Wednesday's main event - airing live on Main Event - in Wollongong. Twelve rounds at super bantamweight, in a world championship eliminator for the right to face undisputed divisional king Naoya Inoue. Goodman is currently Inoue's mandatory #1 contender in both the IBF and WBO rankings, and #7 in the WBC. Luangphon is slotted just behind Goodman at #8 in the WBC rankings. Somebody's proverbial "OH" in the L-column has got to go!* *barring a draw or NC This will be the second time being scheduled the sport's maximum distance for the Siamese visitor, and the fourth time for the local NSW hero. Neither man has ever fought outside not only their native country but their region of birth (New South Wales and Central Thailand respectively). Goodman has been quietly building up a solid record at home, defeating the likes of TJ Doheny, Juan Miguel Elorde, and fellow unbeaten prospects Raeese Kaleem Aleem and Zhong Liu. As you'd expect with his nationality, Luangphon's record is padded with a good many novices but he does boast a pair of victories over pretty big-name countrymen - albeit much smaller and older than him - in Panya "Pungluang Sor Singyu" Uthok and Suriyan "Kompayak Porpramook" Sathorn. Card starts at 3:30am EST/5:30pm local time (AEST).
Liam Wilson vs. Youssef Dib in the co-headliner. Dib missed weight by ¾lb on his final attempt (initially 61.62kg, returned and was only able to shave off forty grams)
Prelims on Fox Australia from 3:30am EST / 5:30pm AEST; main card PPV from 5am EST / 7pm AEST on Main Events & Kayo PPV.
Worawut had 250 contests in Muay Thai before turning pro in Western style boxing. You can see a lot of that imprint on the way he fights (especially the clinch-push-strike and trot away motif). Goodman on the other hand puts together punches in a very clinical manner designed to inflict pain, drawing on more than a hundred amateur bouts where he pretty much ran the domestic tables winning four national titles.
Lol.. of course it’s a real place.. it’s just over an hour drive from Sydney.. home of a good university and surrounded by suburbs with some of the most beautiful beaches in the world!
And admittedly it is super hypocritical of us Americans to knock how silly some of the Australian indigenous names sound, when we have places like Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (or, Lake Chaubunagungamaug for short) all over. That one's in my home state, just an hour from Boston.
There's a town in Scotland called Kirkcudbright which is pronounced kur-koo-bree for some bizarre reason. Gaelic names make even less sense. And Welsh town names are all just tongue twisters where random letters don't act the way they should.
