December 2009 Schedule ( 5 WINS - 1 LOSS - 2 DRAWS)

BOXING - WIN

December 12, 2009

Vic Darchinyan

beats Tomas Rojas

via KO at 2:54 of Round 2

MUAY THAI - WIN

December 13, 2009

Vardan Mnatsakanyan
beats Salah Marroqui
in extra rounds

BOXING - LOSS

December 17, 2009

Arthur Marabyan
loses to Maxim Maslovvia
vis Unanimous Decision

MMA  - DRAW

December 18, 2009

Jared Papazian
vs Ryan Bastianelli

ends in a DRAW

MMA - WIN

December 18, 2009

Sako Chivitchyan
wins via Unanimous Decision

BOXING - WIN

December 19, 2009

MUAY THAI - DRAW

December 20, 2009

Levon Hakobyan
fights to a DRAW
against Khalid Ouali

MMA - WIN

December 31, 2009

Gegard Mousasi
TKO-s Gary Goodridge
at 1:34 of Round 1

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Fight Results

HyeFighter Gegard Mousasi WINS in Japan
and is Named Best European MMA Fighter
At the 2009 World MMA Awards

HyeFighter Gegard Mousasi landed a few swift inside leg kicks early in his fight with MMA legend Gary Goodridge, "The Dreamcatcher" wasted little time in pulling "Big Daddy" out of his element.

A swift takedown put Goodridge on his back, and a barrage of punches followed from Mousasi. Goodridge fought out of the position, only to wind up in a similar variation. Mousasi continued to unload punches from the top, and though many didn't seem to be offering direct contact, the bout was called to a halt.

Goodridge expressed his dismay at what he felt was a premature stoppage, and his concerns may have been valid, but he had offered nothing in the brief fight and his path to victory appeared completely unclear.

Mousasi (28-2-1) runs his current win streak to an impressive 15 contests

3 HyeFighters Fighting on the Same Card

Check out the KO from Art's Previous Fight

4 HyeFighters Fighting on the Same Card in MMA Action - January 24th, 2009 - Ontario CA

Fight News

HyeFighter Of The Year
Artyom Hovhannisyan

HyeFighters.com would like to congratulate Artyom Hovhannisyan for being named the HyeFighter of the year for 2008.  This award was presented to him on December 23, 2009 at the Top Armenian Athlete dinner banquet in North Hollywood.  Fellow HyeFighters were in attendance and were all happy for Artyom and celebrated the evening with him.  Last year's winner, Roman Mitichyan, made the presentation this year.

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Fight Results

HyeFighter Vanes Martirosyan Becomes
The NABF NABO Super Welterweight
Champion of The World

USA Olympian HyeFighter Vanes Martirosyan (26-0, 17 KOs) scored an impressive third round KO over Willie Lee (17-6, 10 KOs) to claim the NABF/NABO super welterweight belts. Martirosyan dropped Lee twice before it was stopped at the 2:13 mark. “I rushed myself during the first round, sort of took off in second and Freddie (Roach) told me to get more busy – to crank it up. That’s what I did,” said Vanes afterward. Trainer Freddie Roach added, “Vanes is ready for a world title shot. He’s 26-0, done his homework, he is ready for the big fight.”

Fight News

HyeFighters Sako Chivitchyan
& Jared Papazian Make Weight
For Friday Nights' Fights

National Fight Alliance Mixed Martial Arts (NFAMMA) along with the Ventura County Fairgrounds have joined forces to present MMA at the Fairgrounds 4 on December 18, 2009. Sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission. This event will showcase Professional Mixed Martial Artist's from Ventura County and beyond..

Fight Results

HyeFighter Arthur Marabyan
Loses via Unanimous Decision

Maxim Maslov (10-0-1, 7 KOs) scored a hard-fought unanimous decision over HyeFighter Artur Marabyan (12-2, 4 KOs) to capture a vacant EBU-EE heavyweight title. Maslov delivered rather lackluster performance despite a good start in round one, when he almost had Marabyan down and out but failed to get the job done. Marabyan, seemingly a plodder himself, was surprisingly active and gave Maslov fits throughout the whole fight. The local fighter took the control of the bout and did enough to get the nod on all three official scorecards: 117-111, 117-112 and 118-110. However, the fight seemed to be closer than that.

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Interview with Karen Darabedyan

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Interview with Karo Parisyan

HyeFighter News

HyeFighter Vic Darchinyan
Visits Local Gym

After knocking out Tomas Rojas on Saturday night, Vic Darchinyan paid a visit to the International Sports Union Gym in North Hollywood on Monday night.  The students were very excited and greeted the champ with exuberance, and Vic was very generous taking time to meet and speak with everyone and take pictures with them. Below are the photos from the night.

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Fight Results

HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan
Beats beats Salah Marroqui

In a revenge match, HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan beats Salah Marroqui in extra rounds on Sunday night in Spain.

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HyeFighter News

HyeFighter Georgi Karakhanyan
Trains The Troops

HyeFighter Georgi Karakhanyan does his part and provides training at a seminar for the US National Guard members.

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Seminar

HyeFighter Karo Parisyan Seminar

Karo Parisyan will be at MILLENNIA MMA for a seminar on 01/09/10. He will be giving a 4 hour seminar on foot sweeps, and how to use Judo in MMA. It's for everyone from beginners to advanced students.

The cost is $50, and you can register -- HERE --

Fight Results

HyeFighter Vic Darchinyan
wins via KO in the 2nd

WBC/WBA super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (33-2-1, 26 KOs) scored a spectacular second round KO over WBC interim super flyweight champion Tomas Rojas (32-11-1, 22 KOs). A good action fight ended when Darchinyan connected with a straight left that put Rojas down for the count at the 2:54 mark.

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Fight News

HyeFighter Karo Parisyan Debut's
New Shirt Line

Hyefighter, Karo "The Heat" Parisyan has release his new line of Tshirts which are available for sale now.  Get yours now!!!

Fight News

HyeFighter WBA super champion’s belt named after “Killer Queen” Suzy Kentikian

Professional boxer Suzy Kentikian, better known as the Killer Queen, the world champion of the World Boxing Association's (WBA) and the Women's International Boxing Association's (WIBA), was awarded a new WBA "super champion" belt. The WBA also proclaimed Suzy to be the 2009 Female Boxing Champion of the world.

Suzy was awarded the belt in Medellin, Columbia, during the WBA's 88th annual conference. During the ceremonies, WBA Executive Vice President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza announced that henceforth the super champion's belt would be called the Suzy Kentikian belt.

"From now on, all women champions who are able to repeat Kentikian's success will be awarded with the superchampion's belt, which will be called the Suzy Kentikian belt," Mendoza said.

For her part, Suzy thanked the executive and the WBA for awarding her with this special belt. "I am happy and it is a great honor for me to receive this belt. It was worth traveling to Columbia for," Suzy joked.

The 22-year-old boxer has won 26 of her last 26 bouts (16 of which were knockouts) and in the last two and a half years has successfully defended her title 12 times.

Fight News

Two HyeFighters on the Same Card
in Spain - K1 Rules

HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan will be getting his chance to avenge last month's loss to Salah Marroqui and Mher Hovsepyan will be making his professional debut against Alexis Roldán.

Fight News

HyeFighter Jared Papazian
in MMA Action

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News

Charity Poker Tournament Raises $3,500 for the HyeFighter of the Year Award

Last weekend's charity poker tournament raised $3,500 for the HyeFighter of the Year award.  This year's award will be presented on December 22, at the Armenian Athletes Awards Banquet in Glendale (more info to follow soon).  We would like to thank everyone who participated in raising this money and want to remind everyone that there is time to contribute to this award if you like.  Simply click on the DONATE button below and make a donation of any amount.  Thank you.

Upcoming Fight

HyeFighter Vanes Martirosyan
Set to Fight For Title

DECEMBER 19TH LIVE ON PAY PER VIEW undefeated Top-10 super welterweight contender HyeFighter VANES MARTIROSYAN (25-0, 16 KOs), of Glendale, Calif., will challenge NABF super welterweight champion WILLIE LEE (17-5, 10 KOs), of New Orleans, in a 12-round bout for the NABF NABO TITTLE, followed by the main event, Pavlik vs. Espino.

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Fight Results

HyeFighters Sevak Magakian
Looses via TKO

By Grant Gordon - Glendale News Pess

In the world of mixed martial arts, anything can happen.

It’s a reality that HyeFighter Sevak Magakian is well aware of and it’s why he was in positive spirits less than 24 hours after he suffered a defeat in the main event at Respect in the Cage II at Fox Theater in Pomona.

The Glendale fighter lost at the 2:42 mark of the first round against Bobby Green after Green busted open Magakian’s head with a knee that elicited the stoppage and the technical knockout win for the Fontana fighter late Friday night.

“It was a good fight,” Magakian said. “I knew I could beat him, I just got caught.”

Magakian said he pulled off three judo throws, three takedowns and attempted a kimura, but simply got caught by a knee from the seasoned Green (11-2), who is likely the top fighter Magakian’s faced in his young career.

“It’s all good, I’ll learn from my mistakes,” Magakian said. “It’s just a fight, everybody has losses. Next time I’m gonna come back stronger and more aggressive.

“I just got a few stitches and it’s back to training for my next fight.”

Magakian, who had a six-fight winning steak snapped, had been training for a Nov. 14 CalledOut MMA card that was canceled. Hence, he was looking for a fight, so he took one against Green on just five days’ notice.

Green has now won three straight fights, his last loss coming on an Affliction pay-per-view card.

Fight Results

HyeFighters Manny Gamburyan
& Karen Darabedyan Both WIN at WEC 44

Aldo's first title challenger may have been determined in the night's co-feature.

picture courtesy of:Dave Mandel/Sherdog.com

From the moment "The Ultimate Fighter 5" runner-up HyeFighter Manny Gamburyan made his move from the UFC to WEC, fellow octagon vet Leonard Garcia appeared an obvious opponent.

And as both fighters continued moving up the featherweight ladder and into title contention, WEC officials decided to make the bout official while all but assuring the winner a shot at the belt.

The heated, three-round back-and-forth scrap went as expected, and even after 15 hard-fought minutes, a winner wasn't obvious. Only after the judges' scores were read (30-27, 29-28, 29-28) could Gamburyan finally celebrate his victory.

With takedowns at key times (which were often secured with little more than brute strength and determination) and the ability not to get suckered into his opponent's wild and frantic exchanges, Gamburyan implemented a solid game plan to grind out the decision win. It wasn't easy, though, as Garcia audibly dared the Armenian fighter to engage while dropping his hands and waving him in.

Gamburyan, though, knew a key to victory was avoiding Garcia's big punches.

"I knew he was a tough guy," he said. "Guys, he really does hit hard. ... Hopefully we can do it again sometime."

Gamburyan moves to 10-4 overall and 2-0 in the WEC with the win. Garcia, meanwhile, drops to 13-5 (3-2 WEC).

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Armenian transplant HyeFighter Karen Darabedyan thought he did enough to nab a decision against former lightweight champion Rob McCullough in his WEC debut, but he had to sweat it out some as the scorecards were read.

Two of the three ringside observers saw it in Darabedyan’s favor, 30-27 and 29-28, but world-renowned boxing referee Tony Weeks scored it 30-27 for McCullough.

Darabedyan gave McCullough trouble early in the fight with powerful left jabs, and when he engaged the former titleholder in flurries, he got the best of him virtually every time. McCullough’s Team Punishment cornermen begged him to throw more leg kicks, but he could not seem to crack Darabedyan’s style and looked reluctant to unleash. Darabedyan controlled the pace of the first two rounds and seemed as if he was going to coast unless the wheels came off in the fight’s final round.

McCullough turned the tide in round three, as he figured out his foe’s gameplan and unloaded with a vicious array of leg kicks. When McCullough goaded Darabedyan into spurts of flurries, his right hand and short left hook landed more frequently than not. Darabedyan eventually relented and backed away, sensing perhaps it was in his best interest to steer clear. McCullough’s rally fell short as a result.

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