2 Goossen Fighters on Olympic Card

Stablemates under trainer Joe Goossen will enter the ring in separate bouts Thursday night at the Olympic Auditorium.

Carlos Martinez, a former resident of Oxnard now living in Van Nuys and a member of the Mexican Olympic team in Atlanta, will make his professional debut against Marcial Canas (1-1-1) in a four-round super-welterweight bout.

Bantamweight Arnulfo Bravo (2-0) of San Pedro, who trains with Martinez at Goossen’s Van Nuys gym, will fight Joe Ramirez.

Martinez was defeated in the first round of the Olympics. A former pupil of trainer Eduardo Garcia at Oxnard’s La Colonia Youth Boxing Club, Martinez recently decided to join Goossen and is managed by Gabriel Ruelas.

“He was a good trainer,” Martinez said of Garcia. “I just thought it was time to move on. I wanted to be with Joe and the Ruelas brothers.”

Bravo won in his pro debut in July, then was disqualified in a bout last month in Las Vegas for landing a low blow, a charge he disputes.

“That hurt me to be disqualified because I’ve been training very hard,” Bravo said.

The main event is a 10-round heavyweight bout between Lionel Butler and Martin Foster.