Airing live on Thai Channel 7 from 1:45-3:45pm local time in Rangsit (2:45-4:45am EST) on Friday. So, for those of you puzzling over the math...about 27 hours from now. Nakoon (aka Satanmuanglek CP Freshmart) is officially 6-0 (3) in 2018, his sophomore year in the pros - but he was very nearly derailed early on, in January, when Indonesian journeyman Melianus Mirin pushed him to his limit, with the young Thai hanging on by a thread and eking out a 96-94 victory on my card (a bit wider on the official judges'). Rementizo, a 21 year old nominal southpaw who can switch-hit, is perhaps his biggest step up to date, or tied with Mirin - but has shown durability issues, as seen here when he was upset by late sub Mark Jeshuel Bonifacio in a fight where he was supposed to be the A-side prospect this past May: This content is protected
Nakoon defended his WBC ABC minimumweight title (his 3rd defense) with a close UD over Rementizo. Scores were 97-93 and 96-94 x2.
The real gem of the card was the co-main between 49 year old Italian light heavyweight and blown up Thai middleweight Don Parueang which ended with a violent KO.
Yeah that result caught my eye because it was a 10-0 guy being upset by a like 6-2 guy, so weird, not what I was expecting when I clicked on their names...the "upsetter" is like 36 and the "unbeaten prospect" is pushing 50.
You stayed up to watch it @Somachenko ? Those super early Thai cards are just so tough...2:45-4:45am EST is a brutal slot.
I’m three hours behind you so it’s a little more palateable for me. They end around 1:45AM which is around the time I sleep anyways so it usually works out. The Russian and Japanese cards are the ones that usually kill me.
I’ve been seeing both their names on random Thai cards over the last few months so I had been dying to see them televised against anyone because I figured it would be a trainwreck, then low and behold, they’re matched together. I was waiting close to a month to watch that fight for some weird perverse reason because I thought it’d be hilarious. It actually turned into a decent fight with the comparatively young Thai putting in what I’d presume was the performance of his life.
Yeah because he was the first guy in eleven bouts that actually fought Daghio, and it probed lethal: This content is protected ...goddamn unscrupulous Thai commissions strike again.
I don’t know who to place the blame on there, at a certain point I would’ve hoped he realized what his physical limitations truly were but that’s a ****ing travesty regardless and truly very sad.
