Misha Aloyan: World Amateur Titles and Professional Career
Mikhail “Misha” Aloyan is an Armenian-born Russian boxer whose amateur achievements included two world flyweight championships and an Olympic bronze medal. His later professional career brought a WBO bantamweight title challenge against Zolani Tete. Aloyan was born in Bambakashat on August 23, 1988, and boxed from a southpaw stance.
Career and championship record
His amateur world titles came in Baku in 2011 and Almaty in 2013. He defeated Andrew Selby in the first of those finals and Jasurbek Latipov in the second. At the London Olympics in 2012, Aloyan lost his semifinal to Mongolia’s Tugstsogt Nyambayar and received a bronze medal.
At Rio 2016, he initially received silver after losing the flyweight final to Shakhobidin Zoirov. That result was subsequently disqualified following a positive test for tuaminoheptane, a prohibited stimulant. The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the loss of his Rio results and medal in June 2017. His London bronze was a separate result and remained intact.
Aloyan turned professional in May 2017, defeating Yader Cardoza over ten rounds. His subsequent results included victories over Marvin Solano, Hermogenes Castillo and Alexander Espinoza. These contests brought regional or secondary belts, distinct from the full WBO world championship he later challenged for.
On October 13, 2018, Tete defeated Aloyan by unanimous decision in the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight tournament. The loss means Aloyan’s professional career cannot be described as undefeated. He continued competing afterward, with later opponents including Ronal Batista and Oleksandr Hryshchuk.
In January 2022, Aloyan announced that his next appearance would be his farewell. His final recorded professional opponent was David Barreto, whom he defeated by majority decision that February. His career therefore includes distinct amateur and professional phases: world amateur gold, an Olympic bronze, a disqualified Rio result and an unsuccessful professional world-title challenge.
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