Bangkok, Thailand
The most notable of the day's action, for us, was in Thailand where Mono29 aired an interesting card. The main event was a highly anticipated bout that saw IBF Flyweight champion Amnat Ruenroeng (16-0, 5) successfully defending his title against explosive Filipino Johnriel Casimero (21-3, 13). On paper this was a fantastic match up but sadly it resulted in a foulfest with referee Larry Doggett acting as an enabler for Amnat's dirty style. There was no real doubting the winner but the bout really was badly marred by the poor officiating which did next to nothing to force “boxing” action and instead the bout resembled a street fight at times. Amnat wasn't the only “older fighter” in action in Thailand as 35 year old Manus Boonjumnong (1-0) made his professional debut. The Thai, who appeared to be fat as a well as old, was a 2004 Olympic champion who showed real touches of class as he dominated Indonesian veteran Jamed Jalarante (23-19-1, 11) in a very 1-sided 4 round bout. Manus, despite his age, still has speed but we do suspect it'll be too little too late for him to have a serious career. The televised portion of this card saw Atchariya Virotesunobon (4-0, 1) show traits of being a really exciting prospect as he easily out pointed Indonesia's Stevi Ongen Ferdinandus (16-9-1, 8) over 10 rounds. The unbeaten man really did look classy at times with a great variety of shots, lovely movement and an exciting ability to throw combinations, though we do wonder about his power at this early stage of his career. In a bout not shown on Mono29 former world title challenger Denver Cuello (36-5-6, 24) made light work of Boy Tanto (9-17, 1), who was stopped in the 5th round. The bout was a stay busy contest for the Filipino slugger who is now expected to return to Thailand to fight Wanheng Menayothin in December in a WBC world title fight. Metro Manila, Philippines In the Philippines fans got a small show in Metro Manila. It wasn't a big one but there title action and a couple of competitive under-card bouts. The title bout saw Japanese puncher Toshi Makoto Aoki (20-12-1, 17) retain his WBC Asian Boxing Council Lightweight title with a 3rd round victory over limited Indonesian Eddy Comaro (32-24-5, 13), who was stopped for the 10th time in his career. Coming into the bout Comaro had won his last 3 but the big punching Aoki was simply too strong from the off. On the under-card there was a couple of draws. One of those saw the unbeaten Prabhjot Singh (2-0-1, 2) fight to a 6 round majority draw with Jeffrey Garcia (1-3-1, 1). The other draw saw Jerwin Mejes (2-1-1, 2) fight an even bout with Jerwin Dela Rosa (2-5-1). Queensland, Australia There was interesting action involving Asian fighters in Australia where we had several Asian fighters in action, including an all-Asian bout and a genuine upset. The all Asian bout saw Aussie based Filipino Jack Asis (34-18-5, 18) continue his Cinderella man story with a split decision win over Indonesian visitor Hero Tito (10-7-1, 3). The bout, an 8 round contest, saw Asis taking a split decision win in a less than inspiring performance, though one that saw him extend his current unbeaten record to 14 bouts (13-0-1). The upset of the card saw China's Xu Chan (6-2) claim the WBA Oceania Light Welterweight title with a unanimous decision victory over the previously unbeaten Kris George (7-1, 5). Chan went into the bout as the clear under-dog though put on an inspiring performance to claim the biggest win of his career so far. The other Asian on this card was Wang Xinghua (11-12-1) who lost a competitive decision to Will Young (5-4, 2).
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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) This past Saturday may have been all about "The Moment" in terms of boxing but there was other, lower profile action in Asia. Cebu, Philippines The card we were looking forward to the most was in the Philippines. The show had promised a world title fight, a handful of top Filipino prospects and was expected to be a show to look forward to. Instead what we got was a disappointment. We still got the prospects but the world title fight was effectively taken from us after the the champion was stripped of their title. The man who was stripped was the now former IBF Light Flyweight champion John Riel Casimero (20-2, 12), who was stripped of his title for weighing more than 5lbs over the Light Flyweight limit. That weight advantage wasn't needed by Casimero and the class difference was quickly shown as he swiftly dispatched the hapless Mauricio Fuentes (16-3, 10) who was dropped 3 times inside a round. Although Fuentes was "able" to win the title in theory he really shouldn't have been given this opportunity and the fight really was a farce from the second it was announced to the second it was stopped. Whilst the "world title fight" was a farce we did get some interesting prospect action. Amongst the prospects in action was the very highly touted Harmonito Dela Torre (13-0, 8) who managed to score a 3rd round stoppage over the limited Gadwin Tubigon (10-9-2, 5). Dela Torre's win saw him claim the lightly regarded vacant World Boxing Federation International Super Featherweight title. Another of the prospects in action was former amateur stand out Jack Tepora (10-0, 6) who scored a 10th round stoppage over Jo-as Apericio (11-12, 8) to claim the World Boxing Federation International Super Bantamweight title. Tepora, dubbed "The Golden Boy", claimed his first title with this victory and seems set to move up a level or two in the next year. The same Filipino show had yet more title action as Rey Labao (26-5, 17) defended his Lightweight title with a 5th round TKO over Rodel Wenceslao (7-8-1, 2) in what was a mismatch, whilst Jessie Cris Rosales (14-0-1, 5) claimed the WBO Asia Pacific Youth Featherweight title with a hard fought 10 round victory over Anthony Sabalde (8-4, 4). Lower down the card, in 8 round bouts, Jessie Espina (7-1, 3) out pointed the debuting Philip Jun Pronco (0-1) whilst Joey Canoy (5-0-1, 3) out pointed Mark Anthony Florida (8-5, 7). In the only 6 rounder Jaybie Haya (3-1-1, 2) out pointed the previously unbeaten Carlo Demecillo (2-1, 1). Whilst over the 4 round distance Junuel Lacar (4-1-1, 2) wiped out Honorato Boc (0-1) inside a minute and the previously win-less Eduardo Joaquino (1-1) upset the previously unbeaten Ronnie Tanallon (3-1, 1). Davao Del Sur, Philippines On a second Filipino show we saw the return to the ring of the very talented highly promising Jerwin Ancajas (20-1-1, 12) who made very light work of Thai opponent Petchwanchai Sor Visetkit (14-7, 6), scoring an opening round stoppage. This was Ancajas's second stoppage this year over Thai opponents and it seems time that he was stepped up a level. There is little point in such a talented fighter running up a series of these type of wins when he could well be fighting his way to a world title fight. Tokyo, Japan Whilst the action in the Philippines stole the day in regards to the Asian fight scene there was two shows in Japan. One of those was in Tokyo as we got "Dangan 100". This show began with a female bout that saw Chie Higano (2-0) over-come the debuting Sayaka Aoki (0-1) in a clear decision over 4 rounds. The female bout was one of three 4 rounders with the others both seeing swift stoppages. The swiftest of those stoppages came inside a round as the debuting Ryu Ueda (1-0, 1) scored an 83 second victory over Taisho Sugano (0-2), the other stoppage came part way through the second round as Hisao Narita (5-1, 3) stopped Naoya Kaneko (3-2, 3). The only 6 rounder on "Dangan 100" saw the debut of the very highly touted former amateur stand out Kenya Noguchi (1-0) who out pointed Hideharu Takahashi (6-10, 2), Noguchi is a teenager we've been told is "an outstanding talent" and we'd advise fight fans to follow him intently. Following the under-card we than had a foursome of feature bouts. None of them featured world class fighters but all 4 were interesting contests on paper. The first of those bouts saw Johnreil Maligro (11-0, 8) out point the unbeaten Tatsuya Yanagi (10-1, 4) in a genuinely excellent match up. Maligro, known as Jun Sakura, got easily the most impressive victory of his career and the 19 year old really does have the potential to go on and win titles if he continues to develop like he seems to be. Following Maligro's fantastic victory we then saw former Japanese title challenger Ryuta Otsuka (14-6-2, 4) score a stoppage over Yosuke Fujihara (14-3, 4). For Otsuka this was his first stoppage in well over 2 years whilst it was Fujihara's second successive stoppage loss. In the chief support bout fans got to see former Japanese Super Bantamweight champion Masaaki Serie (25-6, 10) out point Filipino visitor Michael Escobia (10-7-1, 2) in what turned out to be an very hard fought and competitive match up. Although not an old fighter in terms of years, the 31 year old does look like an older fighter and perhaps needs a break from the ring. A former opponent of Serie was also in action on the card, that was Rikiya Fukuhara (29-7-1, 21). Fukuhara, a hard hitter, made light work of Filipino fighter Jaderes Padua (9-4-1, 6) scoring an opening round KO. After the fight Fukuhara called out Japanese Featherweight champion Satoshi Hosono. We can't help but think that Hosono would stop Fukuhara, as he did in a previous meeting between the two men, but it'll certainly be fun. Osaka, Japan A second show in Japan was headlined by Hiroshige Osawa (25-3-4, 14) stopping the game Kosuke Saka (8-3, 5). Saka fought well but was stopped due to a nasty injury. Osawa, a former OPBF champion, is really rebuilding his career after a year long suspension by the JBC for taking part in an unsanctioned contest in South Korea. (Picture, courtesy of Celes Boxing Gym, is of Noguchi) |
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