New article interviewing Jung Koo Chang on his career. 'In his prime, Jung-Koo Chang was a force of nature, a 108-pound wrecking machine. He one of the greatest fighters to ever come from South Korea. In the 1980s, he held the junior flyweight division record of 16 defenses. Chang was born in Busan, South Korea, on February 4, 1963. He was the youngest of five children from a poor family. “When I was a child, I always fought my friends and also played soccer,” Chang told The Ring through Tomoyuki Kataoka. “I became interested in boxing in 1975, when I watched a fight between Ben Villaflor and Hyun-Chi Kim. “I decided to do boxing and joined a boxing gym called Busan Far East General Gym, on August 11, 1975.” Incredibly Chang never fought an amateur contest and made his professional debut as a 17-year-old in November 1980. He won his first 18 bouts, notably besting former WBC titlist Amado Ursua. His promoter was able to tempt the silky smooth WBC beltholder Hilario Zapata to South Korea, in September, 1982. The two fought on near-even terms but Zapata retained his title by razor-thin split decision. Six months later, a weight-drained Zapata returned to South Korea and this time Chang demolished the future Hall-of-Famer in three blitzkrieg rounds. It was understandably his proudest moment in boxing. “When I won the WBC light flyweight championship at the age of 20,” he said. “They did a parade of cars in my hometown, Busan.” Full: https://www.ringtv.com/578716-best-i-faced-jung-koo-chang/
Pretty cool that Yuh helped ring to translate this as well. I like to check these out from time to time. But....morlocks is not going to be pleased to see another Chang thread lol
I get it. He doesn't think highly of Chang. He doesn't have to comment about it on every single thing about him.
I liked it. I thought the yuh connection was cool and understand Gonzalez being his best. Like I said Zapata was finished the rest were not that good. Chang was great but had no worthy adversaries until Gonzales and co after he came back. I just think you guys way overrate him. I find Yuh to be way mre exciting. I have both their sets and Gushiken Khosai Johnson(who despite what fleabag says really was a monster). I did love Changs honesty. I followed him from the beginning thro Koizumi. Without studying Joe Koizumi's work, you ain't studying asian/oriental boxing.
Does this mean that you don’t find Chitalada x’s 2 Torres x’s 3 Tokashiki or even Ursua/Lopez as high quality opponents? Because if so this time I would be the one who is bamboobalized
Not particularly. Weak non hitters in a weak made up division for those that couldnt cut it at Flyweight. Just like supermiddle was for fat lazy middles and lightheavies who couldnt cut it. Mediocrity vs mediocrity can be good. But not great as in the fighter vs a real great.
