Despite a fear of flying, the Glendale featherweight is glad to be Down Under, healthy and fighting Joshua Culibao on Saturday in Perth.
Every time Melsik Baghdasaryan goes to earn a paycheck, someone is trying to knock him out.
“I’m really scared traveling, like flying. I mean really, really scared,” Baghdasaryan said in a recent interview. “I’m not even going like flying to Vegas.” Baghdasaryan, 31, has seemingly endured worse of late. He was forced to withdraw from a fight in April because of an MCL sprain suffered while training jiu-jitsu. Six months later, he was sidelined for another bout after breaking his hand, which came as a surprise to everyone.
Edmond Tarverdyan, who trains Baghdasaryan at Glendale Fighting Club, said the difficulty was getting his fighter to settle down. So badly did Baghdasaryan want to fight that he agreed to a fight more than 9,000 miles away. Not to mention Tarverdyan felt bad after having to shelve his injured fighter twice just weeks before his fights last year.
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