WBC Silver junior middleweight champion Vanes Martirosyan (32-0, 20 KO’s) retained his World Boxing Council title on Saturday, Feb 4 night, stopping his badly over-matched 41-year-old challenger Troy Lowry (28-12, 17 KO’s) in the 3rd round of a scheduled 10 round bout on the undercard of the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Marco Antonio Rubio bout at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

Martirosyan, 25, knocked the journeyman Lowry down twice in the fight, once in the 1st with a left to the midsection, and the final time in the 3rd with a chopping right to the head, to get a 3rd round TKO stoppage, Boxing News 24.com reported.