Dylan Hernandez: Boxing misses an opportunity for a knockout on marquee day
by Dylan Hernandez, Los Angeles Times
May 03, 2018
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES_The highest-profile fight of Vanes Martirosyan's 13-year professional boxing career materialized not because of a victory over another ranked opponent, but because of a failed drug test.
Not his. Canelo Alvarez's.
Only last month, Martirosyan was waiting for a fight, any fight, as the politics and business practices of the sport had conspired to sideline the Glendale-based boxer against his will for nearly two years. Alvarez's suspension presented Martirosyan with a chance of a lifetime, to be a last-minute replacement for a showdown
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