This past Saturday was a busy day though out that really didn't scream about it's self like some other days may have done in recent times.
Pattaya, Thailand It was in Thailand that we got the highest profile Asian show of the day and it was a strangely interesting showing with the return to the ring of a former champion and the continued development of a very promising prospect. The prospect in question was the unbeaten Petchmanee Kokietgym (6-0, 1) who managed to take a 6 round decision over busy Filipino fighter Richie Behec (2-2-1, 1). Behec, fighting just weeks after his loss to Samartlek Kokietgym, really is being ultra-active at the moment and has already squished 4 fights in to the year, essentially fighting every 11 days! Whilst Behec has been ultra-busy the same cannot be said of former WBA Super Flyweight world champion Tepparith Kokietgym (27-3, 16) who over-came Frenchman Joaquim Mahe (8-2, 4) to end a 51 week break from the ring. Tepparith, who was last seen in action back in February 2014, looked over weight and as if he was out of shape though still had the skills needed to over-come his French opponent. Amazingly this was just Tepparith's 6th bout since he lost his world title in December 2012 to Kohei Kono. A third bout on this show saw Angelito Merin (8-5-3, 2) take an opening round KO over the debuting Yongyut Suttason (0-1). Sanaa, Yemen Although the country of Yemen appears to be at war with it's self that hasn't put a freeze on the in ring action and local fans managed to get some action on Friday. In the main event fans saw the unbeaten Hani Ansi (18-0-1, 16) continue his sensational run of results as he scored an opening round blow out of the over-matched Omar Awdan (11-3, 5). The peculiar Ansi took control from the opening bell and just thoroughly dominated Awdan who was down 3 times in less than 80 seconds. We now expect Ansi to fight against Ali Raymi in March. Ansi wasn't the only fighter to score an early victory and the unbeaten Omar Moxamad (4-0, 3) needed just 34 seconds to beat the debuting Ali Saif (0-1). It also took less than a round for Asam Dolbhante (6-1, 3) to take care of his debuting foe, Rashed Haymi (0-1). The remaining bouts on this card both went the distance. One of those saw Redman Ibsi (2-1) take a shut out over the more experienced Yasin Abdulkhalik (7-8, 3) whilst the other saw Taha Kawkabani (4-3, 1) score a minor upset with a win over Ali Salem (12-6, 3) Sinaloa, Mexico In Mexico we saw the tough Adones Aguelo (23-11-2, 15) suffer just the second stoppage loss of his career as the brilliant Adrian Estrella (21-0, 19) took him out in the 10th round of their bout. It now seems likely that Estrella will be moved towards a bout with WBC Super Featherweight champion Takashi Miura in what would be a genuinely mouth watering encounter between heavy handed and exciting fighters. New York, USA In New York we saw some controversy as Derric Rossey (30-9, 14) took a close decision over previously unbeaten Heavyweight hopeful Akhror Muralimov (16-1, 13). The bout was close but the rotund Muralimov only has himself to blame for the loss as he came in at a disgustingly out of shape at a ridiculous 256½lbs.
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This past Friday saw a number of Asian's in action with some of them being men on the very of possible world title fights.
Nonthanburi, Thailand The only Asian show of the day came from Thailand where Channel 7 televised a number of fights featuring a variety of promising and established talent. Sadly the show also seems to have been only partially included in the boxrec.com database. The most notable fighter on the card was the highly tanked Paipharob Kokietgym (28-0, 21) who scored a 3rd round TKO over Filipino foe Lionel Legada (12-8-1, 5). Legada had shown something in the opening round but was being broken down as the fight progressed and Paipharob went through the gears. Unfortunately for Legada that resulted in him taking some monstrous shots in the 3rd that forced the referee to call a halt. For Paipharob this was a defense of the WBO Oriental Light Flyweight title and he'll continue to eye up a potential world title bout later in the year. Another semi-notable name on this show was South Korea's Myung-goo Yuh (25-4-1, 20) who completely destroyed Filipino Joan Imperial (11-6-6, 6) in just 2 rounds. Yuh, defending the interim WBO Asia Pacific title at 108lbs, was aggressive from the off and seemed to land body shots at will on Imperial who was down a number of times before the referee finally called a halt to the bout. Sadly some of the the results aren't on boxrec at the time of writing. One of those saw the unbeaten Norasing Kokietgym (14-0-1, 10) scoring a decision win over an unknown opponent, believed to be a Filipino. Another of the unlisted results saw the unbeaten Manachai Banchamek (2-0, 2) beat down a very stubborn and tough opponent who is again unknown at the time of writing. Manachai was in control from the opening round though his opponent showed real grit and determination to last as long as he did in what was a real “ass whooping” for the better part of 4 rounds. Other bouts on this show saw Thai based Indian Gurlal Redbluegym (4-0, 4) score an opening round blow out over Natsaran Suksomsri (0-1) whilst female fighter Naome Tacda (3-0, 3) blew out Orawan Kiengkaew (0-1), also in the opening round *Note-Norasing's opponent is now listed on boxrec as Chapito Rivera (0-1) New South Wales, Australian In New South Wales fans got the chance to see title action as Filipino fighter Rey Las Pinas (19-10-5, 11) attempted to claim the IBO Oceania Featherweight title and score a major win over the world ranked Joel Brunker (28-1, 16). Sadly for Pinas it wasn't to be his day and he was destroyed in just 2 rounds by the exciting Brunker, who was fighting for the first time since he was stopped himself by Lee Selby. Western Australia, Australia Aussies had the chance to see more Asian fighters in action as a number of Asian fighters were in action in Perth. Sadly they again were on the losing end. The quickest to be defeated was Indonesian journeyman Anshori Anhar Pitulay (8-15-2, 6), who was stopped in a round by the once beaten Nathaniel May (9-1, 5). Whilst Pitulay was stopped quickly he wasn't the only Asian stopped early doors and Filipino fighter Aswin Cabuy (14-51-4, 7) didn't last much longer in his bout with the unbeaten Wes Capper (9-0, 7). Things were slightly better for Thailand's Pramool Boonpok (1-11-1) who lasted until the 4th round against Jamie Weetch (4-2, 3). Pramool was one of two Thai's on this show and his compatriot, Angor Onesongchaigym (7-2, 4) was also stopped in the 4th round as Louisa Hawton (4-0, 2) notched her most notable win. Impressively Hawson's victory over Angor took 5 rounds less than Momo Koseki did last year and a bout between Hawton and Koseki may become something interesting down the line. Tokyo, Japan The Dangan series of shows had their second show this week as we had a relatively underwhelming card saved by the star power of the main event fighter and of a man retiring a somewhat legendary career on the Japanese domestic scene. The retiree was former 5-weight Japanese national champion Tadashi Yuba who took part in his retirement ceremony, which was certainly an emotional event. Tadashi had a short public sparring session with Japanese and OPBF Middleweight champion Akio Shibata before taking to the microphone and making an emotional speech abut how his career had ended but his life in boxing hadn't. The speech mentioned that Yuba will now focus on opening a gym to give back to the sport which has been such a big part of his life. As well as Yuba's retirement ceremony the show also featured 8 fights across a variety of levels. At the lowest level was a 4 rounder which saw Shogo Kitsukawa (2-0, 2) score a final round stoppage against Shota Irei (1-2, 1). Stepping up slightly there was a trio of 5 round bouts. The most competitive of those, at least in terms of result, was a 5 round majority draw between Salsa Iwabuchi (4-4-1, 3) and Shogo Sumitomo (5-7-1, 4) in what was a really well matched bout. Another well matched 5 rounder saw Manato Homna (8-3, 4) just over-come Tsubasa Matsudo (4-10-4, 1) in a razor thin contest. The remaining 5 round contest saw Ryosuke Takami (6-1, 5) show off his power as he flattened Shintaro Nakamura (5-4-1, 2) in the 3rd round. In a female bout fans saw Yunoka Furukawa (5-1-2, 3) inflict the loss loss on Aiko Yamagishi (4-1-1, 2), with a 4th round stoppage in a scheduled 6 rounder. The only other 6 rounder saw Kazuyuki Nakayama (5-4-2, 1) just edge his way past Naoto Takanashi (4-9-2, 3) with a 6 round majority decision. On the chief support bout here saw Kenta Nakagawa (9-2, 7) score a 3rd round TKO over domestic journeyman Tahashi Nishiura (8-13-1, 1), who has now been stopped 8 times in just 22 bouts. In the main bout of the card fans saw former Japanese champion Shinya Iwabuchi (24-5, 20) finally finish off Venezuelan visitor Luis Araguayan (11-8, 6). Araguayan proved to be much better than his record indicated and at times he made Iwabuchi look silly due to his fantastic movement. In the end however Iwabuchi was simply too heavy handed as he managed to stop his visiting foe in the 7th round. (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp) Tokyo, Japan We've not seen much action in Japan this year but things are starting to get going and today we had the first taste of domestic title action as the Champion Carnival kicked off, we also had a world fighter in action and several promising fighters all looking to make a name for themselves. The show began with a 4 rounder which saw the debuting Kentaro Omori (1-0, 1) introduce himself to the professional boxing world with a 70 second stoppage win against the win-less Hirako Saito (0-2). This was one of a number of lower tier bouts which also included another opening round blow out as Yutaka Ekawa (6-3-1, 3) unexpectedly blasted out Ryosuke Suzuki (4-3) in an impressive 23 seconds in a bout scheduled for 5 rounds. Ekawa's win came in one of 2 bouts set for 5 with the other resulting in a disappointing technical draw between Hidetoshi Ueki (4-9-2) and Tomoyuki Kaneko (7-4-1, 4) after a headclash in the second round forced this bout to be abandoned. In a 6 round bout we saw the talented, and unbeaten, Daishi Nagata (2-0-1, 1) score his first stoppage win as he took out the more experienced Ryoji Miyagi (7-6-1, 4) in the 3rd round. Although Nagata does have a “mark” on his record he is incredibly talented and we'd tip him to go far on the domestic scene, just like Takeshi Inoue who gave him that mark on debut. The chief support bouts both looked interesting on paper. One of those saw world ranked Super Flyweight Go Onaga (23-2-2, 16) take a clear decision over former “world” title challenger Breilor Teran (13-11-1, 6) in what amounted to a show case of sorts for Onaga, a member of the Ohashi stable. The other saw the heavy handed Yusuke Suzuki (6-1, 4) enhance his fast growing reputation as he blasted away Akinori Hoshino (11-9-1, 8) in the 6th round of their scheduled 8. The ending here saw Hoshino crashing to the canvas an unable to beat the 10 count, though Suzuki was given a good test before the finish. The headline bout, and one of the first really notable bouts this year in Japan, saw Rikki Naito (12-0, 5) successfully retain his Japanese Super Featherweight title as he narrowly over-came Masayuki Ito (16-1-1, 7) in a highly competitive bout that ended with Naito taking a narrow majority decision. The bout really was one of those where no one felt they lost and whilst Ito may have a “1” on his record he'll still feel unbeaten. Naito, a very talented fighter managed to record the third defence of his title though he'll likely not rush up to fighting at the world level considering how hard he was pushed here. We really hope we'll see a rematch of this one somewhere down the line and with both men being really young it's pretty likely that we will see them crossing paths again, one day. (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp) Jakarta, Indonesia
This past Sunday saw TVRI once again televise some local action from Indonesia and although we know the record of the men is in debate we also know that local fans got a bit of a treat. The one televised bout saw John Ruba (3-1, 1)* battle against Benny Tamaela (2-1, 1) in a very competitive 12 round bout that saw Ruba come out on top with a split decision win. According to our friend Mikko the bout was a good one with several shifts in momentum. The bout seemed to see Tamaela taking the early lead before tiring in the second half. Tamaela then got his second wind before being dropped in the penultimate round. This knockdown seemed to be the deciding factor and helped Ruba claim the Indonesian (ATI) Welterweight title, which was previously vacant. *Due to not knowing the real records of either man we have gone for the boxrec records for now, however we are certain that they are incomplete. It's been something like 5 weeks since the year began but it seems, at least, that boxing is starting to come alive in Asia. That was highlighted this past Saturday with a pair of notable shows. Davao del Sur, Philippines The most significant of the two shows was in the Philippines as ALA put on their first big show of the year which featured several notable fighters involved with the biggest Filipino promoter. One of those major Filipino fighters was the world ranked Arthur Villanueva (27-0, 14) who put on a showcase performance against former WBO Flyweight champion Julio Cesar Miranda (28-12-2, 29). Villanueva had been less than impressive in his previous two bouts but really shone here as he almost shut out the very dangerous Miranda of 10 rounds. Given that Villanueva has struggled recently it could well be that he felt the pressure was on to perform here and that he knew a potential world title fight was on the line coming into this bout. Another fighter who performed was Light Welterweight hopeful Jason Pagara (35-2, 22) who decimated Mexican for Cesar Chavez (24-8, 12) in just 2 rounds. Chavez was bounced off the canvas several times before being stopped at the 1:56 mark of the second round. For Pagara this was the statement performance he needed to move towards his own big fight. The remaining headline bout from this show was a bit more disappointing as Super Bantamweight hopeful Genesis Servania (26-0, 11) took a wide but unspectacular decision win over Juan Luis Hernandez (17-4-1, 9), who seemed happier to survive than try to win. The crowd seemed to be disappointed by the end of this but know that Servania can produce so much better than they saw in this bout. As well as the trio of main bouts that card also featured several very exciting prospects on the under-card. The most notable of those was Featherweight hopeful Mark Magsayo (10-0, 8) who stopped Thailand's Sukkasaem Kietyongyuth (13-4, 8) in 5 rounds. This was an especially notable result considering it took the world ranked Ik Yang 8 rounds to stop Sukkasem late last year. Another unbeaten prospect scoring an early win was Arjan Canillas (10-0-2, 8) who blew away Stevi Ongen Ferdinandus (15-8-1, 8) in 4 rounds whilst Brian Lobetania (10-0-3, 8) took less than 2 rounds to see off Armando Yee (2-7-3, 1). Just a couple of bouts on this under card went the distance. One of those saw the heavy handed Vic Saludar (9-1, 7) going the distance for the second time as he took an 8 round decision over Lester John Pronco (9-9-1, 6). The other saw Arnold Garde (4-3-2, 1) drop Rafael Sueno (3-2, 3) en route to a 6 round decision win. Tokyo, Japan Whilst the Philippines had contenders in action Japan had a former Linear champion in action, albeit one who is really rebuilding his career after a serious injury. That former world champion was former WBC and linear Flyweight champion Toshiyuki Igarashi (20-2-1, 11) who is now campaigning at Super Flyweight. Igarashi struggled somewhat in his bout as he over-came under-rated Efrain Perez (17-6, 12), who also gave Mark Anthony Geraldo a tough bout recently, with a 10th round technical decision. Igarashi was fighting for just the second time following major surgery and seem to be a long way from title contention still. In the chief support bout we saw a genuine upset as Yuto Shimizu (9-2-2, 3) scored a very unexpected stoppage win over the usually tough Takehiro Shimokawara (19-10-3, 6). Shimokawara retired at the end of the 7th round with a cut eye and looked to be on his way to another round of hurt had he continued here. Shimizu's win was his 6th in a row and we'd not be shocked to see him in the running for a title bout of some type later this year. Another stoppage in a key support bout saw Kenichi Ogawa (14-1, 12) score a 1-punch KO against Kazuya Nakano (8-4, 7) in the 3rd round of their bout. The referee waved this one off as Nakano was down without counting. In a competitive 6 rounder Heisuke Ono (6-2-2, 5) took a majority decision over Tatsuya Mukai (5-4-2, 1). The cards here were a bit all over the place with one judge having the bout level whilst another had it a shut out. The only other decision on this card came in one of 3 all debutant bouts as Akira Tsutsumi (1-0) narrowly beat Takuma Izumi (0-1). The remaining 4 bouts on this card all ended early with the longest lasting just a round and a half. That saw the unbeaten Ryota Toyoshima (1-0-1, 1) score his first win as he stopped Makoto Takahashi (1-8-1, 1) at 1:28 of round 2. The quickest of the remaining bouts lasted just 52 seconds as Ryo Matsubara (2-1, 2) blew away Yugo Ueda (3-2, 2). The other opening round blows out saw Hayate Kaji (1-0, 1) see off Tomonari Ohira (0-1) whilst Daiki Funayama (1-0, 1) stopped Seiji Nakazawa (0-1). (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp) Bangkok, Thailand For the second day running it was Thai fans who were getting televised action as Channel 7 did back-to-back televised cards. Today however there was no world title on the line though there was still some pretty notable action. The main action came in a PABA Welterweight title fight that saw defending champion Teerachai Kratingdaenggym (29-0, 23) make relatively light work of South African challenger Nthuthuko Memela (11-2-2, 7). Teerachai did as he wished with his taller opponent and stopped him in round 4. Teerachai's win wasn't the only one for a reigning PABA champion as the unbeaten Nop Kratingdaenggym (12-0, 1)* scored a 6 round decision over Indonesian visitor Boido Simanjuntak (18-27-1, 7) in a non title fight. The light hitting Nop did brilliant at times though his lack of power is still something we consider an issue, despite his skills which are more varies than most Thai's. A former world champion was also on this card picking up a relatively simple win. That former champion was the highly experienced Kwanthai Sithmorseng (49-3, 25) who made light work of the simply hopeless Ponidi (1-13-1) with a 2nd round KO. In a low level bout on this under-card Dennapa Kiatniwat (3-0, 1) took a 6 round decision over Yodpichai Sor Visetkit (1-2) *Note boxrec don't recognise Nop Kratingdaenggym's win against Skak Max (Image courtesy of thairec.com) Nakhon Sawan, Thailand This year has certainly been a very slow one to get going but it seems like we now have life in the world of boxing and today we saw the first world title bout in Asia for 2015. We also saw a couple of youth title bouts and a couple of other contests. The show, which was televised on Thai channel 7, began with one of the WBC Youth title fights as WBC Youth Minimumweight champion Chanachai CP Freshmart (2-0, 1) successfully defended his title. Chanachai was battling against the more experienced Wilber Andogan (10-18-4, 4) and although Chanchai did show signs of inexperience he thoroughly dominated Andogan who did very well to survive the scheduled 10 round distance. Whilst this was the first we'd managed to see Chachai in action he did look impressive and we're going to look forward to see him again in the future as he looked a very aggressive and exciting young fighter. Following the starter we then got the main event bout which was another bout at Minimumweight as WBC world champion Wanheng Menayothin (37-0, 12) made the first defense of his title. Wanehng, who won the title last year when he stopped Oswaldo Novoa, was taking on unknown Filipino challenger Jeffrey Galero (11-1, 5) and a it seemed in the early rounds as if Wanheng was trying to figure out his Filipino opponent who had success in the opening rounds with his smart movement and intelligent boxing. Sadly for Galero he was then put under 10 rounds of increasingly stiff pressure and although he survived the pressure he was the clear loser come the final bell. In the show's third bout we again saw title against as the brilliant Kongputorn CPFreshmart (6-0, 4)* retained his WBC Youth Flyweight title with a brutal beating of the very badly over-matched Zhang Fang Yon (0-2). Yon showed some bravery early on but took a pounding before being saved in round 3 by the referee. By the end Yon was bleeding from various cuts, was having his head snapped back and rocked repeatedly and the bout was becoming a show case for the very talented Kongputorn who we hope to see matched a little harder in the next few months. After the title bouts fans then had the chance to see a former world title challenger in action as Panomroonglek Kaiyanghadaogym (43-2, 25), best known for his loss in 2013 to Koki Kameda, dismantled a horribly over-matched Indonesian foe, believed to be Edo Anggoro (7-3), in 3 rounds. The match was a farcical mismatch in what Anggoro did little other than show his guts as he picked himself of the canvas repeatedly. We're unsure if Angoro was the opponent though if it was it seems his record is massively incomplete. As the broadcast went off air there was still a fight going on involving Noknoi Sitthiprasert (52-4, 30) who managed to over-come the win-less Mongkol Patanakan Gym (0-8), who had been stopped in 6 of his previous 7 defeats. California, USA In the US the unbeaten Ruslan Madiev (3-0, 1) recorded his first stoppage as he took 102 seconds to defeat Cesar Martinez (4-5-2, 1) *Boxrec still fail to recognise Kongputorn's debut win over Veeradej Manoprungroj, which can be seen here (Image courtesy of Thairec.com) Laguna, Philippines
Sadly we're sometimes later with results and the eagle eyed among you my have noticed that we skipped the February 3rd show from the Philippines. This wasn't deliberate it was however due to the fact we weren't given the full results from the show, something we now have. The show began with 4 rounders. Only one of those was a blow out as Robert Onggocan (1-0, 1) made light work of Roberto Mendano (0-4), who was stopped inside a round. There was wide and clear decision as well as the blow out, this saw Carleans Rivas (4-2-3) shut out Christine Latube (1-5-2). In more competitive action March Ray Taday (1-1) narrowly squeaked past the debuting Lawrence Legrada (0-1). Another highly competitive bout saw Venson Delopere (0-0-2) behind held to his second draw as the debuting Jimmy Borbon (0-0-1) held him to a unanimous draw. In the sole 6 rounder we again had competitive action as Jerome Clavite (3-0-1, 1) only just saw off journeyman Dodoy Alapormina (1-24 -1) with a close majority decision. The show featured a pair of 8 rounders used to support the main event. One of those was over in a flash as the heavy handed Jon Jon Estrada (7-1-1, 6) made light work of Jomar Borbon (4-20-2, 2) in just 106 seconds. The other was slightly more competitive as Marlon Arcilla (7-2, 1) took a clear decision over Roy Lagrada (3-9-1, 3). In the main event Lester Abutan (7-2-3, 4) claim the LuzProBA Minimumweight title as he stopped Bonjun Loperez (9-3-1, 5) in the 10th and final round. Jakarta, Indonesia
The only professional action this past Sunday took place in Jakarta where fans had the chance to see Boy Tanto (9-16, 1) out point Melianus Mirin (4-2, 2) in a 12 round bout. Sadly details of this bout are scarce at the moment though we've fingers crossed in the hope of getting footage from the contest soon. |
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