Martirosyan manages to get past Greene

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    It wasn't pretty, but Vanes Martirosyan got the job done, outpointing Queens' Joe Greene in a sloppy junior middleweight fight.

    The fight Saturday night was the co-feature on the Yuri Foreman-Miguel Cotto undercard at Yankee Stadium and didn't exactly rev up the crowd for the main event.

    The fighters started slowly, feeling each other out, and never got rolling.

    When Martirosyan, a 2004 U.S. Olympian from Glendale, Calif., was announced as the victor -- winning 98-91 and 96-93 (twice) -- the crowd was booing.

    "I thought he would press me more than he did," said Martirosyan, 24. "I thought he would come forward and he didn't. It didn't seem like he wanted to fight. I'm still improving and getting better all the time."

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