Wonjongkam fight today *spoiler*

Look at Chitalada when his physical prime had passed against Kittikasem. Difference being here is that Kittikasem was class and a demonic puncher. Pong has just been wasted by a near journeyman!

 

Not sure where either go from here to be honest.

 

RIP Pong. :-(

 

:yikes massive stoppage.

Boxing is the best.

 

Jaro got to be one of the worst ever true world champions.

 

WBC Flyweight lineage is abysmal anyway.

 

Delete

 

No doubt Teiken will be going all out to bring Jaro over for Toshiyuki Igarashi who won an eliminator late last year.

 

Shades of Battling Siki V's George Carpentier. Unless Wlad loses tomorrow this will be the upset of the year, Jaro obliterated him.

 

Fair play to Jaro though. He had to be confident and put the punches together.

Knowing the usual pattern with Thai fighters, he is now done. Finished. At the top level. And no, he wasn't as good as Sahaprom and Venice Bus Station would muller him. There's a thread on the classic today where he was touted as top ten for the weight. Madness.

 

Why do they maintain their constant weight cutting?

I mean, surely it can't be that big a deal to move up 3lbs, or 6lbs even..... or is it ''continue cutting to the lowest division possible until you absolutely can't make it anymore and/or get KTFO'' :think

 

It seems that way, and it's commonplace so I imagine it's promoter related. Something I need to dig deeper into on a case-by-case basis.

Also, it's pretty hard for them to cut weight. Samart Payakaroon for one, he was eating a load of rice before the Fenech fight (and partying) and had a horrific cut and took one of the worst beatings ever. And he was a defensive savant and, at that point, arguably the most versatile foffset on the planet.

Pone Kingpetch, right back in the day, was a big cutter, going to Fly. There was talks Ida move to Bantamweight as early as his defence against Ebihara, but it never happened. Sometimes he hit it (Perez II) sometimes he didn't (Harada I)

Khaosai was an absolute tank at super fly. Got out on top though. His brother Khaokor, more talented most definitely didn't, fainting in the 1st round in a defence against Espinosa. No punch landed for some time and he just dropped.

Chitalada supposedly cut about 20lbs, and the last few left him completely ****ed before stepping on the scale. As his career progressed it led to some stagnant performances, and late on his punch resistance seemed to evaporate, again, admittedly against a big puncher.

I think, probably, as a lot of these champs follow the pattern of consistently fighting against usually mediocre opposition, that the promoters just want their guy to look good so make them cut to gain an advantage. But it can make them drop off drastically quickly.

Wonjongkam looked a shot fighter IMO, in that he seemed to know wha he needed to do but just couldn't do it, and his legs were gone. For a while he's been less fluid in stepping back out of range and getting his counters off, and now it's clearly left him. IMO :good

 

i for one respect our new found leader


ALL HAIL JARO

 

****ING HELL just watched it. the ending is horrific

 

also...just so you know. thats the first win jaro has ever had outside the phillipines.for almost 11 years