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Over the last couple months PNG boxing has been staging shows and looks to be emerging as a popular sport.

Most of the cards feature boxers on debut but there appears to be a bit of talent there, the 2006 commonwealth games seems to have done PNG boxing the world of good, as a couple of there fighters reached the quarter finals.

Tyrone Tongia born in PNG is scheduled to fight there later this year against chavas Kora 1-0 who had a respectable amateur career and reached the Q/f of the commonwealth Games.

some fighters to look out for;Francis Oaike who debuted fighting a phippino with a record of 11-1-2 and won, he was scheduled to fight Fred Mundraby.

Vincent Kora debuted fighting Nico Torirri 27-15 and won by KO.
Rickson Yamo, Q/F at the games and 3-0-1 as a pro.

Good to see the sport developing in PNG.

Maybe we will see some of the PNG boys here in Australia soon.

Brad Vocale has been doing his bit as ref for the cards.

Hounddawg wrote:Over the last couple months PNG boxing has been staging shows and looks to be emerging as a popular sport.

Most of the cards feature boxers on debut but there appears to be a bit of talent there, the 2006 commonwealth games seems to have done PNG boxing the world of good, as a couple of there fighters reached the quarter finals.

Tyrone Tongia born in PNG is scheduled to fight there later this year against chavas Kora 1-0 who had a respectable amateur career and reached the Q/f of the commonwealth Games.

some fighters to look out for;Francis Oaike who debuted fighting a phippino with a record of 11-1-2 and won, he was scheduled to fight Fred Mundraby.

Vincent Kora debuted fighting Nico Torirri 27-15 and won by KO.
Rickson Yamo, Q/F at the games and 3-0-1 as a pro.

Good to see the sport developing in PNG.

Maybe we will see some of the PNG boys here in Australia soon.

Brad Vocale has been doing his bit as ref for the cards.

Yeh Brad has been going over there for the past year or so, He has been running Workshops for the officials and helping with there fightcards etc.
I think he is also doing the same thing in Fiji? I might be wrong though it could be Somoa etc . Its one of them Country's.
It will be great in a few years once these guys get 10-12 fights under there belts. It will be good for this region as there will be more opossition.
It is good of Brad to do it as he is paving the way for boxing in them country's.

Yeah Ben it was my thoughts as well, the region needs to have more strength, in a couple of years it will be interesting to see how it all turns out?

Well done Brad.

Event Polynesia based in South Auckland and a promotions team to look out for. They are really starting to build up a nice base of Samoan boxers and will be ding regular shows there shortly. They will also be holding 3 shows a year in Auckland. Apparently they had 250 local youngsters turn up at a muster wanting to get into boxing.

Nice thread dawg, its alwasy good to highlight stuff like this

Melanesians are very good natural talents and the locals do love watching boxing; I've seen it for myself in Vanuatu. The region just needs someone with enough money and organisational skills to tap the potential. PNG is a rough place but does have a decent-sized capital with a fair expat population too, and is geographically between Asia and the islands, so it's as good a place as any in Melanesia to give it a go.

oliverfennell wrote:Melanesians are very good natural talents and the locals do love watching boxing; I've seen it for myself in Vanuatu. The region just needs someone with enough money and organisational skills to tap the potential. PNG is a rough place but does have a decent-sized capital with a fair expat population too, and is geographically between Asia and the islands, so it's as good a place as any in Melanesia to give it a go.

I think so too, one thing good that will come out of it is active fighters.

With free to air TV starting up here in Australia, more coverage, and more promotions will be essential, so ultimately there needs to be more boxers.

Its great what Brad is doing there. Along with the PNG boxing comission. Give them 5-10 years and i reckon they will have some world class fighters coming out of there.

They had a bad setback last week with a fighters death. But that is a sad part of Boxing. It can happen to any fighter at any stage of there careers.

Hounddawg wrote:

oliverfennell wrote:Melanesians are very good natural talents and the locals do love watching boxing; I've seen it for myself in Vanuatu. The region just needs someone with enough money and organisational skills to tap the potential. PNG is a rough place but does have a decent-sized capital with a fair expat population too, and is geographically between Asia and the islands, so it's as good a place as any in Melanesia to give it a go.

I think so too, one thing good that will come out of it is active fighters.

With free to air TV starting up here in Australia, more coverage, and more promotions will be essential, so ultimately there needs to be more boxers.

I agree mate, Things are looking up for Aus boxing. With free to air competing against Fox. There should be more money for Promoters which in turn should mean more money to fighters.

Jeff Malcolm is in PNG and training a few of the boys over there. Good to see someone who knows so much about boxing putting in and helping those blokes out. Next card in PNG on the 26th of July.

fox wrote:Jeff Malcolm is in PNG and training a few of the boys over there. Good to see someone who knows so much about boxing putting in and helping those blokes out. Next card in PNG on the 26th of July.

Thats good to hear. Once they get a few fights under there belts it will be great for Boxing in this part of the world.

Umm, do you think some of these matchups maybe premature on the second card.
Heath Stentons not retired, good to see.
Curious to hear peoples thoughts.


http://www.boxrec.com/schedule.php?coun ... &SUBMIT=Go

Hounddawg wrote:Umm, do you think some of these matchups maybe premature on the second card.
Heath Stentons not retired, good to see.
Curious to hear peoples thoughts.


http://www.boxrec.com/schedule.php?coun ... &SUBMIT=Go

I worry for the safety of Chavas Kora. He's up first againt Omongos, who is heaps better than his record states (remember his win over Ahmed Elomar) and then backs up against the Cyclone. I just looked up the term "thrown in the deep end" in the dictionary and got his Bio.

toppity wrote:

Hounddawg wrote:Umm, do you think some of these matchups maybe premature on the second card.
Heath Stentons not retired, good to see.
Curious to hear peoples thoughts.


http://www.boxrec.com/schedule.php?coun ... &SUBMIT=Go

I worry for the safety of Chavas Kora. He's up first againt Omongos, who is heaps better than his record states (remember his win over Ahmed Elomar) and then backs up against the Cyclone. I just looked up the term "thrown in the deep end" in the dictionary and got his Bio.

I agree Amongos victorys have generally been against good opposition Elomar, Konofski ect, theres already been a death so early in there redevelopment, and those guys on the last card from Australia don't need to fight boxers that green.