I like look of this fight, it take place I'm about 6½ hours in Thailand. Winner gets rematch with Carlos Cuadras. Hopefully love up to expectation. Potential fight of year.
Damn I love that Thai! What a performance...Taka how'd you feel about Srisaket Vs Inoue? I think Srisaket is about the only fighter who is physically stronger than the Monster at 115
I tried but couldn't stay up late enough to catch this. :verysad Quality scalp for Wangek (or for anyone really; the only person to knock out Salgado previously was the underrated Goofy Montes, six years ago) - easily his best since Mukai a year and a half ago if not since Yota Sato over two years ago. Strange this was an eliminator. Wangek had fought nothing but tomato cans in between his loss to Cuadras (albeit controversial) and Salgado. :huh As for Salgado, he wasn't coming off any wins - absent from the ring for eight months since his own challenge of Cuadras, which like Wangek's ended prematurely on a cut, a technical draw in his case.
Nakornloung claimed they deserved a rematch due to the Cuadras bout, the WBC ordered an eliminator with Salgado, whose team had petitioned to get a rematch as well. The order was made at the end of last year (WBC convention in Las Vegas) and for whatever reason a deal took ages to reach. Srisaket decided to stay busy with fights until it was made. Thailand, as you know, is a world unto it's self with match making but effectively they don't get paid a lot so staying active is often a better idea than sitting twidling your thumbs. The long break between the WBC ordering the bout and the two getting it on is strange but it's not like it was an eliminator which came out of nowhere
Well even if you erase Wangek's last six wins so they're both just coming off their unsuccessful, inconclusive & disappointingly anticlimactic challenges of Cuadras, they still wouldn't necessarily deserve to jump into an eliminator together officially coming off a loss and draw respectively. :huh
A "controversial" loss >_> I suspect Srisaket deserved a rematch in fairness, Salgado was the WBC sticking their usual Mexican in... You go through the guys at 115lbs and it's not the strongest division, despite some EXCEPTIONAL champions. WBC rankings are- Sirsaket Salgado Oleydong Jaro Igarashi Takuma (who can't fight in a world title fight yet anyway) Orucuta Concepcion Morales Aquino Matsumoto (who isn't in the division any more) Villanueva Ishida Tunacao and Jimenez Not the best of eliminators but a decent bout on paper, and better than some of the other possiblities they could have given us...
From the moment he beat Sato I wanted more Srisaket. Will have to check this fight out but a great result for the Thai Fighter. Srisaket vs. Suriyan would have been epic a couple years ago.
