Rising lightweight competitor Frank Martin is expected to take on Artem Harutyunyan on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
FRANK MARTIN (17-0, 12 KOs) VS.
ARTEM HARUTYUNYAN (12-0, 7 KOs)
- Day: Saturday, July 15
- Time: 10pm ET / 7pm PT (main event after that)
- Where: International of Las Vegas
- television/stream: Showtime
- Assignment: Light weight (135 pounds)
- threatened: No main title
- the odds: Martin 10-1 favorite (multi-store average)
- Also on the card: Nonito Donaire vs Alexandro Santiago, bantamweight (for the vacant WBC title); Elvis Rodriguez vs Viktor Postol, junior weight class
- Guess: Martin KO 9
- Background: Martin is in the process of making his way into the top 135 pounder group. The talented 28-year-old from Indianapolis is about to have his biggest win yet, a decide on the previously undefeated Michel Rivera Last December in Las Vegas. He is ranked in the Top 7 by all four major sanctioning agencies, ranked 2nd by the WBA. Harutyunyan is a boxer from Germany who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics. However, Martin represents a significant step forward in the opposition of the 32-year-old. And Harutyunyan, who lives in Hamburg, has never fought outside his country. He last fought in June last year, when he easily overcame Humberto Galindo in Hamburg.
