Armen Zakaryan

Armen Zakaryan

Personal information
Born	Armenia
Height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Boxing
Event(s)	Light Welterweight
Medal record European Amateur Championships 2013 Minsk Light Welterweight

Armen Zakaryan (Armenian: Արմեն Զաքարյան, Russian: Армен Закарян) is an Armenian-born^[2] Russian amateur boxer.

Career

Zakaryan won gold at the Russian National Boxing Championship in November 2012.^[3] He won a gold medal at the 2013 European Amateur Boxing Championships.^[4]

On January 31, 2015, he became the AIBA Pro Boxing world champion in his weight category by defeating Artem Harutyunyan, in a closely fought game. Zakaryan won five out of the eight rounds.^[5] However, in September 2015, he lost the Championship bout to Artem Harutyunyan, in an even more close game. Harutyunyan was declared the winner by split decision of the judges after 12 rounds of play.^[6]

References

1. "Armen Zakaryan - AIBA Profile".
2. "First Golds for Russia at Euro Boxing Champs". RIANOVOSTI. 8 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
3. "21.Russian National Championships - Syktyvkar - November 12-20 2012". Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
4. "40.European Championships Palace of Sport, Minsk, Belarus June 1-8, 2013". Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
5. Jim McGrady (31 January 2015). "Five More Champions Crowned as AIBA Pro Progresses". The Boxing Tribune.
6. "APB championships: Mihai Nistor pulls off big upset, TKOs Erik Pfeifer". ProBoxing-Fans.com. 22 September 2015.

Further reading

• "#APB Armen Zakaryan (64kg), APB World Champion: “Artem Harutyunyan and Abdelkadir Chadi have performed impressively and I look forward to facing one of them in the ring”". EUBC. 26 June 2015.