HyeFighters – Armenian Combat Sports

HYEFIGHTER of the month: July 2010 Gago Drago

HyeFighter Gago Drago wins the Enfusion Muay Thai Tournament Championship by beating 2 fighters in the same night.

Tickets For HyeFighter Manny Gamburyan’s WEC Championship Fight Available on July 31st

Unbeaten at 3-0 since dropping to featherweight last year, HyeFighter Manny Gamburyan (fighting out of Hollywood, Calif.) stunned many observers in April by knocking out former champion Mike Brown. The win earned the Armenian judo practitioner a shot at Aldo, and more importantly, the opportunity to realize a lifelong dream. With a world title in [...]

HyeFighter Murat Ready For His Turn

Unbeaten HyeFighter sensation Karo Murat (22-0, 13 KOs) from Germany, faces the biggest test of his young careers on September 18 when he travels to Birmingham for a special night of boxing at the LG Arena.
Murat takes on Nathan Cleverly (19-0, 9 KOs) in a WBO light heavyweight title eliminator. “There is so much talent [...]

All 3 HyeFighters Make Weight

All three HyeFighters, Georgi Karakhanyan, Jared Papazian & Haik Tsaturyan make weight for their “Respect In The Cage” MMA fights on Saturday night July 24th at the Hollywood Palladium.

HyeFighter Mousasi vs Mizuno for The DREAM LHW Championship

As expected the Japanese-based DREAM organization returns Sept. 25 for DREAM.16.
The event takes place at Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan, and airs in North America on HDNet.
No fighters have been announced for the card, but as MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported, both lightweight champ Shinya Aoki and UFC vet Caol Uno are expected to [...]

Bellator announces Karakhanyan vs Skelly for Sept 9

Bellator Fighting Championships has announced that Bellator 28 will be broadcasting from the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in downtown New Orleans on Thursday, Sept. 9th.
The show marks the first time that a major MMA promotion has traveled to New Orleans in nearly 10 years. Tickets go on sale at 1 p.m.
The [...]

HyeFighter Abraham Meets German Chancellor

HyeFighter King Arthur Abraham welcomed a special guest on Monday when German Chancellor Angela Merkel stopped by to visit the renowned training facilities in Kienbaum. Hundreds of world-class athletes, including dozens of Olympic gold medal winners and world champions, use the sports center each year to prepare for their events. [...]

HyeFighter Darchinyan Wants Montiel

By Ray Wheatley–World of Boxing
WBC/WBA super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (35-2-1, 27 KOs) has recently returned from a six week holiday with his wife where they visited Armenia, Russia and Fiji. Darchinyan talked with Fightnews to say he stopped chasing a fight with Nonito Donaire (24-1, 16 KOs) as he knows he will never give [...]

HyeFighter Mousasi Looking to Finish 2010 With 3 More Fights

After a 31-second dispatching of UFC vet Jake O’Brien at this past weekend’s DREAM.15 event, HyeFighter Mousasi is already itching to get back in action.
Three times, in fact.
“I hope to fight (in Strikeforce) in October,” Mousasi recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “I haven’t talked to (Strikeforce CEO) Scott (Coker). I met him in Japan, and [...]

HyeFighter Kentikian Makes Weight

HyeFighter & Champion Suzy Kentikian makes weight for her July 17th title defense against Mexico’s Arely Mucino.
Two days before his title defense, WBO light heavyweight champion Jürgen Brähmer has been forced to pull out of Saturday night’s fight against Alejandro Lakatos due to a back injury. On Thursday afternoon, after a training run and some [...]

HyeFighter Abraham to Fight Froch in Monaco

from FightNews.com
Following weeks of intense negotiations, SHOWTIME Sports® is proud to announce that Hennessy Sports and Sauerland Event—the promotional outlets for world-class super middleweight boxers Carl Froch and Arthur Abraham—have agreed to a location for their fighters’ crucial Super Six World Boxing Classic bout. On Saturday, Oct. 2, in the capital city/state of Monaco, Abraham [...]

HyeFighter Gago Drago Is Crowned Enfusion Champion

HyeFighter Gago Drago was crowned the first Enfusion Kickboxing champion on Friday nigh in Lisbon.
In the semi-final match, Gago KO’d the Englishman Barnhill in the 2nd round and advanced to the finals where we outpointed the Thai Pajonsuk to capture the first Enfusion Kickboxing championship.
Earlier that night, Pajonsuk beat fellow HyeFighter Armen Petrosyan by points [...]

HyeFighter Parisyan Picks Up Win In Australia

In what was intended to be the evening’s co-feature, HyeFighter Karo Parisyan returned to action for the first time since January 2009 and recorded a tougher-than-expected second-round submission win over tougher-than-expected local Ben Mortimer in what was actually the evening’s first fight.
“This was my first fight that I was away from my family, [...]

HyeFighter Mousasi’s Fight on HDNET Tonight

TOKYO — Former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez will not face Gegard Mousasi in the opening round of the Dream light heavyweight grand prix at Dream 15 on Saturday at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Rodriguez agreed to fill in as a replacement for Jake O’Brien, but Mousasi has instead agreed to face O’Brien, [...]

3 HyeFighters On Same Card

Saturday July 24th will be another one of those unforgettable fight night in Hollywood CA at the Palladium. Not one, not two, but THREE HyeFighters are scheduled to fight at the “Respect In The Cage” MMA fight night.
The three HyeFighters scheduled to fight are, Georgi Karakhanyan, Jared Papazian and Haik Tsaturyan.
If you live in the [...]

HyeFighter Art “Lion Heart” Hovhannisyan In Action Again

Saturday July 17, 2010 will mark the return of Lion Heart to the boxing ring.  This battle in the desert is bound to be a slugfest for the ages.
Make sure to get your tickets and join HyeFighters and our fans at the Agua Caliente Hotel in Rancho Mirage to cheer on Arttyom!!!!

HyeFighter Karo Parisyan Will Now Take On Ben Mortimer

Impact Fighting Championship (FC) will host it’s first fight in Australia this Saturday 10th July at Brisbane Entertainment Centre for The Uprising 1 event and then will head to Sydney on the 18th July to host The Uprising 2 event at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
Due to a training injury, Luis Dutra Jr will no [...]

Welcome HyeFighter Hovhannes Zhamkochyan

HyeFighters would like to welcome Hovhannes Zhamkochyan to the HyeFighters family!
Hovhannes is a professional boxer with 25 bouts under his belt, 20 wins (11 by KO), 4 losses and 1 draw.  He was born in Echmiadzin, Armenia on January 8th, 1982 and currently fights out of Belgium as a super featherweight (130 lbs).
Hovhannes is currently [...]

2010 June – Fight Result Summary

June 2010 (9 Wins 4 Losses 2 Draws) 60% Win

HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan’s Win Taken Away

In an unfortunate turn of events, HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan’s TKO victory over Andres Martinez has been overturned and the fight is now deemed a draw because the fight’s governing body has determined that the cut which caused the fight to be stopped was a result of a head but as opposed to a punch.
Vardan’s management [...]

HyeFighter Gegard Mousasi vs. Jake O’Brien completes DREAM.15 light-heavyweight grand prix

HyeFighter Gegard Mousasi (28-3-1 MMA, 6-0 DREAM) and Jake O’Brien (13-3 MMA, 0-0 DREAM) have verbally agreed to meet at DREAM.15 in the promotion’s scaled-down light-heavyweight grand prix.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) confirmed the fight Monday morning from sources close to the event, who said that while contracts have not been signed, the bout is expected to be [...]

HYEFIGHTER of the month: June 2010 Araik Margarian

With an incredible KO win in RECORD time of 11 seconds in the 1st round at 100% Fights in Paris France, Araik Margarian has been selected the HyeFighter of the Month for June 2010.

HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan TKO’s Andres Martinez

HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan wins his battle against Andres Marinez in Spain via a first round TKO due to stoppage form a cut.

HyeFighter Armen Petrosyan Loses to Pique on Point in Italy

HyeFighter Armen Petrosyan loses to Marco “The Sniper” Pique at The Shock Muay Thai fight promotions in Palermo Italy.  The match was a very closely contended and both fighters give it their all.  But, at the end, more points were awarded to Pique as he was declared the winner of the fight.

HyeFighter Abraham vs Froch MAY Take Place in Montreal on September 18

It looks like both the Abraham and Froch camps are still tussling over where the next phase of Showtime’s Super Six tournament will take place. News sources in London as saying the bout is “likely” to take place September 18th in Montreal. However as reported by fightnews.com, the Abraham camp says neither Montreal nor September [...]

HyeFighter Gor Harutunian’s loss changed to a DRAW

HyeFighter Gor Harutunian loss to David Baron at the 100%-Fight promotion in France on June 19th was such a horrible decision that it has been over turned and declared a draw.
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HyeFighter Araik Margarian Wins in 11 Seconds

It did not take long for HyeFighter Araik Margarian to secure a win on Saturday night at the 100% Fight promotion in Aubervilliers, France on June 19th.
Araik needed only 11 SECONDS to knock out his opponent Walid Seghir with a kick to the head.

HyeFighter Gor Harutunian Loses A Very Close Decision

HyeFighter Gor Harutunian loses a very close decision to David Baron at the 100%-Fight promotion in France.

HyeFighter Karen Darabedyan Can’t Get the Win at WEC 49

HyeFighter Karen Darabedyan was caught with an armbar from William Kerr at WEC 49 and forced to submit at the 1:20 mark of round 1.
The play by play of the fight is below:
Darabedyan and Kerr clinch up after a brief exchange. Darabedyan gets the takedown but is in trouble when Kerr uses the cage to [...]

HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan in K1 Action

HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan will be in K1 action against Andres Martinez on Saturday June 26, 2010 in Spain.

HyeFighters Win At the Palladium

HyeFighters Roman Mitichyan and Artur Bernetsyan came away with hard fought wins at the Hollywood Palladium on Saturday night June 12th, 2010.
HyeFighter Lightweight Art Bernetsyan (3-0) won a four round unanimous decision over wild-swinging Ramon Flores (3-7-1, 1 KO). Although Flores landed the occasional wild hook or cross, the more-polished Bernetsyan controlled the action. All [...]

HyeFighters Bernetsyan & Mitichyan Make Weight

HyeFighters ROman Mitichyan and Artur Benretsyan make weight for their MMA and Boxing bouts on Saturday at eh Hollywood Palladium.
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor Roman “The Emperor” Mitichyan and rookie boxer Artur “The Punisher” Bernetsyan are set for action in respective bouts tonight at MEZ Sports’ “Pandemonium at the Palladium” at the Hollywood Palladium.
The card [...]

HyeFighter Gevor Off – HyeFighter Kentikian On for July 17

The fight between WBC interim middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik and two-time title challenger HyeFighter Khoren Gevor is off. They were slated to meet on July 17 in Schwerin, Germany. “We needed to have our plans finalized for our promotional partners and Sebastian Zbik hadn’t signed the fight contract on time,” said Universum General Manager Stefan [...]

Pride, Honor and an Undying Fighting Spirit: Armenians in MMA

by Sam Nassar Correspondent for the Bleacher Report:
With a past of oppression and sadness in their history, Armenians have shown themselves to have a fighter’s spirit that will not extinguish.
After near annihilation due to Genocide committed by the Ottoman Turks in 1915, the Armenian population had lost 1.5 million brothers and sisters in the slaughter.
With [...]

HyeFighter Vardan Mnatsakanyan Highlight Video

HyeFighters Mitichyna & Bernetsyan on The Same Card

Saturday June 12, in the heart of Hollywood CA at the Hollywood Palladium another hybrid boxing and MMA card will feature HyeFighters Roman “The Emperor” Mitichyan and Artur “The Punisher” Bernetsyan in MMA and Boxing bouts respectively.
For tickets call: 877-598-8497 or online at livenation.com

HyeFighter Vanes Martirosyan Wins At Yankee Stadium

In an intriguing battle of undefeated jr. middleweights, WBO #3/WBC #6/WBA #8/IBF #8 HyeFighter Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17 KOs) won a ten round unanimous decision over WBA #9/WBC #12 “Mean” Joe Greene (22-1, 14 KOs). Martirosyan scored a knockdown in the final moments to punctuate a 96-93, 96-93, 98-91 win. Vanes retains his NABF and [...]

HyeFighter Papazian Gets His Redemption

HyeFighter Jarred Papazian’s last fight of 2009 ended in a draw against Ryan Bastianelli.  Six months later, Jared was given the opportunity for a rematch against Ryan, which he took with no hesitation.
Friday night, June 4th 2010, Jared walked into the cage at Chumash Casino and made sure the outcome of this rematch would not [...]

Hyefighters.com shines new light on combatants

Glendale’s Araz Araradian’s site has brought notice to Armenian fighters locally and beyond
Just as “Hye Fighter” literally means Armenian fighter, the multi-faceted brand that bears the name has become synonymous with the heartbeat of the Armenian combat sports scene.
When Glendale’s Araz Araradian started HyeFighters.com in 2007, the website’s sole mission was to grow awareness and [...]

HyeFighter ‘Nightmare’ leads off huge month of fights

SIX GLENDALE HYEFIGHTERS SET FOR JUNE BOUTS
Vanes “The Nightmare” Martirosyan will not only be squaring off with “Mean” Joe Greene in the biggest fight of his young career on Saturday night, but the Glendale boxer will also begin quite a stretch of local boxers and mixed martial artists taking to their respective rings and [...]