Filipino Boxing: Champs, Contenders, Prospects

Round 1: 10-9 Paciones

10-9 Paciones; feel-out round. Refugio very defensive so far. Paciones switches to orthodox since he couldn’t find a lot of openings with his original southpaw stance. More success after the switch.

 

Round 1: 10-9 Paciones
Round 2: 10-9 Paciones

20-18 Paciones; Refugio doesn’t look to be trying to win these rounds. Not a lot is being landed by either men but Paciones is trying to work. Refugio content with trying to avoid punches.

 

Round 1: 10-9 Paciones
Round 2: 10-9 Paciones
Round 3: 10-9 Paciones

30-27 Paciones; closer round with Refugio incorporating counter lefts but still a Paciones round.

 

Round 1: 10-9 Paciones
Round 2: 10-9 Paciones
Round 3: 10-9 Paciones
Round 4: 10-9 Paciones

40-36 Paciones; Refugio making this hard to watch but Paciones also needs to stop giving him respect.

 

Round 1: 10-9 Paciones
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Round 3: 10-9 Paciones
Round 4: 10-9 Paciones
Round 5: 10-9 Paciones

50-45 Paciones; Paciones upped the aggression a little bit and found a lot more success, especially to the body. Refugio doing nothing.

 

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Round 4: 10-9 Paciones
Round 5: 10-9 Paciones
Round 6: 10-9 Paciones

60-54 Paciones; Paciones is getting closer to landing something big. Will he get a stoppage or knockout? No idea with Refugio continuing to be all-pro defensively.

 

And Refugio quits on his stool after round 6….what a quit job and an embarrassing performance. Paciones did all he can to make this a fun fight and not a bad performance by him. The Vietnam-based Filipino prospect improves to 5-0, 4 KO and wins the WBA ASIA title at 108, which should give him a world ranking.

 

Hong Dat Vo wins a wide decision over Ernie Sanchez. Sanchez was at least trying, unlike Refugio, landing flush shots throughout the fight and even hurting the Vietnamese in the first round.

 

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Outside the ten best P4P Filipino fighters are a couple guys that could also make some noise at the world level:

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