We return with the latest in our "Did You Know" series as we look at some random facts concerning the OPBF Light Middleweight title!
The belt has been around since 1960 and whilst it's certainly not the most prestigious of titles it's an interesting one all the same, so let ups bring you "Did you know... The OPBF Light Middleweight title" -The first man to hold the title was Se Chul Kang, who won the belt in November 1960. Entering the title bout he had a reported record of 9-8-1 (4) and was 34 years old. Interestingly he managed to defend the best once before losing it the following November. -The first 3 champions were all crowned at home! These were Kang, as mentioned, Keowan Yontrakit, who won the belt in Thailand, and Shigemasa Kawakami, who won the belt in Japan. -The first champion to be crowned outside of their country of birth was Ansano Lee, a Korean fighter who won the vacant title in Japan in 1966. His title win was also the first time a new champion was crowned by a decision, with the previous 3 champions all claiming the title by T/KO. -Hideo Kanazawa has the longest single reign in terms of defenses, 8, and length of reign, holding the belt for over 5 years. Kanazawa wwas also the first man to score a KO1 win in a bout for the belt. Kanazawa actually won the belt with a KO1 against Ansano Lee and then defended it against Napp Flores with a KO1. -Whilst Kanazawa did mange a lengthy reign he did lose a number of non-title fights, including losses to future world champion Koichi Wajima and Jae Doo Yuh. -The first draw in a bout for the title came in 1978, when Ho Joo defended the beat against Tsutomu Hagusa in their third bout bout, second for the title. -Tadashi Mihara was the first man to won the belt then go on to win a world title. -Mihara was actually followed by In Chul Baek, who also won a world title, though Baek won his world title at 168lbs, not 154lbs. -On the subject of In Chul Bak he has the longest combined reign, with 13 defenses over his two combined reigns as the champion, which stretch for well over 6 years. He was stripped in the summer of 1984 then won title back, giving him the 12th and 13th reigns with the belt. -Carlos Elliot was the first American to win the title, winning it in 1987. Elliot would go on to be a 2-time champion. Charlie Ota, or Charles Bellamy, would become the second American to win the belt when he win it in 2010. -In 1988 Francisco Lisboa became the first Indonesian to win the title, upsetting Carlos Elliot to win the title. Elliot would avenge this loss to reclaim the title just 5 months later. -It took until Christmas day 1993 for a Filipino to hold the title, with Armand Picar becoming the first Pinoy to win the belt. -Picar's title win saw him getting revenger over Young Kil Jung, who had beaten him in two previous bouts. -Ernie Artango was the first of 3 Australian fighters to win the belt. He has since been followed by Nader Haman and Daniel Geale, who won the interim title. -Chang Tae Kim's 1997bout with Jun Castillo saw Castillo ripping one of his shoes, and fighting with out a show. -The title has had 4 interim champions. From those 4 men all but one has managed to win the full version of the title. The one exception was Daniel Geale, who managed to unify world titles! -In 1960, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2015 the title was only fought for once per year. -The title wasn't fought for at all in 1962, 1967, 1990, 1998, 2012 or 2018.
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Over the last few weeks we've been quietly enjoying some of the great fights for the Japanese Light Middleweight title, and thought the belt deserved a bit more attention. In our eyes it made perfect sense to give the belt the "Did you know..." treatment and enjoy a chance to talk about the linage of a belt that few even mention.
The belt has been around since the mid 1960's and has had some notable fighters holding it over the years. Whilst it's not got the mega strong lines of the Japanese Super Flyweight title it's had a few world champions holding it, and is very much an over-looked belt which deserves more attention. It's also given us some absolute thrillers between the ropes. Rather than talking about the great bouts form the division, we'll save that for another day, we have brought you a bumper edition of the "Did you know..." series. -The first bout for the title saw Muneo Mizoguchi over-come Nakao Sasazaki for the belt in July 1966. -Mizoguchi's reign saw him defend the title 3 times until he lost the belt in 1968 to Noriyasu Yoshimura. Rather interestingly the first bout after Mizoguchi won the title saw him not defending it, but rather moving up in weight to challenged for the Japanese Middleweight title. -The third champion was Koichi Wajima, who also became the first 2-time champion and a future world champion, in fact he would go on to become a 3-time world champion. He was also the first fighter to vacate the title, doing so to end his second reign. -American born US based fighter George Carter was the first fighter to successfully win the title and then move up in weight to win the Japanese Middleweight title. He was the first of 3 American born fighters to win the title. -Rather interestingly Turtle Okabe was the first man to do the opposite of Carter winning the Japanese Middleweight then moving down to win the Light Middlweight title. -Raizo Kashima, who held the title for 5 months in 1973, finished his career with a 10-12-2 (2) record. -Prior to winning the title Hitoshi Nakagawa had lost his previous 3 bouts by T/KO. After winning the title he would lose his final 4 bouts. Similarly Hiroshi Hikichi never won a bout after he won the title in 1975, going 0-4-1 in his 5 subsequent bouts before retiring. -Talking about Hiroshi Hikichi he won the title on the under-card of Hisasmi Numata's WBC Bantamweight title fight with Rodolfo Martinez in OCtober 1975 -Interestingly Tadashi Mihara did the opposite of Koichi Wajima, winning a world title and then going on to win the Japanese title afterwards. In fact Mihara is one of the very few fighters to ever do things that way across any division. -Carlos Elliot was the second American born fighter to win this title, after George Carter. -The most defenses of the title is 20! That was set by Hitoshi Kamiyama, who held the belt from January 1989 to March 1995. He is also the longest reigning champion in terms of time as well. -Notably Hitsohi Kamiyama's reign was the first one of the Heisei era in Japanese history, with Kamiyama winning the belt just a day after the Heisei era began. -Satying with Hitoshi Kamiyama his reign was following by that of his stablemate Tatsufumi Ito, who won the belt on the same day as Kamiyama's retirement ceremony. -The second longest reign saw Akira Ohigashi record 10 defenses of the belt, only half that of Kamiyama's record setting reign. -One of, it not both, Joya Kawai and Crazy Kim featured in every bout for the title from February 1999 to December 2006. -It took almost a year between Nobuhiro Ishida's first and second defenses of the title -In 2009 Akio Shibata unified the Japanese and OPBF titles by beating Yuki Nonaka. This bout is the first of 8 bouts where the titles were fought for together, and it was the first to be fought over 12 rounds as a result. -From the 8 bouts where the OPBF and Japanese titles were together Charles Bellamy was involved in 7 of them. He was also the third American born fighter to hold the title. -Tadashi Yuba's title win in 2013 saw him become the first 5 division Japanese national champion in history. Prior to winning this belt he had won the Ligthweight, Light Welterweight, Welterweight and Middleweight titles. -In 2018 Akinori Watanabe became the first, and so far only, fighter to win an interim version of this title. -At the time of writing there has been 146 bouts for the belt, including a single interim title bout, crowing 39 regular champions, and an interim champion. -In 1987 Nobuyuki Tabata became the first man to win the belt with a KO1 result, since then only Tadashi Yuba, in 2013, has done that. Although Akinori Watanabe won the interim title with the same result. In total only 4 of the 145 bouts for the regular title have ended in the opening round. -There have been 8 draws in bouts for the title. Michihiro Horihata defended the belt twice with a draw, whilst both Kenji Shibata and Hiroshi Hikichi were involved in draws as both champion and challenger. This trio are the only men to have been involved in more than one draw for the belt. Today's Did You Know is a little different to usual as it looks at a rather peculiar bout that took place in 2009 at the Differ Ariake in Tokyo. That wasn't the originally set venue for the contest, and the bout only took place there due to some issues with the original venue. Which wasn't even in the same country as where the bout took place!
The bout in question is the WBC Flyweight title bout between defending champion Daisuke Naito and Chinese challenger Xiong Zhao Zhong. It was a rather odd event overall, but also a very notable one. -The bout with was rather strange in a number of ways. Originally it had been planned for Shanghai, but had to be cancelled on short notice, reportedly 2 days notice, due to issues with the organisers in China. It was then re-arranged for the Differ Ariake in Japan as a peculiar 1-bout event, with no under-card, and all the tickets were sold at the venue on the day of the event. -When Xiong scored a knockdown of Naito in round 6 it was only the second time Naito had been dropped, having previously been down in his opening round KO loss to Pongsaklek Wonjongkam in their first bout. -Both men were deducted points for headclashes. In fact there was 3 points deducted in total, with 2 coming from Xiong, in rounds 4 and 5, and one from Naito, in round 10. -This was Xiong's international debut. He would go on to fight on the road a further 4 times, losing twice more in Japan, as well as in Monaco. But he did score a huge win in Dubai. -The bout was aired on TBS in Japan, who tried to sell Xiong as a "Little Tyson" in the build up video. This was different to how they sold Naito, with English test popping on the screen stating "He is a romantic". -Sankyo were involved in putting the bout on. Sankyo are also responsible for putting on a number of recent Kazuto Ioka bouts, including his bout with Donnie Neites, in Macao, and his most recent bouts, against Jeyvier Cintron. -This was the first time someone from the People's Republic of China had fought for a world title.* -Naito was said to have been embarrassed by how close this bout was and his performance. He went on to apologise to the fans for the bout. *Prior to this bout Rocky Lin, a fighter from the "Republic of China", or Taiwan, had twice fought for a world a world title. We return to the Japanese title scene for this weeks "Did You Know" as we talk about the Japanese Super Flyweight title. It's a belt that has been active since 1980 and has had a rather interesting array of champions in the 40 years, or so, that it's been around. Not every champion has gone on to big things but plenty have since the title's inception. Here we look to share of the titles more interesting facts!
-The first champion was Jackal Maruyama, who stopped Satoshi Koguchi in 5 rounds to win the belt in December 1980. He would defend it twice before vacating it less than a year later. -Maruyama was also the first 2-time champion, defeating Tsutomu Itokazu to recapture the title....in what was the third bout between the two men. -Maruyama's second reign saw him record 4 defenses, before vacating for the second time in October 1983. His 4 defenses in a single reign stood as a record until Shunichi Nakajima came around and recorded 6 defenses, in 1990. That record still stands today. -The next most defenses have been 5, set by Teiru Kinoshita and Sho Ishida -We've mentioned Maruyama was the first 2-time champion, he has since been joined by Kazuo Katsuma, Tadashi Maruo and incumbent champion Kenta Nakagawa. -The first fighter to win the belt and win a world title was Kiyoshi Hatanaka, who won the title in 1987 before winning the WBC Super Bantamweight title -Others who have gone from winning this title to a world title are Katsuya Onizuka, Hiroshi Kawashima, Satoshi Iida, Katsushige Kawashima, Nobuo Nashiro, Kohei Kono and Yota Sato. -Katsushige Kawashima vacated the title in 2002 to let his then Ohashi Gym stablemate Masayuki Arinaga fight for it. Arinaga ended up losing to Prospect Matsura. -The first time the title was defended with a T/KO 1 came in 1990, when Katsuya Onizuka made his first defense, and stopped Tomohiko Yokoyama in 78 seconds. This is actually the only time a bout for the title has failed to last at least a full round. -On a similar note there have only been 2 T/KO 2 results in bouts for the title. The first of those was in 2003, when Masaki Kawabata stopped Posper Matsuura to claim the title in the short bout that has seen the title change hands, and in 2017 when Ryuichi Funai defended the title against Shota Kawaguchi. -The February 2008 title bout between Kohei Kono and Kuniyuki Aizawa is the only bout for the belt to be fought over 12 rounds, not 10. This was because the bout was for the unified Japanese and OPBF titles. -The title has been vacated 19 times from a combined 42 title reigns of the full title. -There has been a single interim title reign, by Yota Sato, who then beat the regular champion to unify titles. -At the time of writing there has been 103 bouts for either the full title, or the interim title. Of those 4 have resulted in draws. -Sadly Akira Taiga and Seiji Tanaka both died from injuries suffered in bouts for the title. -The established Teiken Gym have only had a single holder of the belt, and that was Tsutomu Itokazu who held the belt almost 40 years ago! One of the divisions we don't really think about when it comes to Asia is the Light Heavyweight division. There have been very few fighters from Asia able to make their mark on the global scene at 175lbs, despite the fact the division is one of the "traditional 8" weight classes.
Whilst the history of the division in Asia is weak there is actually an OPBF title at Light Heavyweight, and that belt has been active since the early 1980's. It's certainly not one of the strongest linages for an OPBF title, but it's a title that deserves a little bit more light on it. With that in mind, we bring you "Did you know...The OPBF Light Heavyweight title" -The first bout for the title was in July 1982, that's almost 30 years after the first bouts for the likes of the OPBF Flyweight, Bantamweight, Featherweight, Lightweight, Welterweight and Middleweight titles. The only traditional weight to come after it was Heavyweight, which came in November 1982. -The first champion was Soo Hang Lee. On boxrec he finished with a 1-2 record, showing his only professional win, was his OPBF title win over Toshiaki Suzuki. -The second ever OPBF champion, Gary Hubble, scored a win over a fighter with the ring name "I M Gentle". -Boxrec lists Gary Hubble was also the first ever 2-time champion, having lost the title to Chong Pal Park. This bout isn't recognised by a number of other sources, and it appears this bout wasn't actually a title bout. -If we consider boxrec as being right (see above) then Chong Pal Park was the first man to hold the title and go on to win a world title. If they are wrong then the first was actually Jeff Harding. -Wang Sub Lee holds the record for the most defenses of the title, with 5. -Hisashi Teraji, the father of current world champion Kenshiro Teraji, was the first Japanese fighter to win the title. Interestingly he has the second most defenses, 4. -Jeff Harding isn't the only Aussie to win the OPBF belt before going on to win a world title. That was feat was also achieved by Paul Briggs. -There have been 18 (or 20, depending on the Chong Pal Park situation) champions, with 10 (or 12) reigns lacking a single successful defenses. -The first 3 title bouts were in Seoul -The title has only had 41 bouts for it, that's not much more than 1 a year! -The bout was inactive from January 2013, when Togasilimai Letoa vacated the title, to February 2017. It was almost 5 years between Togasilimai Letoa winning the title, in March 2012, to February 2017. We continue looking over a bunch of titles during this series as we look at the OPBF Middleweight title, as we bring you "Did you know...the OPBF Middleweight title".
-The inaugural title fight saw Hachiro Tatsumi defeat Tony Aldeguer. Amazingly the men had a staggering different in experience, if we take Boxrec's records as being complete. It was Tatsumi's 75th bout and Aldeguer's 5th. This bout was when the title was still known as the OBF title. -We mentioned the difference in experience between Tatsumi and Aldeguer a moment ago. If we accept boxrec's records as complete, which they admit they aren't, then Tatsumi's title bout against Sema Klasuk has an even crazier gulf in experience. It was Tatsumi's 84th bout...and Klasuk's debut! On a similar note Tatsumi, who was then 63-21-5 (19) lost the title in 1957 to the then 1-0 (1) Daothong Singhpallop...who had fought just 3 recorded rounds before beating Tatsumi. -Hachiro Tatsumi is not only the first OPBF Middleweight champion but is also one of two 3-time champion. Sadly though his 3 combined reigns only saw him making 2 successful defenses. He also managed to unify the OPBF and Japanese titles in the 1950's! -The only other 3-time champion, for those who are curios, is Fumio Kaizu who managed 6 defenses in total, including one over Tatsumi. -When Somdej Yontarakit defeated Hachiro Tatsumi in 1955 he became the first 2-weight OPBF champion, holding the OPBF Welterweight and Middleweight titles. -Jae Doo Yuh holds the record for most defenses, at 21. Interestignly Boxrec has credited him with an extra defense. It appears his second but with Nobuyoshi Ozaki, in March 1975, wasn't actually an OPBF title fight defense. -Yuh is one of just two men with more than 10 defenses, the other is Chong Pal Pak, with 15 defenses of the title. -Indonesian Suwarno had a reported 1-6 record when he won the title...in his fourth attempt at the belt. -An impressive 6 OPBF Middleweight champions have won world titles! These are Ki Soo Kim, who won the lineal Light Middleweight title, Jae Doo Yuh, who won the WBA Light Middleweight title, Chong Pal Park, who won the IBF and WBA Super Middleweight titles, In Chul Baek, who also won the WBA Super Middleweight title, Shinji Takehara, who won the WBA Middleweight title, Sam Soliman, who won the IBF Middleweight title, Sakio Bika, who won the WBC Super Middleweight title. -In March 1988 two former OPBF Middleweight champions clashed in a WBA Super Middleweight title bout! That was won by Chong Pal Park, who stopped Polly Pasireron in 5 rounds. -Daothong Singhpallop was stripped of the title in May 1959, then won the title back in July that year to become a 2-time champion. The Minimumweight division has often been over-looked by fans in the west, despite a huge number of amazing fights coming from the division since it was created in the 1980's. Likewise the WBO has also been on the end of fans ire since it was created, also in the 1980's. Today however we look to share some interesting facts about the WBO Minimumweight title.
-Amazingly 3 of the first 4 champions and 4 of the first 6, vacated the belt. -The second champion was from the UK, and 2 of the first 7 were from Europe -No fighter from the US has ever won the title. -The most defenses record is held by Ivan Calderon, who defended the title 11 times in total. No one else has double figures, with the nearest having been 6 defenses by Alex Sanchez. The most defenses by an Asian fighter is 4, by Donnie Neites -Having mentioned Alex Sanchez it's worth noting his first defense against the debuting Arturo Mayan, who's only recorded fight was his loss to Sanchez. -Alex Sanchez also notched 3 success T/KO1 wins in bouts for the title. They were his title win and first 2 defenses. -Husni Ray was the first Asian fighter to challenge for the title, losing a split decision in Indonesia to Rafael Torres in 1990. This was actually the only time the title was fought for in Asia until 2007, when Donnie Neites won it in the first all-Asian bout, beating Pornsawan Porpramook -The first Asian to win the title was Filipino Eric Jamili, who won the belt in the UK when he stopped Mickey Cantwell -Merlito Sabillo was the third Asian fighter to hold the title, and was the third from the Philippines. -There first Japanese fighter to hold the title was Katsunari Takayama, who is the only man to be a 2-time champion. -Between December 2014 and July 2018 there were 4 successive fighters from Japan, sharing a combined 5 reigns. These included Takayama, Kosei Tanaka, Tatsuya Fukuhara and Ryuya Yamanaka. -The most recent Asian champion with Vic Saludar, who managed to make just a single successful defense in his 13 month reign. -As of the first 62 title bouts there has been just a single draw, Merlito Sabillo's bout with Carlos Buitrago, and 3 technical decisions. -At the time of writing it is the only Minimumweight world title to have never been won by a Thai. Last week we looked at the PABA Heavyweight title, as part of this series, and we took the piss a little bit by poking fun at how rarely it's been held by Asian fighters and how it has seemingly been fought for all over the globe. In the interest of fairness we only felt it apt to look at the OPBF Heavyweight title, and see how that compared with the PABA belt as give you "Did you know.... the OPBF Heavyweight title".
-The first ever OPBF Heavyweight champion was Tongan Maile Haumona, who won the title in November 1982. Going into that title bout Haumona had a reported record of 11-12-1 (9). Haumona would only win bout after his title win and retire 13-18-1 (11) -Haumona won the title by stopping a Samoan fighter with an amazing name, Prince Larry Tattoo. Tattoo bizarrely never saw the final round of any bout he was in, going 3-4-1 (3), with his draw coming from a technical draw! -The second champion, Steve Aczel, was born in Hungary whilst the third champion and fourth champions Dave Russell and Dean Waters, were both from the UK. -None of the first 7 champions managed to score a successful defense. -The first champion to record a successful defense was Jimmy Thunder. Rather interestingly his defense was in Fiji, and only the second outside of Australia. -Toakipa Tasefa beat Justin Fortune for the vacant title in Japan, in what was the bout's first contest in Asia, rather than the Pacific region. Interestingly Fortune lost the PABA title due to this loss, though the belt wasn't on the line -Colin Wilson was the first 2-time champion -There has only been one draw in a title bout, that was the 1995 bout between James Grima and Bob Mirovic -At the time off writing the title has been featured in 41 bouts, of which 18 have taken place in Australia and 18 have taken place in Japan. The other countries to host title bouts are New Zealand (4) and Fiji (1). -With 9 title bouts Koarakuan Hall holds the record for the most title bouts held. -The most defenses of the title is 9, by Okello Peter, who held the title from March 2001 to September 2006. This gives the big Japanese based Ugandan the most defenses and the longest reign, in terms of time. Having had a bit of fun last week looking through the history of the PABA Lightweight title we thought we'd go through the weights this week and look at the even wackier history of the PABA Heavyweight title. Prior to being deactivated, when the WBA rid themselves off the PABA, the title had been held by a number of future word champions and was fought for a lomg way from Asia. Before we get started with this weeks "Did You Know...", we'll just quickly explain a little bit about the PABA. It was the Pan Asian Boxing Assocation and the idea was that it would be the WBA's answer to the well recognised, and successful, OPBF. The title doesn't currently exist, with the WBA moving away from the PABA when then re-named it's self before seemingly faded in to a black hole, but for a time it was seen as the secondary regional only to the OPBF belt. Of course, Heavyweights in Asia aren't a common thing, but that's hardly an excuse for some of the things we saw here. With that out of the way, let us bring you "Did you know... the PABA Heavyweight title" -The first ever fight for the PABA Heavyweight title was in....England! That's where future world champion Oleg Maskaev won the belt, stopping Russian born Kazakh Nikolay Kulpin. -The second man to win the title was Hungarian born British-Australian Joe Bugner, who won the title at the age of 46! He won the belt in 1996, 29 years after his debut and 23 after fighting Muhammad Ali! Amazingly Bugner would win the title for a second time in 1998 at the age of 48! -As mentioned Oleg Maskaev's first reign began in the UK, his second, in 1998, began in the US! He claimed the title a second time in Louisiana, when he blasted out Toakipa Tasefa inside a round. He would later defend the belt successfully in the US twice, before losing it to Canadian Kirk Johnson. Yes we had a Candian holding an Asian title, that he won in the USA! -American fighter Rob Calloway won the belt in 2005, and made a single defense, defending it back at home in the US! -Staying with non-Asian champions German based Cuban Juan Carlos Gomez won the belt in 2007. So too did did US based Nigerian Friday Ahunanya. -In the title's later years it was was fought for in the Czech Republic, Germany, Serbia, Montenegro and Chile, among other places. -During it's rather odd life span the title was held by a strong for future Heavyweight world title holders. There was Maskaev, as mentioned, along with Nikolay Valuev, Ruclsan Chagaev and Joseph Parker -Despite being the "Pan Asian" title the only Asian fighters to claim it were Oleg Maskaev, who was born in Kazakhstan and represented Uzbekistan as an amateur, and Ruslan Chagaev, who was Uzbek born fighter who later relocated to Germany. -In 2002 Nikolay Valuev defended the title in South Korea, beating a then 3-0 Taras Bidenko! This fight can be seen below! Newer fans to the Asian scene likely won't remember the PABA title, which was the WBA's answer to the OPBF. The title has been completely killed off in the last few years, being replaced by other affiliated WBA regional titles, but for around 20 yaers we would see PABA title fights on a regular basis, particularly in Thailand.
For today's Did you know... we look at the relatively short lived, yet rather notable, PABA Lightweight title, which was fought for through out Asia and had several notable champions, and contenders. -The first champion was future Mongolian world champion Lakva Sim! That alone is pretty notable but even more amazingly he won the belt in 4 rounds on his debut back in December 1998! So Sim, unlike most fighters, actually debuted in a 12 round regional title fight! -Whilst Sim holding it is pretty notable it was actually won by a number of Mongolian fighters. There was Sim, Zorigoo Sosorbaram and Sukhbayar Nemekbayar, the 1st, 3rd and 5th champions respectively. -The first 4 bouts for the title all ended with a stoppage, in fact 7 of the first 8 did! -Prawet Singwancha's 13 defenses of the title were the most, by far...in fact no one else had more than 2 defenses of the belt! -Despite being the "Pan Asia Boxing Association" title, it was once fought for in Germany! It was in the European country that German based Azeri fighter Azad Azizov won the belt. -Two future world champions have held the title at some point. There was Lakva Sim, as mentioned previously, and Eduard Troyanovsky -On the subject of Eduard Troyanovsky, he defended the title against a trio of Colombian fighters, Walter Estrada, Orlen Padilla and Luis Zambrano -In 2015 there was also an Argentinian trying to win the belt! That was Leonardo Esteban Gonzalez fought George Kambosos Jr for the "interim" title, and was stopped in 3 rounds. -One of the champions, relatively early in the title's lifespan, was David Kosawara. Kosawara, like Lakva Sim, won the belt on his debut, but would later blow up, and fought as heavy as 260lbs later in his career, almost double the Lightweight limit! -Ahmad Abbybastnov only recorded bout was in a PABA title fight. The Uzbek was stopped in 2 rounds when challenging Prawet Singwancha in 2002. |
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