Pearls of the Orient: The 20 greatest fighters to have come from the far East

Germans seem to love out and out robberies.

Japan's the home of the close, speculative decision (Jofre/Harada I & II!)

South America's the home of the "Ahhh **** it" draw.

 

Ahahhaa.

I disagree on Wonjongkam not belonging on that list.

It's a 20 fighter list. That's a lot of space and Wonjongkam's already...

Had 70 fights already. That's more than 95% of Eastern fighters in the past few decades and a bit more than Harda, who was active himself.

He's already been fighting for 14 years, and he's only 30 as of now. That means he started boxing, professionally, at the age of 16. His competition wasn't world class early on but he WAS fighting experienced fighters. NONE of them had anything approaching 0-0-0 records.

He's already won belts in two divisions.

Two of his three losses came early in his career, once again, when he was still a teen. Both to the same fighter who he later beat.

His careers really just taking off. He's still extremely active, and, again, only 30.

 

He very rarely fights outside of his country, especially against a world class fighter, and just recently lost when he did step up the comp in Japan and Naito.

A top 20 in time is no problem(probably assured) if he steps up the comp and takes a few more risks, but as of now, I'm a guy who rates competition higher than titles.

 

Same.

I just feel he belongs on the tail end of that list more so than some of the listed fighters, even now.

And how many Asian fighters DO fight outside of their countries?

Very few.

 

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Yeah, Yuri is considered Russian, otherwise I'd have called him out as a glaring omission from the beginning.

Harada should be above Kingpetch, and interesting that you have Chionoi over Ohba, and Moon off the list. Care to comment, especially on Kingpetch over Harada?

 

Galaxy is indeed too high. You can't really rate active fighters yet-since their body of work has yet to be completed, so I'd remove Pac, Chi, and Niida. (Probably wouldn't put Chi on it anyway.)

Ohba, Ebihara, and Masamori Tokuyama all warrant considerations.

Screw consideration in retrospect. They all warrant placement, period.

 

Tokuyama.

 

Yeah, be ashamed of yourself.:deal

 

Harada was fun to watch, but I have yet to see why people rate him so very highly.

Kingpetch has the two wins over Perez, who is arguably one of the finest three 112lbers ever. Also gained redemption and the crown against Harada and Ebihara.

Chionoi gets a lot of kudos for the brilliant performance against McGowan. Showed he to could rebound well, he never got that chance against Ohba who may or may not of turned out to be better than him.

Moon was an exciting face first fighter, a cult hero by most accounts in Korea, but he was limited technically and it cost him a place on my final list. Although by being an Honourable mention he was on an earlier draft.

 

The more I see of Galaxy the more impressed I am, honestly.