyeFighters fans to be out there en force cheering for our visiting HyeFighter!!!
Watch the video from of the fight:
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HyeFighter
striker Gegard Mousasi (25-2-1) figured to
have his hands full with heavy hitting Kiwi
Mark Hunt (5-6). But rather than attempt to
strike with the massive Hunt, Mousasi took
advantage of a quick knockdown to gain
control of the bout.
UPDATE HyeFighter Mousasi Ready for Giants
Mousasi (24-2-1), who relinquished his Dream middleweight title in January to face bulkier opposition and (hopefully) bigger competitive challenges, will join monsters like Hong Man Choi and Bob Sapp in the promotion’s freakish “Super Hulk” tournament on May 26 in Yokohama, Japan. But when it comes to the battle of the scales, this fighter is a true Armenian at heart - he is NOT intimidated by his opponents size or weight. He is ready and willing to take on all comers. The 23-year-old standout draws hardheaded Samoan and 2000 K-1 World Grand Prix Champion Mark Hunt in the first round. Skimming this tale of the tape, Hunt could weigh anywhere between 280 and 300 pounds come fight time. Mousasi figures that he’ll shoot for 98 kilograms, or a whopping 216 pounds. Tipping his hat to martial arts’ purists that believe a true champion can succeed against any opponent ginormous or small, the surprisingly shy and unassuming Mousasi stands firmly in Camp Cajones.
So don’t go
telling the Armenian-born Holland-based
fighter that he might be biting off more
than he can chew. “Fedor [Emelianenko] is also small,” Mousasi told Sherdog.com in an exclusive interview last January. “Mike Tyson was also very small for a heavyweight, but he beat the crap out of people.” Once the dust settles on the “Super Hulk” experiment though, the 6-foot-1 Mousasi’s future might lie in the 205–pound division, whose cup runneth over into the UFC’s Octagon. If Mousasi is really looking for a challenge, light heavyweights like UFC champion Rashad Evans, Forrest Griffin, and even middleweight king Anderson Silva –- who’s been known to moonlight at 205 pounds –- would all be engaging opposition for sure. However, they’re not on Mousasi’s radar just yet.
In fact, Mousasi doesn’t see an Octagon debut in his future, at least not in 2009. He plans to make his stateside debut for Affliction in August, while staying loyal to the promotion that has given him leniency in his recent pursuits. “I want to stay with Dream because they have treated me very well,” Mousasi said in January. “It feels like, if I go to UFC, I let them down. I want to go to boxing too. I’d like to fight Vitor Belfort in boxing. I think that would be a good, interesting fight that people would want to see.” Forget boxing. How about an MMA bout in August? There’s little doubt Mousasi would turn that down if Affliction could pull it off this summer. As for Hunt, Mousasi seems to have his strategy all etched out, although he isn’t at liberty to share it. “It’s not about the weight. It’s about how I can fight better,” Mousasi wrote in an email shortly after his bout with Hunt was announced. “Trust me, I am going to win......Hastad” |
HyeFighter
Gegard Mousasi will officially begin his
“Weight is Just a Number” campaign in May.
“I think it
would be good fights, but those fights I
don’t concentrate on because they are only
UFC. I don’t think about those fights,” he
said.FIGHT RESULTS All 3 HyeFighters WIN at Call To Arms 1!!!
HyeFighters.com would like to commend Call Of Arms 1 for the great job they did Saturday night. We would like to give special thanks to Mike Rush, Brett Roberts & George Bastermajyan for their support of HyeFighters.com. See the pictures below:
By Gabriel Rizk - Glendale News Press ONTARIO — While the night was long, the performances of Glendale mixed martial arts fighters Karen Darabedyan and Sevak Magakian were short and sweet Saturday evening at Call to Arms 1 in Ontario. In what were arguably the two biggest wins of both young fighters’ careers, Magakian submitted Harold Lucambio in 1:59 of the first round, while Darabedyan opened up a cut that stopped veteran Joe Camacho after their bout’s opening round at the Ontario Citizens Business Bank Arena.
The 12-fight card that lasted roughly five hours and ended right around midnight Sunday was headlined by former International Fight League champion and Ultimate Fighting Championship contender Vladimir Matyushenko defeating Jason Lambert, another former UFC veteran, via unanimous decision in a light-heavyweight tilt. In the card’s ninth bout, a lightweight battle, Darabedyan controlled the fight standing and on the ground to improve to 7-1 against Camacho (11-14-3). “I was way too confident coming into this fight, I was way too determined to lose,” said Darabedyan in a postfight interview inside the cage. “I needed to step it up.” Darabedyan and Camacho stayed on their feet in the early going, with the former gaining an edge before pushing his opponent to the cage. Darabedyan eventually put together some good right-left combos before a flurry pushed Camacho back and led to another clinch against the cage that eventually led to a break. Showing a solid Muay Thai clinch, Darabedyan landed a solid knee, pushed Camacho to the cage and landed a good right-left combo coming out of the clinch. The space initiated by Darabedyan revealed that he’d opened a sizable cut over the right eye of Camacho that soon covered much of the right side of his face. Once again the fight ended up in a clinch against the cage with Darabedyan once more imposing his will, landing knees to his opponent’s thighs and a trio of uppercuts, two to the body and one to the chin before the round came to an end. Between the first and second round, a ringside doctor examined Camacho’s cut, leading to referee Marcos Rosales’ stoppage. Magakian found a bit more decisive finish, winning his sixth straight bout — all of them by first-round submission. “I was confident with standup, I was confident on the ground,” he said. “I was confident wherever it went.” Magakian threw some jabs to start and a leg kick before the two locked up and went to the ground. Lucambio (4-4), who took the fight on short notice and was Magakian’s third scheduled opponent, got Magakian’s back. He was high up, however, and after a bit of a struggle, Magakian shook him down, but was right in position for an armbar, but Magakian also wiggled free of that. “He didn’t get anything,” Magakian said. “He grabbed me tight [on the choke], but I was so confident, I was so calm.” After freeing himself from the armbar, Magakian dropped down for a heel hook. Lucambio fought the hold tenaciously, but the two rolled over and Magakian eventually worked into a knee bar. “He slipped [the heel hook] a couple of times. He was so strong,” Magakian said. “I went to the knee and I got him with the knee bar.” Lucambio gritted his teeth as long as he could before finally tapping out.
In other notable fights, Georgi Karakhanyan, who has trained in Glendale in the past, looked impressive in pushing the pace throughout three rounds en route to a unanimous decision against Albert Rios. Karakhanyan (12-1-1) was relentless and controlled the featherweight fight striking and grappling against Rios (11-4), notching 30-27 scores on all three score cards.
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“This is the biggest
for sure,” said the 22-year-old Magakian, who
improved to 7-2 with his lightweight win, his
third of 2009. “This is the biggest stage, the
biggest card.”
FIGHT RESULTS
HyeFighter
Martirosyan wins by TKO
By Gabriel Rizk
- Glendale News Press
Martirosyan punished Cuello in the corner before chasing him to the opposite corner and delivering the final blows. “He was out on his feet,” said Martirosyan, whose fight Saturday was shortened to eight rounds after the change of opponent. “I feel very good. It was a very good win.” Saturday’s abbreviated outing marked the second time in his last three bouts that Martirosyan has delivered a first-round knockout. He stopped Charles Howe just 80 seconds into the first round on Nov. 1 at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, in what remains the quickest win of his career. Martirosyan, is now set to fight Andrey Tsurkan (26-4, 17 KOs) on June 27 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City in a 10-round affair..
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When
HyeFighters Vanes “Nightmare” Martirosyan’s
scheduled opponent, Juan Astorga, pulled out of
Saturday night’s 10-round clash just days before
the bout, the Glendale super welterweight
prospect didn’t bat an eye. Instead, he
simply battered Astorga’s short-notice
replacement, Harrison Cuello, for all of 2:13 of
the first round before winning via technical
knockout at Buffalo Bill’s Resort and Casino in
Primm, Nev. to improve his perfect record to
24-0 with his 15th knock- out. “We didn’t
care [about the change of opponent],” said
Martirosyan, whose confidence is at an all-time
high since reuniting with highly-regarded
trainer Freddie Roach, who prepared him for
Saturday’s contest. “We were ready for
anything.” Cuello (18-10-2, 14 KOs), from
Bronx, N.Y., by way of the Dominican Republic,
came out wild in the first round, but was
quickly subdued by the controlled fury of the
23-year old HyeFighter. “I just didn’t
stop throwing punches,” Martirosyan said.
As a prelude to the stoppage, Martirosyan caught
Cuello with a right hand and when Cuello lowered
his head, Martirosyan connected with right
uppercut that buckled Cuello’s knees.
FIGHT RESULTS
Trio of HyeFighters
Emerge Victorious
Fight 4 - Opening Bout Marat Grigorian wins a decision over Tarik Mokhtar
Fight 12 Giorgio Petrosyan wins a unanimous decision over Faldir Chahbari
Fight 16 Gago Drago wins by third round TKO (cut) over William Diender
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UPDATE HyeFighters Training Together!!!
With a number of fights coming up, a number of the local HyeFighters are training together regularly. On this night in May, Manny Gamburyan, Karen Darabedyan, Sevak Magakian, Jared Papazian, Sako Chivitchyan and Roman Mitichyan were all at Gokor Chivichyan's gym in North Hollywood California, sparring and getting ready for their fights under the tutelage of Gokor and Gene LaBelle.
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FIGHT RESULT Abraham Retains Title - TKO's Abdurakhmanov
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HyeFighter
Arthur Abraham’s younger brother and fellow
HyeFighter, Alexander (25-0-1, 17 KOs) scored an
easy fourth-round TKO over overmatched
Czech-based Russian Magomed Abdurakhmanov (14-3,
7 KOs). Abraham dominated from the outset. In
the second round, Abdurakhmanov was floored
after a thunderous uppercut by Abraham. After
another round of beating, the bout was stopped
at 2:30 of the fourth round after a big right to
the body which left Magomed in pain and unable
to defend himself. Abraham retained his EBU-EE
light middleweight title in the process.NEWSFLASH HyeFighters Interview on Horizon TV
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NEWSFLASH Khoren Gevor vs Felix Strum Confirmed
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Universum
Box-Promotion has confirmed that WBA
middleweight champion Felix Sturm (32-2-1, 14
KOs) and European middleweight champion
HyeFighter Khoren Gevor (30-3, 16 KOs) will
collide on July 11th in Nürburg, Germany. The
bout will take place in the new Ring Arena
located at the famous Nürburgring Speedway
during the weekend of the 2009 German Formula 1
Grand Prix. The card will also feature a fight
for the vacant WBC interim middleweight title
between #2 rated Sebastian Zbik (26-0, 10 KOs)
and #1 Domenico Spada (29-1, 14 KOs). Tickets
for this attractive world title twinbill go on
sale Monday at boxing.de and all the regular
ticket outlets.NEXT BIG CARD - MMA EVENT - MAY 16 3 HyeFighters On The Same Card!
Call to Arms 1 will feature these great MMA Fighters, including 3 very exciting and up and coming HyeFighters: Karen Darabedyan, Georgi Karakhanyan, Sevak Magakian, Vladimir Matyushenko, Jason Lambert, Daniel Puder, , Albert Rios, Joe Camacho, Karen Darabedyan, William Richey, Wander Braga, Jaime Fletcher, J.J. Ambrose, Toby Grear, Saad Awad, and more May 16th.
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GAMBRYAN's WEC DEBUT - JUNE 7th Manvel "The Anvil" Makes his WEC Debut
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The
Ultimate Fighter® Season Five runner-up
HyeFighter Manvel Gamburyan (10-5) makes his
WEC featherweight debut when he takes on
unbeaten John Franchi (5-0). Known for his judo
throws and effectiveness inside an opponent’s
guard, Hollywood, California’s Gamburyan drops
to 145-pounds and becomes an instant contender
at featherweight. He hopes to make a great first
impression against the 26-year-old Franchi.
Training out of Cortland, NY, Franchi earned a
hard-fought decision victory over Mike Budnik in
his WEC debut in March. Riding the momentum of
his first WEC win, Franchi plans to offer
Gamburyan a rude welcome to the 145-pound class
when the two collide on June 7th, but he needs
to be more worried about the raw power of the
Anvil.NEXT BIG CARD - BOXING EVENT - JUNE 12 2 HyeFighters On The Same Card!
HyeFighters Artyom Hovhannisyan & Gapo Dolmajyan will be putting their talents on display in their hometown of Glendale CA.
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FIGHT RESULTS HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan Wins
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