Career Simonyan lost via fifth round technical knockout. He later retired with a record of 15-3-2 (7 KO).
Achievements Simonyan won a silver medal at the 1998 European Amateur Boxing Championships in the featherweight division and a bronze medal at the 1998 Boxing World Cup in the featherweight division. Simonyan amassed a record of 13-0-1 (7 KO) from 2000 to 2003 and won the USBA Super Bantamweight title. He then won an IBF Super Bantamweight Title Eliminator and challenged Israel Vázquez for the IBF Super Bantamweight Championship.