Enlightened-One wrote: ↑18 Sep 2018, 15:00
Boxing Prospect wrote: ↑18 Sep 2018, 12:28
Enlightened-One wrote: ↑18 Sep 2018, 12:21
What you’re essentially saying is this… nobody knows who this guy fought and you also admit to not knowing whether he’s world-rated or not (as per my words you highlighted in bold)?
He’s not rated by The RING, ESPN or BoxRec and I feel the rest of my thoughts on this guy are fairly accurate based on what little has been documented about him.
I suspect you haven’t seen this guy fight and (like me) you know absolutely nothing about him. And if this truly is the case, then why have you bothered to challenge the content of my post, since it seems very accurate?
You've not seen him? Well there's A LOT of footage of him out there, plenty of his fights here
http://www.asianboxing.info/videos/cate ... hitpattana
He's ranked #2 with the WBC, he was supposed to fight for the WBC Bantamweight title earlier this year, before the bout got got cancelled for financial or TV reasons. in France He's actually the mandatory for the winner of the Nordine Oubaali Vs Rau'shee Warren fight (which is expected to take place in October). I knew who he was, but thought it would be a better idea for you to fact check, rather than have me point out who he is.
He will, actually fight for the WBC title before Takuma Inoue gets a shot, despite Inoue beating Mark John Yap in a recent world title eliminator.
He's nothing spectacular, a basic southpaw, who often looks bigger than his opponents (growing frame and Thai's are notorious weight cutters). But he IS world ranked, and he HAS fought on A LOT of televised cards, his fights are EASILY available, and his skills are there to be criticised.
The sports governing bodies often rate title challengers that no one has ever heard of, whilst also possessing disgraceful resumes. It doesn't mean they're talented.
No one said he was talented, you stated he wasn't world ranked. When he is. You're now saying no ones heard of him, as if fans who actually follow the lower haven't heard of him when they have, because they follow these divisions.
There's at least 2 people in this thread who knew he was supposed to be fighting for a WBC title against Oubaali.
Not every fight fan sticks to what American and British TV gives us. Some of us do follow the Asian scene, and the lower weight scene. Some of us watched Tassana /Petch struggle past a then unheralded Jeson Umbal, or Jestoni Autida.
There are a number of people who were aware of him just because of his long unbeaten streak at such a young age.
We're going to see this type of thing a lot from the Thai's going forward, just like when Noknoi went on an insane 61-0 run before facing Ioka, and whilst limited the guy proved to be tough as hell.
It does look like Workpoint are using some quality control on their shows, but the other Thai channels have essentially got time buys with promoters. The shows are as much an advertisement of the sponsors as they are competitive bouts. That's how the fighters get paid. It's why we see guys like Wanheng fighting stay busy fights.