Myung-Woo Yuh?

How many title defences did he rack up in the end?

 

Geez.

A good fighter though I would of liked to have seen him unify. He could of made more of an effort to fight the likes of Choi or Koo Chang.

 

Yeah you see it increasingly in the lower divisions, and unfortunately it tends to lead to those guys being a bit over-rated like Galaxy as you mentioned.

I mean even the great 'Finito' Lopez seemed content to sit on his WBC belt for a long time, and only unified and then stepped up towards the end of his career.

I wonder why that happens amongst the lower divisions it's strange.

 

i have never once heard of this fighter thanks for posting this up and letting me learn of one more fighter..and i think your right they just like to take a belt and rack up the wins and pay days..it kind of puzzles me but i think its due to the fact that fighters dont want to go to their country and they dont want to leave so unless say to south koreans win belts they wont ever unify

 

Yeah I see your point about them not wanting to leave their own country, but that's what particularly disappointed me about Myung-Woo, was that Choi and Koo Chang were both champions during his reign I believe and both were Korean yet he still made no attempts to unify.

 

yeah that is what makes it puzzling in Korea that would have been a massive pay day..but i also think that can be explained by the korean commish or whoever runs boxing rather have multiple champs than 1 with 3 belts

 

Great fighter, fought only twice outside of his country, both times in Japan against Ioka. Wonder why, though.

And I thought towards the end of his career, Lopez did unify the title.

 

Good job Russell, I've never even heard of this guy until this thread. Any idea what kind of fighter he was?

 

Woo was a very good fighter, one of my favourites actually. He had a great chin, a solid two fisted attack and he was always in spartan shape as well which allowed him to keep up a high pace in many of his fights, a pace which most of his foes couldn`t match down the stretch.

He was also a good combination puncher and would regularly throw several punches in a row to both head and body very accurately, rarely wasted or missed a punch did Woo. With his solid chin he coud afford to take a few punches sometimes in order to get inside and start punching... the Korean crowd would always go nuts when he did that!

His quality of opposition was not outstanding though but to his credit he defeated most of his opponents in dominant fashion and the few men who ran him close such as Joey Olivo and Leo Gamez for instance were also defeated clearly imo albeit in closely contested fights.

I think he gives anyone at or near his weight a hard fight, and had he and Chang met in the ring I think Woo would have had a good shot at beating him in a great fight. By the way, Woo`s fight against Oh-Kon Son is one of the best action fights you will ever see, great fight.

 

I've actually heard that he was a full level below a guy like Chang, though a very tough fighter.