Pongsaklek Wonjongkam loses against Daisuke Naito?

boxbox · Jul 18, 2007

RZA said:

Scott Mallon: Lets move on to Vic Darchinyan. He has publicly stated he doubts your willingness to fight him. His promoter, Gary Shaw, has also stated that a $250,000 purse is not a problem and if youre truly sincere about willing to fight his man, your promoter knows his phone number and can easily get in touch with him. Do you think a fight with Vic Darchinyan will ever happen?

Pongsaklek Wonjongkam: I would like to fight him but this is for my manager and promoter to decide. Boxing is a business and its much easier for me to fight in Japan than America. Television rights, options, travel, money - Im a fighter and my job is to train, to fight and to win. My promoters job is to take care of the business side of boxing.

Scott Mallon: Cant you tell your promoter you want to make the fight though?

Pongsaklek Wonjongkam: Like I said, this is my promoters job, not mine. I would like to prove myself to the fans in America and Im sure a fight between Darchinyan and me would be exciting. The promoter is my boss though and like I said, he handles the business of my career. Ill fight anyone he tells me to.

(It should be noted that in Thai culture, the fighter has little to no say in deciding who he fights. In most cases there are no written contracts between the fighter and his promoter and fighters rarely challenge their promoters and managers business practices. A fighter calling his own shots is a foreign concept to Thai fighters. Instead, they view themselves as an employee and the promoter as their boss.
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i agree, sad that these boxers are being used like this, but sometimes you cant help but think that in that place, a lot of controversial results always seem to happen, and because of this, it lessens your sympathy.

tays001 · Jul 18, 2007

Boom_Boom said:

dont you guys see a trend here,

first it was Arce, then Darchiniyan now Wonjongkam.
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:happy :happy :happy finaly

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