Artur Grigorian
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| Real name | Artur Grigoryan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | King Artur | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Lightweight | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 1⁄2 in (1.71 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Reach | 69 in (175 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Soviet Uzbek Armenian |
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20 October 1967 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 39 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Draws | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| No contests | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Artur Grigorian (born Artur Grigoryan; Armenian: Արթուր Գրիգորյան; born 20 October 1967) is an Armenian-Uzbek professional boxer.
Grigorian is a former WBO Lightweight Champion. He retained his lightweight belt for a record of 17 times (surpassing Roberto Duran's record of 12) and held his belt for seven years, six months and twenty days; nearly as long as record holder Benny Leonard held his lightweight title (7 years, 8 months).
Artur Grigorian was born on 20 October 1967 in Soviet Tashkent, Uzbek SSR to an Armenian family from Nagorno-Karabakh. He has a brother and sister.
Grigorian began boxing at the age of 11. He defeated Shane Mosley and won a gold medal at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle City. Grigorian won a silver medal at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships and competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Artur had a final amateur record of 361-23.
Trained by Fritz Sdunek, Grigorian began his professional career in 1994 and won eight consecutive bouts. On 23 July 1994, Grigorian defeated Turkish boxer Senturk Ozdemir by a fifth-round technical knockout and won the vacant German International Lightweight title.
On 1 April 1995, Grigorian defeated Antonio Strabello and became the WBO Inter-Continental Champion. After six non-title bouts and one title defense, Artur, with a perfect 19-0 record, became eligible to fight for the WBO Lightweight Championship world title. The title had recently been vacated by Oscar De La Hoya after he moved up to the light welterweight division.
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