On Saturday in Chonburi, Thailand, a boxer with only one win in five fights failed to make it through the first round with a former world champion.
Filipino Jilo Merlin, now 1-4-1 with 0 KO, was battered by Thai Pungluang Sor Singyu, now 25-1-0, 15 KOs, from the opening bell before finally being stopped at 1.32 of the very first round. The fight was scheduled for 10 rounds and the vacant WBO Asia-Pacific youth 118 lb title was at stake.
Merlin - flat on the canvas
(Photo by Onesongchai Boxing Promotion)
Sor Singyu, ranked number 55 in the world by Boxrec.com, is the former WBC World Youth bantamweight champion. He lost the title to Stephane Jamoye in a controversial decision in May in Belgium. He boasts an impressive 57.7% KO percentage in his 5-year, 121-round, and 26-fight boxing career.
Merlin, on the other hand, had fought all five of his pro fights in his homeland and was on a two-fight losing streak before traveling to Thailand to face the tough Thai. He only had 30 rounds in his resume and had never fought a 10-rounder in his young but unpromising boxing career prior to the fight.
One has to ask though… when will crazy, if not potentially deadly, mismatches such as this stop from happening in this sport?
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