Pathinya Phumidet vs. Frengky Rohi RBR

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...First up, Something CP Freshmart (real name unknown, is a southpaw and might hold a minor WBC trinket, or is vying for a vacant one here...going on very skimpy info roughly translated from a couple of Thai sites; nothing about this card is up on BoxRec as of now) vs. Indonesian guy with dreadlocks, 8 rounds @ ??

 

10-9 CP Freshmart

 

The source providing me with the undercard info has it as:

"Power CP Freshmart" vs. "Donkey Kong", allegedly Indonesian, over 8 rounds at indeterminate weight

"Small-Town CP Freshmart" vs. "Peak of the Battle", allegedly Indonesian, over 8 rounds at indeterminate weight

"Victory CP Freshmart" vs. "Khun Keeree", allegedly Indonesian, over 8 rounds at indeterminate weight

...and finally the main event, a 10-rounder in Phumidet's 2nd defense of his WBC Youth super flyweight title.

I'll recognize Phumidet (and I think Rohi) when they are in the ring but until then I'm flying blind and just guessing. The graphics Ch.7 are flashing don't help, since I don't speak Thai...and the lettering on the boxers' trunks isn't their names, just adverts for the sponsors.

It doesn't help that I can't find a corresponding BR page for ANY of the six combatants listed for the undercard. None of the local guys box under their real names, just their sponsored ones - and the Indonesians are pretty bad about having goofy aliases, too (except they're not whoring themselves out, just being silly). I've scanned the entire host of active Indonesian boxers (there aren't many, just 153 - you can view them by pulling up the national p4p rankings page) and none of their names sound anything even remotely close to "Donkey Kong" or "Khun Keeree"...and who knows whose nickname is "Peak of the Battle" (or something kind of like that, roughly Google-translated into English, from Thai...in turn, probably a bad translation from Indonesian...)

Watching these cards is very frustrating. Especially because they're usually chock full of mismatches anyway (green Thai prospects with or without cracker-jack titles usually all being fed the dregs of another particular country up and down the bill, alternating between the Philippines, Indonesia, etc.)

But somehow they keep me coming back.

 

Dreadlocks Guy hasn't won a round nearing the halfway point but he's lively, doing his best "American slickster" impersonation, ducking & weaving, shoulder-rolling a bit a times, jogging around playfully tossing pit-pat flurries off the jab at the cagey southpaw - who seems to be giving him a lot of respect even though neither has demonstrated much pop - before slipping about half of his counters flashily (but getting cleanly hit with the other half, thus losing very clearly)

 

I have identified Dreadlocks Guy. (he's the one they had listed as "Donkey Kong"...his real name is Domi Nenokeba...)

So this is probably flyweight.

So the CP Freshmart, by process of elimination, must be Chawalit Sodchuan aka Petchchawalit CP Freshmart. (wasn't too difficult; Thailand only has 10 active flyweights )

Sodchuan took a unanimous decision.

This is too much ****ing work for 2am!!

 

Working on piecing together who is who in the other undercard bouts...

The opponent called "Khun Keeree" is actually Phum Kunmat (who is Thai by nationality, but may be of Indonesian descent I guess) aka "Khunkhiri Wor Wisaruth".

So that means "Victory CP Freshmart" is probably a Thai featherweight...

 

So ****ing ridiculous, this stuff.

If my gf were to wake up right now to pee and saw me sitting here biting my lip in frustration and watching a choppy stream of tiny Asian dudes (at least if we're lucky, during about 12% of the airtime on these broadcasts...the rest is elderly Siamese businessmen talking into a large phallic cardioid mic in a monotone, presumably about boxing, or taking drawn-out turns bowing in the middle of the ring while an emcee prattles on with plaudits, telling us whatever exactly makes them special) I would have no reasonable explanation. She'd be like "you look pretty upset, is whatever you're doing worth it?" and the answer would be "I'M NOT SURE!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

Okay, no confusion about this, main event is up now.

(after this I'll probably bail out to go to bed; if any other suckers care to spend their wee hours watching random tiny Asian men hit each other and puzzle over their identities, by all means, you're welcome for the stream...but no RBR for the swing bouts, at least not from me...)

"IN THE RED CORNER...SIIIIIING-SAYAT!"

...and then a weird little early 20th century American style marching band interlude from a ****ing orchestra they have set up at ringside.

Thai people you are so bat-shit crazy, I can't with you.

 

The ring announcer was also considerate enough to enunciate "SOUP-AH FLAY-WHEAT!" and "DUB-A-YEW BEE SEE!" - but I already had recognized Phumidet standing in the ring doing his insane unnecessary humiliatingly tedious duty of passing advertisement cards from old men to different old men flanking either side of him...plus then recognized his fake-name.

 

Pathinya Phumidet vs. Frengky Rohi, 10 rounds @ super flyweight

 

Round 1

Phumidet is scoring jabs at will on the forehead of Rohi. Phumidet starts to fire a right cross after every two jabs. Rohi getting drilled, stunned, but manages to recover instantly each time and keep moving. Not much creative offense from the challenger, ducking in after waiting his turn and looping wide body shots. Phumidet able to drop his elbows to intercept them and counter with short blistering straight combos up & down the middle-foreground of Rohi's skull, from mohawk to jaw roundtrip.

10-9 Phumidet

 

Round 2

Phumidet mixing in some nice left hooks with his 1-1-2 attack, turning over his "3" with nice technique - and hurting Rohi with each one. Phumidet scoring hooks on the body as well. Rohi fends him off with a lumpy double jab and casts his line desperately with some fly-fishing right hands. Phumidet easily backpedals clear of harm's way and moves back into range to score his own body shot. Phumidet cracks Rohi across the face with a long stinging right from outside at the bell.

10-9 Phumidet

20-18 Phumidet

 

Round 3

Phumidet is walking through Rohi's double backfoot jab, letting it careen off his forearms, unworried about it getting through (or anything else Rohi lays in his path, for that matter). Phumidet is rocking his weight between his feet and digging in the heel to propel himself with his shots. Lots of power on those body hooks. Rohi taking a pummeling. Rohi doing his best to slug it out with Phumidet and manages to score a few blows tossing himself forward to drive Phumidet into the ropes. Knife-edge chops and hits on the break from Rohi, milking every drop of whatever brief minor advantage he might be perceived as having.

10-9 Phumidet

30-27 Phumidet