Ch3 SD: Anurak Thisa vs. Jay-Ar Claveria Magboo RBR

This is for the vacant World Boxing Association Asia featherweight title.

 

I've figured out what Nop's face reminds me of, finally. Sort of like if you took Dante Basco's face and let Mike Tyson smash it repeatedly with a frying pan during a blind rage on PCP.

 

Round 1

Glove touch at the bell. Magboo is jogging in and out, sticking the jab. Thisa is just standing pat and blocking for now. Thisa looks the larger-framed man, very thick between the shoulders, even though he is the one technically moving up for this (having previously fought most of his career @ super bantam; Magboo's last two contests have been up at lightweight). Magboo is busier, rocking back and forth on the ball of his lead foot and putting in jabs on the sternum and right crosses up on the hair line. Thisa begins to counter with his own jab but falls short as Magboo is pulling out. 1-2 by Thisa, ducked. Jab up top by Magboo, batted down on the underside of Thisa's right forearm.

10-9 Magboo

 

With the salt and pepper hair? Yeah, he looked totally out of place, yeah. He kept glancing over at the fat old Thai midget speaking but I couldn't tell if he actually understood the language or was just being polite.

 

Current temp in Bangkok: 95°F

That is seventeen degrees hotter than in Magboo's hometown of Baco at this very same moment. No wonder they both look sort of sluggish in there. Sweltering.

 

Round 2

Thisa works his way in past the lumpy Magboo jab and hooks the body. Thisa keeps slashing into the ribs with the left hook and pushes Magboo into the ropes. Chopping right from Thisa, setting up a double left upper-hook into the lungs, putting Magboo down. He tries beating the count at eight but the ref waves it off anyway.

TKO2!!

 

You can tell by the glisten on everybody's foreheads that whatever automobile showroom in which they've set up this makeshift ring and surrounded with seats has no air conditioning.

Fly a guy in, make him stand there sweating his balls off while the whole card-passing and speech-making rigamarole goes on, and then have your fighter do nothing for a round to let the unsuspecting opponent find himself like a bug caught in flypaper, unable to figure out why he feels like passing out after just three minutes' worth of light jabbing, and then YAY! KNOCKOUT! FOR MAKE GLORY OUR THAI HEROES!

 

I guess, but...Thais be xtra-shady. We been knowing this.

 

All that being said, credit where due, they were some nice body shots - and Thisa may well have destroyed Magboo in just the same manner if JR were at 100% and didn't have the deck stacked against him.

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But...eh. Why they gotta be like this?