{"id":10980,"date":"2018-02-19T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2018-02-19T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:15:18","slug":"banner-promotions-and-thompson-boxing-sign-undefeated-lightweight-zhora-hamazaryan-to-a-co-promotional-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=10980","title":{"rendered":"Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing Sign Undefeated Lightweight Zhora Hamazaryan to a Co-Promotional Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamazaryan Wins American Debut by Unanimous Decision this Past Friday Night in Ontario, California<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><\/h6>\n

PHILADELPHIA, PENN.\/ORANGE, Calif. (Feb. 19, 2018) – Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing Promotions are pleased to announce the signing of undefeated lightweight prospect Zhora Hamazaryan to a co-promotional contract.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hamazaryan, 22 years-old of Gyumri, Armenia, improved to 9-0 with 6 knockouts as he won his American debut this past Friday night when he scored a 4-round unanimous decision over previously undefeated Sergio Ramirez in Ontario, California.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamazaryan is a three year-professional who had his previous eight victories in Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the bout against Ramirez, Hamazaryan dropped his opponent with a hard left hook in the second round.\u00a0 Hamazaryan was very impressive as he displayed heavy hands and had a crowd pleasing style.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m pleased with the win,” Hamazaryan said. “He was a bit awkward, but it wasn’t enough to throw me off what I wanted to do.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Zhora had a terrific performance, and I am very pleased with his fight,” said Banner Promotions President, Artie Pelullo.<\/span><\/p>\n

“He has only been in the United States for a couple weeks, and he will have a full camp here for his next fight, so I expect that he will be even better in his next bout.\u00a0 W<\/span>e feel that at<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a022 years old, he has a bright future, and I look forward to his watching his deve<\/span>lopment.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Zhora made his U.S. debut a memorable one,” said Ken Thompson, President of Thompson Boxing. “He fought a very awkward fighter and was able to dominate him from\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the start. We like that he comes from an extensive amateur background and look forward to developing him further.”<\/span><\/p>\n

For regular updates on our fighters, events, and promotions, please like the\u00a0Banner Promotions Facebook Page<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0Instagram<\/span><\/a> and Twitter<\/span><\/a> @BannerBoxing<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hamazaryan Wins American Debut by Unanimous Decision this Past Friday Night in Ontario, California FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA, PENN.\/ORANGE, Calif. (Feb. 19, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,225,8],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-10980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fights","category-news","tag-zhora-hamazaryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10987,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/10987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}