The close fights of Pone Kingpetch

Kingpetch did very well against Harada in the rematch. I only had Harada up by a couple of points from the rounds I saw.

The second Ebihara fight on the other hand, I had wide for Ebihara (by 5 points) and Kingpetch would have had to have done something really drastic to have an argument to win that one.

Burruni shut Kingpetch out.

I haven't scored Seki-Kingpetch but it seemed really close to me from what I've seen. Likewise the first Perez fight was tight and probably could have justifiably gone to Kingpetch from what I've seen of it.

 

Yeah, I actually think Kingpetch did well in the Perez fights, especially considering the reputation they uphold as robberies. Perez, of course, was way past his best.

 

Perez had already shown issues with tall stand-up fighters against yaoita, incidentally.He was past his best, but still more or less an excellent\great fighter for the first bout at least.Somewhat comparable to Canto vs Park in that respect imo.

I didn't think Kingpetch looked particularly past it againt Burruni though i have to say.It just looked to me like he had a lot of issues getting to grips with Burruni's slick crafty headmovement and upperbody angles + awkward unorthodox looping punches.Pone's jab and straight shots were still thrown sharply and he was elegantly balanced as usual.Maybe another case where he would have improved in a rematch, had he not opted to retire.

 

All good points....as always.

 

Chionoi did better with Burruni even from the short footage I have of it. And the Italian looked slippery there as well, Kingpetch was too methodical to get much done against him I guess.

 

Yeah, Burruni seemed to go off the boil as soon as he finally picked up the world title.He gave a great performance against Kingpetch, though i wonder if it came a bit too late for him.It might well have been a dedication thing as well, i don't really know enough about sal to say.

 

think pone just too quick for worn out perez. lucky his return goes with harada, ebihara were in beautiful down town thailand.

 

And yet the press felt the 'weird' decision was in the Seki bout, in Japan. And Kingpetch said he didn't mind, and that he'd defend his title there again.

He definitely had backing. The King of Thailand was (and remains, despite ill health) a massively influential figure. And he had a 'friend' in highly influential all round boxing scribe and official Nat Fleischer.

None of this takes away from Kingpetch gritting his way through some of the best fighters Fly has ever produced, most likely pretty weight drained through most of his prime I imagine, talked of moving to Bantam early in his first reign IIRC. Little power. A mish mash of skillset.

Not one of the greatest, but a quality fighter to even take rounds off some of the guys he did. The 2nd Perez fight was in L.A. He was not just a hometown fighter.

 

Bump, interesting thread

 

Lot of good names of old posters in this one. Lot of collective knowledge there. Addie, sweetscientist, lora, all those guys.

Raging_Bull was a great guy too, bought some DVD's off him. Really nice guy, and extremely knowledgeable.

 

Flea's Thai fetish added some amazing insight into this thread.