Vanes Martirosyan is next in line for a junior middleweight title shot. The WBO decided at their annual meeting that champion Sergiy Dzinzurik will face the Armenian fighter due to inactivity. The match up came about by default. Dzinzurik is suppose to face the number #1 ranked WBO contender, which at this point in time is Paul Williams. That match up is highly unlikely due to Williams current rubber match with Sergio Martinez. The next person in line would be Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., but that is unlikely as well as Chavez Jr. is set to face Alfonso Gomez the beginning of December. That forces #3 contender Vanes Martirosyan as Dzinzurik’s next opponent.
“Everybody knows the story of when I busted him up in sparring. Imagine what his face will look like after I pound on it without headgear on!,” an excited Martirosyan recently said from his home base of Glendale, CA.
Martirosyan isn’t that confident that Dzinzurik will actually face him and thinks the Ukrainian may prefer to vacate his belt rather than endure a beat down. “I am tired of these so called champs ducking me. They can’t duck me forever. I will either beat the title out of Dzinzurik or he can run away and vacate it. Either way the title will be mine.”
