Bangkok,Thailand
This past Thursday in Thailand saw a number of bouts with a trio of notable Thai fighters. Of the three Thai's in action the most significant at the moment is current WBC Minimumweight champion Wanheng Menayothin (39-0, 14) who scored a 4th round stoppage victory against Ardi Buyung (2-5). Wanheng, who is expected to return to the ring in about 6 weeks, did little more than stay busy with this bout as he moves towards a world title defence against Young Kil Bae. Another was former WBC Minimumweight champion Oleydong Sithsamerchai (57-1-1, 21) who made light work of the win-less Petchmai Sor Praithong (0-6), who was stopped in the 5th round. The third bout of note saw former WBA interim Flyweight championship Yodmongkol Vor Saengthep (36-3, 22) score a 3rd round KO win against Edo Anggoro (7-4), and claim a lower tier title with the win.
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Bangkok, Thailand
This past Tuesday saw a notable televised card form Thailand. It wasn't a big show but it did feature a world title bout, two promising unbeaten prospects and the fighter with longest active winning streak in the sport. The main event was the world title fight and saw the unbeaten Wanheng Menayothin (38-0, 13) retain his WBC Minimumweight title with a 9th round KO of over-matched Filipino challenger Jerry Tomogdan (17-6-3, 9). Tomogdan looked out of his depth almost from the off and was quickly finding himself being broken down by the pressure and accuracy of Wanheng who finally saw him off with a body shot to record the second defense of his title. We're now hoping to see the Thai fight Denver Cuello in a mandatory, though we may be left waiting there. The world title fight was one of 3 title bouts on the show. The most competitive was for the WBC Youth Minimumweight title and saw the unbeaten Chanachai CP Freshmart (4-0, 2) retain his title with a very competitive win against Filipino foe Lester Abutan (7-3-3, 4). Chanachai has impressed us every time we've seen him with his ultra-aggressive style which is a real handful but credit to Abutan for not wilting and trying to fight back in a memorable and exciting contest. The other title bout was a horrible mismatch as WBC Youth silver Bantamweight champion Petch Sor Chitpattana (31-0, 20) retained his title with a 2nd round KO of Filipino Jayar Estremos (10-11, 4). The bout was finished by a sickening body shot from Petch who has seemingly got eyes on WBC world champion Shinsuke Yamanaka. A fighter between Petch and Yamanaka would be too soon for the Thai, though it's good to see that he has got that type of ambition. The other bout on the show saw Noknoi Sitthiprasert* (55-4, 32) score his 54th straight win as he defeated Petchchumpol Sor Visetkit (5-6, 3) in the 4th round. Sadly we've yet to see Noknoi face an opponent with any real value and it's becoming a bit of a running joke that Noknoi is going to set records with out having faced a “live” opponent. *Noknoi's record misses at least 1 bout, a recent win over Donny Mabao, it may however miss a lot more with at least 5 other supposed wins missing from his record. 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) Bangkok, Thailand If we were to say that this past Thursday was a quiet day in Asian boxing we really wouldn't be bending the truth at all, despite the fact we had a world title bout and a bout featuring one of the most promising Thai prospects, both televised. The world title bout in question was a WBC Minimumweight title bout saw the unbeaten Wanheng Menayothin (36-0, 12) prove that his record wasn't a paper one and that he had genuine talent as he over-came Mexico's Oswaldo Novoa (14-5-1, 9) to claim the world title in a thrilling contest. The boat was Novoa's second defense, since upsetting Xiong Zhao Zhong in China earlier this year for the belt, and although he was fighting in Thailand he showed no intention of giving up the belt in a real "ding dong" of a contest. At least until round 9 when the conditions and Wanheng both got to him forcing him to remain on his stool at the end of the 9th round. If you like hard fought bouts with a lot of heavy shots then this one is for you. On the same card fans saw the very talented Kongputorn CPfreshmart (5-0, 4) score an early victory over a mismatched foe who was decimated with a body shot from hell. The bout wasn't competitive in the slightest and it really was all Kongputorn prior to the stoppage which was very painful looking. Sadly at the moment we don't have the name of Kongputorn's opponent. One other bout on this card saw Kongfah CP Freshmart (9-0, 4) take a decision over Filipino visitor Cris Alfante (10-4, 3) in a regional WBC title fight. Sadly for Alfante it saw him suffering a third successive loss this year following losses to Florante Condes and Knockout CP Freshmart. (*Note Kongputorn's boxrec.com record is very wrong and misses several fights of his sadly however we're not sure even our record of the supremely talented Thai is actually right.) Queensland, Australia Unfortunately it wasn't all fine and dandy in Australia for Thai's as Pramool Boonpok (1-8-1) lost for the 8th time in 10 fights. Boonpok was narrowly out pointed by the limited Will Parsons (4-2, 2) in a 4 round bout that appears to have judges scoring the bout all over the place. (Image courtesy of Thairec.com) A great week of action ended on Friday with a lot of Thai action including a Thai show and Thai's in Australia. Ayutthaya, Thailand The most notable action was in Thailand and televised on Channel 7. The main event from this card saw Thailand's very own Petch Sor Chitpattana (25-0, 16) given a very serious test by Filipino "Cinderella Man" Gerpaul Valero (17-15-3, 11). Valero, challenging for the WBC Youth Silver Bantamweight title, managed to drop Petch early in the contest and through 4 rounds he kept the contest very competitive with as he took the fight to the unbeaten champion. Unfortunately in the later rounds the contest Valero showed signs of exhaustion and Petch came on strong to take a 96-93 decision on all 3 cards. In one of the 3 support bouts fans got to see South Korean Myung-goo Yuh (18-4-1, 13) make very very light work of the thoroughly out-matched Morakote Patanakan Gym (8-4, 4) who was stopped in just 2 rounds by the hard hitting Korean, who was surprisingly fighting in Thailand for the 6th time. Yuh isn't a world class fighter but even he seems to realise that for a Korean fighter to make any type of name for himself he will have to travel and that's been something he's happy to do to get fights, hopefully more Korean's will follow suit. Another of the support bouts saw the WBC #1 Minimumweight contender Wanheng Menayothin (35-0, 11) take a pretty straight forward, though uninspiring, victory over Indonesia's Samuel Tehuayo (17-2-2, 3). Wanheng went through the motions for the first 4 rounds though came alive in round 5 and tried to stop Tehuayo. Tehuayo, to his credit, survived the storm but was a clear loser, despite inflicting a cut, albeit from a clash of heads, on Wanheng who saw out the round despite the pain and blood. The other bout on the show saw former Muay Thai fighter Kongputorn CPFreshmart (2-0, 2) stopping novice Lomnauo Sakberlin (0-1-1) in 4 rounds. Although boxrec.com have this down as an all debutant contest we have reported on the previous bouts of both men which, oddly, have passed boxrec. by. Victoria, Australia As well as the action in Thailand there was also Thai's in action in Australia. Unfortunately for these Thai's things didn't go as well as they did for some of the guys in Thailand. In Victoria the fans saw Yodmongkol Singmanasak (12-14-1, 7) suffer a very disappointing defeat at the hands of novice Martin Toma (1-1) with Toma taking a 4 round decision over the significantly more experienced Yodmongkol. This was Yodmongkol's 6th loss in Australia and we're starting to wonder if he will ever win "down under". In a bout fought at Heavyweight fans saw the 42 year old Komgrit Nanakorn (17-22, 7) suffering his 17th loss in Australia as American Pierre Karam (19-4-1, 6) took an 8 round decision over the Thai. Komgrit, to his credit, did get up from a knockdown but he now needs to think about his future as he can't keep taking shots at his age. (Image courtesy of boxrec,com) Yesterday was an interesting day for boxing though the most interesting story of the day was less about a fight that happened but rather one that didn't. This left a shadow over the sport for us, and for many others, though there was plenty of genuinely good action that shouldn't be forgotten for the single act of stupidity by one particular fighter. Phitsanulok, Thailand The earliest action of the day was in Thailand as Channel 7 televised an interesting show. Much of the action was Muay Thai though we did have a couple of boxing contests on it both of which had genuine significance in the sport. The biggest name in action on this Thai show was WBC #1 ranked Minimumweight Wanheng Menayothin (34-0, 11) who made light work of Indonesian journeyman Domi Nenokeba (11-17-1, 7). Nenokeba appears to have established his place in boxing with 17 successive losses include 2 to Wanheng who really must be wondering if the WBC will ever give him a title show after being the #1 contender for a considerable length of time now. The other boxing bout on this card saw Muay Thai fighter-turn-boxer Palangpol CP Freshmart (3-0, 3) rack up his second good stoppage win in as many months. Palangpol put on an aggressive display as he stopped the usually durable Indonesian Heri Amol (34-17-4, 14), who famously dropped Kazuto Ioka. Palangpol apparently claimed the WBA Asian Flyweight title with this victory and should move into the PABA rankings as a result. Moscow, Russia Whilst the Thai card was the first of the day we were all more excited about the action from Moscow which had the potential be something a little bit special. We had been anticipating the rematch between WBA Cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev (25-2, 19) and Guillermo Jones (39-3-2, 31) though that was unfortunately scrapped at the final hour after Jones was forced off the card after a positive drugs test. Although the main event was cancelled the show still went ahead with the other 6 bouts from the card. Of the bouts that did happen the best, on paper, looked like the battle of unbeaten Middleweights as the big punching Arif Magomedov (11-0, 8) took on Colombia's highly touted Alex Theran (16-1, 9). We had expected this to be an excellent match up but the big punching Russian just decimated Theran who was dropped, battered, cut and beaten. Although reports in Spanish language sources suggest Theran was cut by a headclash it seems that the Colombian was on to a hiding to nothing and realised it as he quit in his corner after 3 rounds. This victory grants Magomedov the WBA Fedelatin Middleweight title and a probably WBA world ranking. Another unbeaten fighter on this card was Umar Salamov (10-0, 9) who stopped the brave but out-matched Gasan Gasanov (7-3-1, 5). Gasanov pushed the action early on but was dropped twice in round 4 before being stopped by the big punching Salamov. Stood at 6'3" and aged just 19 Salamov looks like yet another Russian to keep an eye on at 175lbs though will likely fill into an excellent Cruiserweight. At the moment the unbeaten man holds the WBO and IBO Youth titles and is already getting his links to the major organising bodies. In another title fight Andrey Knyazev (10-1, 5) successfully defended his Russian Cruiserweight title stopping the game Ruslan Semenov (5-27-1, 3) in 4 rounds. We've been lead to believe that this was a very harsh stoppage in a fight that was being fought on a very even keel. The lower part of the card saw Ilya Rolgeyzer (3-0) defeat Roman Mirzoev (2-9, 1) in a relative dull bout whilst the debuting Sergey Lipinets (1-0) thoroughly dominated Franklin Varela (21-15, 10) who did very well to survive the course. With the main event being cancelled the biggest bout on the show was a contest between well regarded Lightweight pair Andrey Klimov (17-1, 8) and Francisco Contreras (22-5, 17). Although the bout looked good on paper it turned out to be a shocking contest full of fouls, hugging, holding and very little clean action. Whilst Boxnation didn't show this contest we can't help but feel relieved. Podolsk, Russia On a second Russian card there were several smaller bouts. One of those saw Maxim Maslov (14-1-1, 8) taking a decision over the tough but limited Arturs Kulikauskis (13-19-3, 6) whilst the unbeaten Igor Ivanov 98-0-1, 2) was unexpectedly held to a draw by Ukrainian Oleg Korobko (4-1-2, 1) who is odd 2-0-1 in Russia. Yucatán, Mexico Another Russian fighter who was in action was the unbeaten Andrey Meryasev (16-0, 11) who scored the biggest win of his career by defeating Argentina's Carlos Manuel Baldomir (49-16-6, 15) in a neutral venue of Mexico. Baldomir, best known for his shock upset over Zab Judah is no longer the fighter he once was and at close to 43 years old it's no surprise he was beaten by the younger fresher man. (Picture, of Wanheng, courtesy of boxrec.com) Busy day through Asia sees a lot of action with Thai's, Japanese and Filipino's all in action3/28/2014 This past Friday was a busy day through out the Asian boxing world with both fights in Asia and fights outside of Asia involving Asian fighters or various rankings. Bangkok, Thailand The action really kicked off in Thailand where Channel 7 televised a small show with 3 contests on, all of which included someone of note. The main event saw the very promising, and amazingly well named, Knockout CP Freshmart (6-0, 3) successfully defend his WBC Youth Minimumweight title with a clear decision victory over Filipino challenger Jonathan Refugio (13-4-4, 3). This was Refugio's 4th loss in 6 bouts whilst Knockout, who has now defended his Youth title 6 times, appears to be on the verge of climbing in to the fringes of the world rankings. As well as Knockout the show also featured former Minimumweight world champion Oleydong Sithsamerchai (53-1-1, 19) who scored a rare stoppage by taking out the win-less Kompetch Twins Gym (0-3). The other fight on this card featured the #1 ranked WBC Minimumweight challenger Wanheng Menayothin (33-0, 10) who managed to score a 6 round decision victory over Indonesian veteran Heri Amol (34-16-4, 14). It really is time that Wanheng moved on to fighting for a world title as he's been the #1 contender for far too long to just keep waiting. Tokyo, Japan In Tokyo Japanese fans got treat to a 12 fight show at the Korakuen Hall, with all the fights being scheduled for 4 rounds. Of the 12 bouts only 3 actually completed the schedule with these bouts seeing Tatsuji Kakumoto (3-4, 1) out point Shuhei Takahashi (2-2, 1) in a Flyweight bout, Yuta Itagaki (3-1-1, 1) defeat Genji Ishida (1-2) at Super Bantamweight and unbeaten Featherweight Takahiko Suzuki (3-0, 2) managed to over-come Kei Iwahara (2-1, 1). The shortest of the other bouts on the show lasted just 67 seconds as Satoru Morishita (3-5, 2) made unexpectedly light work of Kazuki Sanpei (2-2). Morishita's stoppage victory was one of two opening round KO's with Kazuto Nakane (2-1, 1) stopping the previously unbeaten Shinnosuke Yoshimori (1-1, 1). The most common result on the card were second round T/KO's which occurred in 5 of the 12 bouts. These included a victory for the unbeaten KO artist Naoki Mochizuki (3-0, 3) who stopped Iwashi Miyahara (1-4), Muneyuki Kishii (3-2, 2) who beat Kotaro Banba (1-1, 1), The unbeaten Ryo Hino (2-0, 1) who stopped Shun Wakabayashi (1-1), Hikaru Takaki (4-4, 4) who defeated Mitsushige Takahoshi (1-4, 1) and Taichi Kimura (3-1, 2) who claimed a victory over Ryota Harukawa (2-3, 2). The remaining bouts all finished in round 4. These saw Toshiki Maruyama (2-4, 2) beat Akira Watanabe (1-3, 1) and Kimihiro Nakagawa (2-0, 2) taking out Daigo Miyagawa (1-2-2). Suining, China In a show in China we saw a number of bouts, including 2 title bouts. For us the key bout here was the third meeting between China's very promising Qiu Xiao Jun (12-2, 4) and and Filipino veteran Jonathan Baat (25-5-3, 12). After having lost twice to Baat this was all about revenge for Jun, who manage to take a clear decision over his nemesis and defend his WBC Asia Council Continental Super Bantamweight title in the process. In the other title bout the Japanese based Ugandan Okello Peter (21-8, 19) was forced to retire from his bout with Russian giant Evgeny Orlov (15-12-1, 11) who claimed the WBC Asia Council Continental Heavyweight title courtesy of a 9th round retirement victory. The biggest upset on this card came in a female bout as China's Luo Yu Jie (3-6, 1) scored her first stoppage victory and defeated Japanese veteran Tamami Tor Buamas (6-4, 5). Although "Tor Buamas" is generally a Thai fighting name it seems that the 47 Tamami, real name Tamami Morimoto, has been fighting under a Thai banner since her debut back in 2009, hence the possible confusion. After this loss it seems that that's probably her career over though China's very own Qu Peng (5-0-1, 3) was successful on the card as scored his 4th straight win with a decision over Australian Paul Watson (2-3, 1). The one other bout on this card saw once beaten Russian Andrey Kalyuzhnyy (5-1, 3) take just 32 seconds to see off win-less Thai Kajorndet Or Ekachai (0-2). Victoria, Australia One of the highest ranked fighter in action was Filipino Randy Petalcorin (21-1-1, 16), the WBA #2 ranked Light Flyweight. Petalcorin, fighting against experienced Thai Samransak Singmanasak (35-22-1, 27), made light work of his opponent who was stopped in just the second round. Petalcorin was the only Asian on the card to win though wasn't the only one in action. The others who fought on the same show were Thailand's Kiatchai Singwancha (34-12, 23), who was stopped in round 7 by Manny Vlamis (12-3, 9), and Manopnoi Singmanasak (10-19, 6) who was stopped in 4 rounds by the light punching Terry Tzouramanis (12-1-3, 3). Although it was a memorable outing for Petalcorin, who seems likely to be fighting for a world title soon, it wasn't great for Thai's who went 0-3. New South Wales, Australia On a second Australian show we saw one of the most notable upsets of the day as the criminally over-looked Joebert Delos Reyes (12-4-1, 9) scored a sensational KO over the previously unbeaten Valentne Borg (6-1, 4). The over-looked Filipino was 4 rounds down when he landed a perfect right uppercut that dropped Borg hard. The victory for Delos Reyes saw him claiming the IBO Youth Lightweight title and extend his winning run to 5 fights. Sadly however we're seriously wondering if he'll struggle to get fights after upsetting 3 unbeaten fights in the last 2 years. The same card had mixed fortunes for other Filipino's as Joel Dela Cruz (17-20-2, 7) was beaten by Kurt Bahram (13-4-1, 5) in a bout for the New South Wales State Middleweight title, Michael Correa (3-10-3, 1) was beaten by Nathan Wright (3-0, 1) and Aswin Cabuy (14-46-4, 7) managed to score a draw with Zhang Yong (2-4-1, 1). Distrito Federal, Mexico The worst result of the day for an Asian fighter came in Mexico as the hard hitting Filipino Marvin Mabait (19-2-2, 13) was sensationally upset by Alejandro Hernandez (27-10-2, 14). Mabait, defending his WBO Inter-Continental Bantamweight title for the first time, was hurt and a follow up attack in round 5 saw eventually being stopped in a result that will be a major set back for the Filipino. (Photo, of Wanheng, courtesy of boxrec.com) |
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