I agree with you. Muangsurin's ascent to a professional world title in just three fights is virtually unheard of.
Muangsurin wasn't blind then and he isn't blind now...he's suffering from dementia and who knows what else. I saw him last week and he's struggling to walk unassisted and looks thin but he has his sight.
Would that be Saman Sorjaturong? That guy was a banger. That being said, I wish there was more footage of Muangsurin avaliable.
He totally deserved to be named fighter of the year in '77 with 6 title defenses. I forget now who Ring mag called their FOTY and I remember being really annoyed for them overlooking Muangsurin. Definitely top dog that year for putting it on the line and against outstanding comp. Scartissue
Bump. Not sure if there was a thread devoted to this topic, but Maugsaurin died at the age of 58 recently. RIP.
R.I.P If anyone wants to see some more footage of him, I can have his title defense against Guts Ishimatsu uploaded to youtube.
Here are some of his kickboxing fights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8BGc5c7JE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udISXec8RHM
I would appreciate that as I enjoy your channel on Youtube and subscribe to you. The only footage I have seen of him as a professional boxer was his loss to Hearns. I enjoyed reading about him winning the world title in his third pro fight.
Some background info and a bit of stylistic analysis on him. https://www.thefight-site.com/home/the-specialist-saensak-muangsurin Also the legendary Sweet Pea was booted? That's a real shame, anyone know what happened?
Cool, cheers for this one Flea. From what I've seen of Saensak, which to be honest isn't as much as I'd like, he's a very imposing fighter without much craft. He was an aggressive, in-your-face type fighter who was an absolute unit and sand bag fists. I haven't seen the Mamby fight yet, but it's a SD, and we know about Mamby and decisions. Is it controversial?