Highland Boxing Gym Promotions: Toshihiko Era vs. Pradish Anbuchezhian RBR

Geisler Ap, despite being 41 years old with a perfectly symmetrical record of 17-17-2 (14 wins by KO and 14 losses by KO) is the WBC Asian Continental titlist, and probably the favorite here.

Win Tun Oo, from Myanmar, the ponytailed fat man, is 0-5. All early stoppage losses.

 

Feels like a question of when, not if, Ap stops Oo.

 

...and the answer is, 5 seconds after I post that.

Half a minute into R2.

 

Ari Agustian vs. Ratthaphum Ngambaisri, 8 rounds @ super welterweight

 

GODDAMN!

Agustian barrels into Ngambaisri with nasty right hooks to body and head and drops him in the first ten seconds. Another knockdown soon after finishes it. Whole fight lasted 27 seconds!

KO1!

 

Hoang Hiep Le vs. Kung Srirupramat, 4 rounds @ bantamweight

 

HHL pounds away with hooks on the body, doubling Srirupramat over and ultimately forcing him to his knees inside a minute.

This won't last much longer.

Yep, right uppercut on the body, another knockdown. Doesn't seem like Srirupramat really wants to continue but he does. Third body shot knockdown almost immediately and YET AGAIN the ref allows it to keep going. Srirupramat down again, finally over. Jeez, was about to mark down a ridiculous 10-6 or 10-5 or whatever score.

KO1!

 

This is like a bizarro version of the usual Thai pro boxing card, where the deck is always stacked in favor of the record-padding domestic prospects against hopeless undersized/old/inactive foreigners.

The matchmaker must be living out some anti-patriotic cuck fantasy, because it's been all Thais getting wrecked as the B-side... and now the main event is about to not feature any Thais.

 

Toshihiko Era vs. Pradish Anbuchezhian, 10 rounds @ flyweight

 

Alright, you guys...let's talk about Toshihiko Era. This man is FASCINATING.

First of all, he's 50 years old. He made his pro debut in 1994. He retired two years later after becoming paralyzed and having a slew of health conditions that left him unable to walk unassisted.

Fast-forward exactly two decades, and he un-retires in 2016 (licensed in Thailand, as the JBC refused despite his successful physical rehab) and has posted a respectable 23-3-1 record since. He's coming off a stoppage of former world title challenger Komgrich Nantapech.

Buddy and sparring partner of Katsunari Takayama.

He's an elementary school teacher.

He runs charities supporting homeless people & cats.

He has three different nicknames: Iron Man, Samurai, and (the one he's announced by today) Panda.

Oh, and he's a direct lineage descendant of Tenmu Ōama, the 40th emperor of Japan.

 

...and Pradish Anbuchezhian is some 23 year old dude from India.

 

Round 1

Anbuchezhian is rowing out his southpaw jab. Era ducks and plants a left jab on the belt line. Anbuchezhian tries a massive telegraphed right hook, dragging it up from by his lead knee. Stepping back into the ropes, Era lands a pull-counter right hand and down goes Anbuchezhian!

Commentator going apopleptic - can't tell if he is having a heart attack or an orgasm.

TKO1!!

 

Era improves to 27-4-1 (22)

Successful second defense of both the Asian Boxing Federation Flyweight and World Boxing Foundation Asia Pacific Flyweight titles.

 

Era says he wants a world title shot.

He's a damn good fighter for fifty but...yikes. You have one champ in the division that's literally half his age (Olascuaga), then a pair of his countrymen that are seventeen years younger in Kenshiro Teraji and Masmichi "Yabuki" Satō.

 

Twelve matches in two hours must be some kind of record. Between the many blitzkrieg first round blowouts, and the speed with which they kept transitioning from one into the next, no standing on ceremony...