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Snips and Snipes July 19, 2018: Super Weekend for Filipino Boxing
By Eric Armit
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, Jul 20, 2018
Mannys returns and everything is fine in the world, and not quite. However, Pacquiaos wins Lucas Matthysse was the best result for boxing. The Filipino is still a major player. I hope we can forget a comeback with Floyd Mayweather Jr and even if I do not rule out, I do not see Pacquiao wanting to get back on the pitch against Jeff Horn. Errol Spence, Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia would jump on the spot and fight Pacquiao anywhere, anytime. If that could be done, Terrence Crawford would be a big fight but not a good choice for Pacquiao. Just too hard a request for Pacquiao at 39. Pacquiao is talking about two maybe three more fights including one at the end of this year. If you watch Spence, Thurman, Garcia and Crawford, then you look at lesser-known names like Shawn Porter, Adrien Broner and Jesse Vargas with Amir Khan hoping to get into the mix but the WBSS super-lightweight tournament reduces his options in this division. He is invited to retire while he is still champion – OK that's a secondary title – but Pacquiao does not mention it.
The only warning about the weekend bout is the difficulty of judging what was happening at a refreshed Pacquiao and how insipid Matthysse was. The Argentine has only put in place a marginal resistance. What we had was not the Matthysse who beat Lamont Peterson, John Molina and Roberto Ortiz in the distance and fought a war by pointing Ruslan Provodnikov but the one who was knocked out in ten rounds by Viktor Postol. None of the three knockdowns was really convincing before Matthysse made his own no mas.
What a great weekend for boxing in the Philippines. Obviously, Pacquiaos' successful comeback made the headlines and, to some extent, it was a shame that he overshadowed two other outstanding performances from Filipino boxers. On Friday, Vic Saludar challenged WBO Ryuya Yamanaka's minimum weight champion in Kobe, Yamanakas hometown, and won a clear and unanimous decision. Vic likely watched a safe opponent. Over the past thirteen months, he had lost to 8-1-2 Toto Landero, beaten 6-2-2 Mike Kinaadman, 14-8-4 Lito Dante and again Kindaaman again. Nothing to scare Yamanaka but a low-risk fight exploded on their faces. Sunday under Pacquiao vs. Matthysse Jhack Tepora went all-in and stopped Mexico's Edivaldo Ortega to win the provisional WBA feather title. Entering the weekend their only world champion was IBF super flyweight king Jerwin Ancajas, so a huge boost for boxing in the archipelago of more than 7,000 islands.
Things could still improve with Toto Landero defying Simphiwe Khonco for the IBO minimum title in South Africa on Sunday and Froilan Saludar, Vic's older brother, defying Sho Kimura for the title WBO fly in China on July 27th. In addition, Mark Barriga could soon fight against Mexico's Carlos Licona for the IBF title as it is expected that Hiroto Kyoguchi will leave the title. They will have another champion for sure because Donnie Nietes and fellow Filipino Aston Palicte will meet in Cebu City on August 18 for the vacant WBO Super Flyer title. When Jerwin Ancajas outclassed Jonas Sultan in defense of his IBF Super Fly title in May, it is the first world title fight between two Filipino boxers for 93 years – now there are two in three months.
Nietes will try to become a four-division champion and if he wins, he will be 17-0-1 in 18 world championship games and is currently in 30-0-3 in his 33 last fights. Donnie comes from a fighting family. His uncle Dan is a former champion of the Philippines and now judge, Uncle Junie had a brief professional career, Uncle Gerson Snr was a good amateur and his cousin Gerson Jr is a former amateur boxer and now coaches Donnie alongside the l & # 39; former champion of the Philippines Ala Villamor.
The WSBB has managed to put together interesting lists for its next two divisions. The bantamweight competitors will be Mikhail Aloyan, Ryan Burnett, Nonito Donaire, Naoya Inoue, Jason Moloney, Juan Carlos Payano, Emmanuel Rodriguez and Zolani Tete. At super light we have Ivan Baranchyk, Terry Flanagan, Ryan Martin, Regis Prograis, Kiryl Relikh, Josh Taylor, Eduard Troyanovsky and Anthony Yigit. The two good lists but for me it is the bantams that really excite with four champions in the competition while only Relick is a champion in the super light. I was informed that Prograis had dropped the Interim WBC title before fighting Juan Jose Velasco this weekend and that their fight was for the WBC Diamond title.
It would have been interesting to see WBA No 4 Mario Barrios in the super lightweight mix. The 23-year-old from San Antonio, who became pro at 18, is 21-0 with 13 wins by KO / TKO. He will face a good test on July 28 when he meets Jose Roman who has a record of 24-2-1.
Floyd Mayweathers' record of 50 wins in 50 fights being the largest undefeated total for a retired world champion is threatened. On August 28 in Thailand, Wanheng (Chayaphon Moonsri) will face an unnamed challenger in defense of his WBC minimum weight title. Wanheng is 50-0 and will make the tenth defense of his title. Of course, for his success in getting in the record books, he will have to withdraw with a record of 100% so that you can be sure that the challenger will be very carefully chosen.
As the parties representing Kid Galahad and Toka Kahn Clary have not been able to hear on their IBF title eliminator, the IBF has issued a call for help. offers before July 31st. Galahad is No. 3 with the IBF (positions 1 and 2 are vacant) and Clary is No. 9.
Boxing has never been a major factor in Singapore's sport, but the emergence of Muhamad Ridhwan is arousing some interest. The 30-year-old Chosen Wan has already won the WBA Asian, UBO World and IBO International titles and is now looking to add a more prestigious one. On 29 September in Singapore, he will face Namibian Paulus Ambunda for the vacant IBO super-beno title. Ambunda, 37, a former Bantam WBO champion, held the IBO title before losing him to Moises Flores in 2016.
It was nice to see veteran Moruti Mthalane regaining the IBF flyweight title this weekend. He left the title a few years after a burlesque handbag auction process left him with the prospect of defending his title in Thailand for a fee. derisory. South Africa hopes to win another title on Sunday when Simphiwe Khonco will defend the IBO's minimum title against Toto Landero (holds a victory over Vic Saludar). The fight is part of a show to honor the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandelas and Khoncos promoter Rodney Berman has released Khonco so that he can pay the bill for the promoter of this show.
It must have been depressing for the South African boxing team to have bothered to ensure that the South African Institute of Doping Free Sport offered a clinic on this very important topic of doping when only eleven licensees showed up. You can not help people who are not going to help themselves.
Thursday, July 19 marked the sixtieth anniversary of Azumah Nelson, arguably the greatest African fighter of all time. The professor, former All-Africa gold medalist, World Military and Commonwealth, was WBC featherweight and super featherweight champion. He beat Wilfredo Gomez, Marcos Villasana (twice), Juan Laporte, Mario Martinez (twice, Calvin Grove, Gabe Ruelas and Jesse James Leija), British fans will probably not forget his one-man demolition of Pat Cowdell McDonnell then drew Jeff Fenech into two major battles with victory in 1992 and was ranked by Ring Magazine as a year – old upset and his Ruelas stop in 1995 was the Ring Magazine 's comeback. year. After only thirteen fights, he came into play very late against the great Salvador Sanchez in 1982. He was on one of the three cards before being stopped on the fifteenth lap in what was tragically the last fight of Sanchez. when he moved to lightness in 1992 to challenge Parnell Whittaker and lost a close unanimous decision. Azumah was inducted into the Hall of Fame Boxing in 2004. Equally important is the gifts he's made to many orphanages in Ghana and the Azumah Nelson Foundation to help young people in his country. He has been a great ambassador for boxing and for Ghana and the WBC have made arrangements to honor Azumah.
Also in Africa, I was informed this week of the death of Langton Tinago. The Zimbabwean schoolboy passed away on July 17th. For many years, Langton was the boxing man in Zimbabwe. During a 20-year career from 1967 to 1987, he had 110 fights ending with a record of 86-20-3.1ND. He has been National Champion at Lightweight and Welterweight and has had three seasons as Commonwealth Champion at Featherweight and Featherweight and has won victories over Ken Buchanan, Willie Booth, Chris Sanigar and Australia Graeme Brooke . He came across tough times after his retirement, but was a much revered figure in boxing in Zimbabwe.
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