This past Saturday wasn't a hugely busy day but did feature enough notable action.
Nevada, USA In the sole “world” title fight of note, involving an Asian at least, we saw Kazakh fighter Beibut Shumenov (16-2, 10) claim the WBA “interim” Cruiserweight title. The former Light Heavyweight champion looked scored at times against BJ Flores (31-2-1, 20) but was too quick and too skilled for the American, especially in the later rounds. After the fight Flores came across as an incredibly sore loser though it's fair to say that neither man really showed themselves ad a “world class” Cruiserweight here. California, USA In California fans saw the hugely popular Filipino-America Brian Viloria (36-4-0-2, 21) make very light work of veteran Omar Soto (23-12-2, 15). Soto was downed 3 times in a little over 2 minutes as Viloria moved a step towards a major bout, possibly with Roman Gonzalez. we have seen people really criticising this Viloria/Soto bout though it should be noted that Soto had pushed Viloria hard in their first meeting, albeit 5 years ago, and this rematch seems to have been a case of Viloria making a statement regarding their first meeting. Bangkok, Thailand The only Asian show of the day was in Thailand and featured 4 relatively one sided match ups. The main event of the show saw Japan's Cobra Suwa (16-11-2, 8) claim the WBC Asian Boxing Council Silver Super Welterweight title as he scored a 2nd round KO against Indonesian fighter Elly Pangaribuan (4-6-2, 1). This was the 5th stoppage loss for Pangaribuan who probably needs to think about reconsidering his career whilst Suwa may well find himself moving towards a Japanese title fight. Another Japanese fighter picking up a win on this card was Sho Kimura (7-1-2, 1) who scored his first stoppage win as he over-come Saichon Or Ounsuwon (0-24). As with Suwa this was a 2nd round stoppage. In an all Thai bout Saenganan Sithsaithong (12-0, 6) took a 6 round decision against the limited Thaminkhao Sor Tharnthip (4-1-1, 3) whilst Jaipetch Chaiyonggym (5-3, 1) took a decision victory over Chatchai Or Benjamas (1-6, 1). New South Wales, Australia In New South Wales we saw a number of Asian fighters in action. Sadly for Thai fighters they went 0-4 for the day. The most notable bout saw Aussie based Filipino Joebert Delos Reyes (15-5-1, 10) take a 6th round technical decision win over Apichat Koedchatturat (0-1). Another Thai who lost a decision was Pramool Boonpok (1-17-1), who was out pointed by Tommy Browne (28-7-1, 11). The other Thai's were both stopped. One of those was Tom Ford (7-5-2 7), who was beaten in 5 rounds by David Browne Jnr (22-1-1, 8) whilst the other was the experienced Denkamon Pakdee Gym (22-6, 13), who was stopped by Kyron Dryden (7-1, 5). Queensland, Australia In Queensland the win-less Arnon Yuchareon (0-10-1) continues his unfortunate run as he was clearly beaten by Ben Kite (3-2-1, 1).
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This past Saturday was a busy day in the world of boxing with fights all over the place involving some wonderfully talented fighters. Nevada, USA On a Golden Boy Promotions show in Nevada we had two Asian fighters in action and both had lost there most recent bout. The first in action was OPBF Welterweight champion Yoshihiro Kamegai (25-2-1, 22). Kamegai was fighting for the first time since his all action loss to Robert Guerrero in June and managed to make very light work of the over matched Oscar Godoy (13-4, 6). Godoy was down several times before eventually being stopped by Kamegai who is now 2-2-1 (2) in the US. Kamegai was watched by fellow Teiken fighters Takashi Miura and Shinsuke Yamanaka who were in attendance for the contest. The other Asian fighter was former WBA Light Heavyweight champion Beibut Shumenov (15-2, 10) who stopped Bobby Thomas Jr (14-3-1, 9). Shumenov was fighting as a fully blown Cruiserweight for the first time and although he is ranked #2 by the WBA it's hard to see him winning a world title at his new weight. Nevada, USA On a Top Rank promoted show, also in the US, we had two Russian's in action. The first of those was Denis Shaifkov (35-1-1, 19) who over-came the heavy handed Miguel Angel Mendoza (21-5-2, 21) in an entertaining contest. The fight was shown on Toprank.tv and seemed to be about keeping Shafikov busy ahead of a possible world title fight in early 2015. The other Russian was former amateur standout Matt Korobov (24-1, 14) who was stopped in 6 rounds by Irishman Andy Lee (34-2, 24). The bout, for the WBO Middleweight title, was one of the worst of the weekend with a very slow start, consisting of 4 rounds of the two men failing to engage. When the two did start to come to blows at the start of round 6 they hurt each other with Korobov failing to recover before Lee wailed away and forced referee Kenny Bayless to step in and stop the previously unbeaten Korobov. Nuevo León, Mexico In Mexico fans had the opportunity to see former IBF Light Flyweight champion John Riel Casimero (21-2, 13) in action, albeit not for long. Casimero, fighting in an IBF Flyweight eliminator, destroyed Armando Santos (14-4-1, 8) in just 2 rounds. Santos was dropped in the opening round by a huge left hand before being dismantled at the start of round 2 by the Filipino road warrior who will now be looking for an opportunity to become a 2-weight world champion. Osaka, Japan In Osaka fans got the chance to see a small card which was headlined by Satoru Sugita (9-2-1, 6) who scored a 5th round TKO against Akira Shono (7-7-2, 4) with a devastating flurry of shots. In the chief support bout fans saw a decision win for the light hitting Il Che (7-8-4, 1) who easily over-came Tomonori Ota (6-5, 4). Che used excellent movement and was a run away winner in a bout that was surprisingly 1-sided given the records of the two men involved. The other notable supporting bout saw the light hitting Tatsunori Fukunaga (5-5, 2) score just his 2nd stoppage win in 10 bouts as he over-came the debuting Anucha Sor Soda (0-1) from Thailand. The 6 under-card bouts here were all 4 rounders and many were close, in fact only 1 of the under-card bouts failed to go the distance as Maya Uegaki (1-0, 1) began her career with a 2nd round KO of fellow debutant Shizuka Nakamura (0-1). The closest of the under-card contests saw Masaru Hasegawa (0-2-1) fighting to a draw with Kewpie Tsubawa (0-1-1) though there nearly a second draw as Takashi Okura (3-3, 1) take a majority decision over the win-less Daiki Haraguchi (0-8). Ryo Ishida (2-1, 1) narrowly escaped with a win as he over-came Shota Oka (1-1) with a razor thin decision and Koji Nakamura (4-6) took a close one over Ryuto Araya (2-7-1, 2). The only clear cut decision here saw the unbeaten Takuya Uehara (3-0, 1) clearly beat Thai visitor San Saknarong (0-1). Metro Manila, Philipines Filipino fans got a rather interesting domestic card from Metro Manila which featured several interesting contests. The most interesting of those was one of two GAB title fights on the card. This one in particular saw Benezer Alolod (16-5-5, 5) narrowly over-come Renren Tesorio (13-6-3, 4) to retain the GAB Light Flyweight title. Alolod scored the win with a split decision but it could easily have gone the other way. The other title fight on this show left nothing to chance as Dan Nazareno Jr (21-12, 17) showed off his power and retained his GAB Welterweight title with an opening round blow out against Dennis Padua (9-10-2, 4) in what always looked like a mismatch. Both of the chief support contests ended in the 9th round. The most entertaining of those was a knock-down filled Super Bantamweight bout that saw Danilo Gabisay (6-3, 4) stopping the Angelito Merin (7-5-3, 1). Merin was down 4 times as Gabisay battered his light hitting foe. In the other support bout Ernesto Saulong (16-1-1, 6) stopped Jimmy Aducal (8-4-2, 6) dropping Aducal prior to the stoppage. Lower down the card Toto Landero (4-0-1, 1) narrowly kept his unbeaten record intact with a narrow majority decision win over Jeven Villavite (3-3-3, 1). We had a minor upset as Julius Bala (4-2, 1) dominated Arnil Caoctoy (5-3, 2) en route to scoring a 2nd round TKO. We also saw a female contest as former world title challenger Jessebelle Pagaduan (7-1, 4) took a clear decision over the debuting Florivic Montero (0-1) Eastern Cape, South Africa Staying with Filipino's it's fair to say one of them won't be happy in the run up to Christmas. That will be Michael Dasmarinas (18-2, 11) who will have felt the judges gave a gift to South African Lwandile Sityatha (18-3-1, 7). The Filipino went to Sityatha's homeland in an attempt to claim the IBO Super Flyweight title but was “beat” by split decision with score cards that were all over the place. On the same card Marbon Bodiongan (11-2-2, 9) came up short against Xolani Mcotheli (11-1, 8) in a bout scored a clear win for the South African fighter, who won the IBO Inter-Continental Super Featherweight title. From what we're been told this was a near shut out by the South African fighter. Kiev, Ukraine In Ukraine fans saw unbeaten Kazakh Roman Zhailauov (13-0, 8) continue on his winning ways with a stay busy bout against the win-less Artem Komar (0-3). We like Zhailauov but cannot understand why 2014 has been such a write off for such a young and talented boxer who could have achieved so much more this year. Victoria, Australia In Australia fans saw Thailand's Terdkiat Siththeppitak (1-9) suffer his 9th straight loss as he was out pointed by the debuting Kayne Pettifer (1-0) in a 4 round contest. (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp and Sumio Yamada) Shumenov comes up short whilst Korobov's winning run continues and Asian's do the job in Tanzania4/20/2014 In regards to action in Asia this past Saturday was dreadful with not a single card, that we're aware of taking place at all. Thankfully though a sprinkling of Asian fighters were in action across the rest of the world with some mixed results. Washington DC, USA The highest profile bout of the day in regards to Asian fighters was sadly the most disappointing as Beibut Shumenov (14-2, 9) was beaten by American legend Bernard Hopkins (55-6-2-2, 32). The fight, a Light Heavyweight unification bout, lacked real drama and Shumenov was unusually tame as he fell into Hopkins's trap of fighting a slow fight. Despite being 49 Hopkins proved once again that he is a real genius in the ring and whether you like him or not he's a sure fire first ballot Hall of Fame entrant when ever he decides to hang up his gloves. Florida, USA On a separate US card fans got to see the highly touted, and now world ranked, Russian Middleweight Matt Korobov (23-0, 14) score a stay busy win over the completely over-matched Emil Gonzalez (11-8-1, 8). The only thing Gonzalez had for himself going into this fight was the fact he hadn't been stopped in 19 previous contests though at the end of round 6 he was retired from the contest giving Korobov his first victory of the year. Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania Surprisingly we had two Asian fighters in action in Tanzania. The more surprising of the two bout on this show saw Iranian novice Sajjad Mehrabi (1-0-2) core a very unexpected draw with Francis Cheka (30-8-2, 16). Cheka, who has been in with some genuine world class fighters, was expected to score an easy win though this draw for the 28 year old Mehrabi is certainly a great result and shows that there is perhaps some talent in Iran even if it is still an untapped country for boxing. The other other Asian on this card was also a man willing to play spoiler. This time it was Thailand's Sukkasem Kietyongyuth (13-2, 8), a former PABA Super Bantamweight champion, who did the job as he scored an opening round TKO victory over the more experienced Francis Miyeyusho (37-11-2, 23). Miyeyusho was down twice before the referee stopped the contest and gave him his 10th stoppage loss in 50 bouts. (Picture, of Sukkasem Kietyongyuth, courtesy of boxrec.com) |
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