Daud Yordan vs. Panya Uthok

Tomorrow in Bangkok. WBC Asian Boxing Council super lightweight Silver title on the line, Yordan's first defense.

Champion and challenger are only 34 and 32 years old respectively, but they both have lots of miles on the odometer. They are both also well above their peak weights at this point, with the Indonesian being a natural featherweight in his prime and his Thai opponent a natural bantam in his.

 

Oof - never mind. Just within the last 24 hours Daud tested positive for Covid and is going into quarantine, so this is tentatively expected to happen in June. They simply haven't yet updated BoxRec to remove it, although per the ZQ Skor article it seems the rest of the card is going through as planned with Ongen Saknosiwi vs. Rattakorn Tassaworn as the new main event.

 

Never been to Asia period. But yeah, I've heard tell. Muay Thai even crazier, no?

 

Even with the music sounds like a pretty fun time.

Yeah, combat sports in Thailand is like amoralistic capitalism brought to its outer reaches. Unfortunately that means a lot of exploitation of very young children (startlingly young to us in the West, but, cultural relativists will argue that we just don't get it and those arguments usually become circular affairs consisting of "well do you prefer those kids be in prostitution instead?" etc)

I know there are some Filipino katoey aficionados who might have a thought or two about that.

 

Didn't happen on March fourth. Is happening this Friday, however.

 

Wtf, we can't edit or delete our own polls anymore? Since when? Was going to change Uthok's nickname to his actual moniker rather than his ring name. (actually was going to put both if space allowed)

Phuengluang Sor Singyu aka
Ai-nu mud phuen khon (ไอ้หนูหมัดปืนกล)
"Machine Gun Kid"


Friendly mod help?

 

I swear we used to be able to delete our polls and/or edit the question and options. I've absolutely done both since no longer being a mod.