ZongLi He vs. Diarh Wigan Gabutan & Li Yiran vs. Joe Booc Tejones RBR

This is for the WBC ABC Youth featherweight title (so a subordinate regional version of the same belt on the line in the Yiran vs. Tejones main event)

Kang enters 4-0, Agustian 5-0.

Someone's 0 has got to go!

 

Round 1

Agustian is putting up a high right jab springing from a relaxed seated crouch on the outside. Kang is taking a step in and weaving in jittery side to side motions, then leading with a jab from the hip, countered by a right hook from Agustian stepping around. Quick right hook, and Kang is down, glove brushed the canvas! Ref didn't see it or rule it a knockdown, though, and so Agustian just continues to move in on Kang, throwing in combination while he's still fuzzy-headed. Things settle down finally as Kang is able to circle out to ring center and stave Agustian off with some looping rights and left hooks. BIG exchange as they step together, Kang throwing a left hook but Agustian countering with a right hook & straight left and getting there first. Kang down again, this one ruled officially, the ref counting in his face. Kang's nose is BUSTED, pouring blood from both nostrils. Time in; Agustian jumps on Kang and unleashes a blistering flurry against him on the ropes. Kang needs to be rescued, the ref having a long hard look, maybe thinking about milking the clock to help Kang out, but finally commits the act of mercy jumping in.

KO1!

 

@Somachenko you were right, that was a HUGE step up that Kang simply wasn't ready for.

 

"Turbo" Agustian improves to 6-0 (6), and becomes the Asian Boxing Council Youth champ at 126lbs, claiming his first bit of hardware thirteen months and one day after his pro debut, and in his first bout outside his native Indonesia.

 

Your super-sleuthing lately has been very clutch, as I'm sure most of the rest of the diehards on the forum would agree!

 

Hey, give them a break, they're pretty new at this Western boxing thing.

Really before a few years ago when Arum took an interest and started building a presence in the Chinese market (and Zou Shiming turning pro to much fanfare, even though he turned out to be a flop in the pros as I predicted having noted his long gradual decline in the amateurs where he overstayed) the sport was barely even heard of there.

 

Yu Yougu vs. Songrit Ontha, 8 rounds @ featherweight

 

My only trade secret is finding the boxers' full names in their native language (ie not transliterated into the Roman alphabet, but using the characters of their mother tongue) and then just plugging those characters into either Twitter (sorted by "Latest") or Google with the "last hour" or "today" filter switched on. That's all, that's my go-to way to find stuff.

 

Yougu enters 4-1-1, having faced nothing but his countryman except for one previous Thai, beating him by UD in a 4-rounder.

Ontha, aka Yotnakrhop Mor Wattanachai, enters 2-0 (1) but with very spotty activity - debuting in January of 2016, and competing in his sophomore effort a year and a half later, eleven months ago.

 

Round 1

Yougu is having a difficult time dealing with the southpaw jab from Ontha, who is listed on BoxRec as orthodox but has proven very effective in the lefty stance early on here. Yougu is consistently drilled in the belly with counter jabs when he tries carrying in an overhand right, and when he approaches with his own left jab, he is sidestepped and caught on the chin with a line drive left hand cradled just below Ontha's sternum. Ontha grinning at his foe, confidently swinging a lead right hook and then swaying outside bent over backward at the waist to dodge Yougu's wild counters.

10-9 Ontha