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Arsen Goulamirian retained his WBA cruiserweight title against mandatory challenger Aleksei Egorov by 12-round unanimous decision at La Palsestre in Le Cannet, France, The Ring reported on Saturday.

The French-based Armenian fighter, who was making his first ring appearance since December 2019, used his strong jab to dictate the early rounds.

Goulamirian, 35, had been due to face Egorov last December before testing positive whilst in Russia for Covid. That lead to the cancellation and then an extended delay.

The previously unbeaten Egorov, who hadn’t competed in 20-months, took some heavy blows in the middle rounds and held on in the later rounds to see out the fight.

It was no surprise when the scorecards were read out that Goulamirian was the winner, 117-111, 116-112 and 116-112.

Hopefully now Goulamirian (27-0, 18 knockouts) will be more active and add more depth to the cruiserweight division. Egorov (11-1, 7 KOs) showed enough to suggest he could come again.