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January 20th 1990- World Trade Center, Seoul, South Korea Sung Kil Moon (10-1, 9) Vs Nana Yaw Konadu (18-0-1, 14) I In today's boxing world we hear a lot about multi-weight world champions who have moved up in weight after struggling to make weight. We rarely hear success stories about fighters who move down in weight. The struggles with moving down in weight often seem to take the best from a fighter who never quite looks the same. That rule however didn't apply to Korean great Sung Kil Moon who began his career at Bantamweight, and won the WBA title there, though really forged his legacy at Super Flyweight. That Super Flyweight legacy began when Moon was involved in an up and war with the tough and unbeaten Nana Yaw Konadu, then the WBC champion. If you've never seen this one you really need to, just for the opening round alone.
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Technical decisions are often some of the most disappointing bouts in the sport and almost always seem to leave fans dissatisfied. Thankfully however a few bouts leave nobody unsatisfied, in fact if anything they leave the fans so amazed at the action they saw they simply enjoy what they got. That was certainly the case in the 1990 Super Flyweight classic between the legendary Sung Kil Moon of South Korea and Japanese challenger Kenji Matsumura. We won't completely spoil the bout but, as we often saw when Moon fought, there was action aplenty here with heavy leather being thrown, cuts opening, chaotic violence and everything you could hope to see. The only thing stopping it from being one of the all time classics was the 1-sided nature of the bout and when it was stopped at the end of the 5th round one judge amazingly had the winner 50-40 up whilst using the 10 point must system! We hope you enjoy this epic encounter which is as action packed as they come and the heart of both really cannot be questioned |
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