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This Thursday was an interesting day in some ways for boxing fans though ended up being a relatively disappointing one overall with some farcical events.
District of Columbia, USA The biggest fight of the night, in terms of importance, came from Washington DC where WBC Super Flyweight champion Carlos Cuadras (31-0-1, 25) successfully defended his title against Filipino challenger Marvin Mabait (19-3-2, 13). Mabait, a late replace for compatriot Sonny Boy Jaro, was out of his depth early one and was battered in rounds 4 and 5 before finally being stopped in the 6th round. California, USA Another bout in the US was a relatively farcical Heavyweight clash that saw the gigantic Chinese novice Taishan Dong (2-0, 2) stopping the hapless Tommy Washington Jr (3-7, 2) inside a round. This was Washington's first fight in 6 years and it showed as he had seemingly forgotten how to fight, how to punch and how to get up from a knockdown. Whilst we understand Dong needs to get bouts under his belt and develop his experience fights like this one won't do him any favours and if anything will do his development more harm than anything else. Bangkok, Thailand In Thailand we saw Kalae McShane (2-0, 1) scoring an impressive 6 round win over the over-matched Keanpetch Manoprungroj (4-3, 2) who was dropped in the opening round. Tokyo, Japan The only Japanese show of the day was a small Dangan show with the entire card of 4 rounders. Despite all the fighters being novices the card did have some of the most competitive bouts of the day on it as well as some bouts that turned out to be rather one-sided. The most competitive bout resulted in a draw as Kenji Ishii (3-4-1, 3), one of the show's most experienced fighters, fought to a 4 round majority draw with Yutaka Uemura (2-2-1, 2). We also made other draws as Masaharu Kaito (1-0) only just squeaked past Satoru Araki (0-1) with a majority decision win and Yuita Tamaguchi (4-4, 1) just beat Shogo Dairakuibn (2-2, 1) in the narrowest of narrow split decisions. Other decision wins saw Naoki Uebayashi (1-1) record his first win with a decision over the debuting Toshihiko Saito (0-1), the previously win-less Mao Kawanishi (1-1) took a competitive win over Shohei Nagashima (0-2), who remains unbeaten. One other decision saw Toshiki Nishihara (4-3-1, 1) take a very narrow win over Toshiki Maruyama (3-6, 2) in another bout that was amazingly close. The shortest of the show's bouts lasted just 77 seconds as Takayoshi Miyachi (1-0, 1) quickly took out fellow debutant Chikashi Takahashi (0-1). It didn't take much of round 2 for Kazutomo Oma (2-0, 2) to see off Sosuke Sakata (2-2, 1). Another second round stoppage saw Makoto Yamazaki (1-0, 1) take out Yoshiki Toriyama (0-1). The show also had a pair of stoppages coming in round 3 as Seiryu Toshikawa (1-1, 1) defeated Tatsuro Jin (2-2, 1) and Takuya Muto (1-1, 1) defeated Jun Takahashi (0-1). The only stoppage to come in round 4 saw Hiromichi Komatsu (1-0, 1) defeat Kohei Ogawa (0-1) with less than 30 seconds of their bout remaining.
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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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