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“I am someone who comes in, who breaks, who breaks”: Arsen Goulamirian, the only French world boxing champion, returns to the fight

2024-03-29T20:55:15.202Z

Highlights: Arsen Goulamirian, the only French world boxing champion, returns to the fight. He will defend his title on March 30 in Los Angeles. Beneath his 185 centimeters, his 90 kg, his haughty and massive bearing and his gaze as hard as he is determined, there is in fact “ a chocolate teddy bear ”, to use the words of Nadia Benabdelouahed, his press officer. “He looks tough on the outside, but he is very tender on the inside. He is very human.”


PORTRAIT – While he will defend his title on March 30 in Los Angeles, the world champion hides, beneath an intimidating physique, a more complex personality. And touching.


If one day you come across Arsen Goulamirian, always remember that you should never trust appearances. Beneath his 185 centimeters, his 90 kg, his haughty and massive bearing and his gaze as hard as he is determined, there is in fact

a chocolate teddy bear

”,

to use the words of Nadia Benabdelouahed, his press officer.

He looks tough on the outside, but he is very tender on the inside. He is very human. At the beginning, when he came to get me, I had a certain image of him and I told him that it wasn't possible, that he was too crazy. As a fighter, he is very violent, he is a little wild. But, in life, he is very gentle, altruistic, he likes to share with young people.

»

Quite the opposite, therefore, of a certain “Feroz”, his nickname in the ring inherited from a training course in Cuba where he had sent a sparring partner to the mat.

Abel

(Sanchez, his mentor and trainer, Editor’s note)

told me that this nickname suited me perfectly…

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Source: lefigaro

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