Germans of Armenian Descent - German Armenians, Susianna Kentikian, Arthur Abraham, Ian Bremmer, Sergey Khachatryan, Rick Kavanian (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: German Armenians, Susianna Kentikian, Arthur Abraham, Ian Bremmer, Sergey Khachatryan, Rick Kavanian, Michel Ter-Pogossian, Michael Artin, Khoren Gevor, Armen Haghnazarian, Patrick Baboumian, David Azin, Roman Aramian. Excerpt: Susianna "Susi" Levonovna Kentikian (born Syuzanna Levonovna Kentikyan on September 11, 1987) is a German-Armenian professional boxer now residing in Germany. She was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, but she left the country with her family at the age of five because of the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Kentikian has lived in Hamburg since 1996 and began boxing when she was twelve years old. Following a successful amateur career, she turned professional in 2005 when she signed with the Hamburg boxing promoter Spotlight Boxing. Kentikian won her first world championship fight in February 2007, and she is the current World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Organization (WBO) and Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) world flyweight champion. Kentikian is undefeated, having won 16 of her 26 professional fights by knockout. The German television station ZDF broadcasts her fights since July 2009. She had previously headlined fight cards for the television station ProSieben from 2007 to 2009. Kentikian has gained minor celebrity status in Germany, and she hopes to reach a popularity similar to that of the retired German female boxing star Regina Halmich. Susianna Kentikian was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, the daughter of veterinary doctor Levon Kentikian and his wife Makruhi. At the age of five, she left Armenia with her parents and her nine-year-old brother, Mikael, because her father was called up to serve in the military during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. In 1992, the family first moved to Berlin, Germany, and stay... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10510304