Thailand’s Oleydong Sithsamerchai (now 33-0-0, 12 KOs) retained his WBC straw-weight belt via majority decision victory over tough Nicaraguan Juan Palacios (26-3-0, 21 KOs) early today in Pathumthani, Thailand. One of the three judges scored the fight 114 even, while the rest saw it 116-144 and 115-114 for the Thai champion.
The point that was deducted from Palacios by the referee in the 3rd round due to head-butt proved to be the Nicaraguan’s downfall.
Prior to the fight, a dispute over the gloves that were used nearly cancelled the bout. Before the weigh-in, Palacios team claimed that the locally made gloves did not meet standards and threatened to pull out the challenger from the fight. However, the disagreement was somehow resolved and the fight went on as scheduled.
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