Bangkok Post
WBA super-bantamweight champion Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym faces undefeated knockout artist Satoshi Hosono in the first defence of his belt in Tokyo today.
Poonsawat snatched the title from Bernard Dunne with a third round knockout in Ireland last November, but looks to have a much tougher assignment this time against the former Japanese amateur champion.
Hosono has won all 16 of his fights, with 12 stoppages, and scored his best victory last time out when he upset former world title challenger Hiroyuki Enoki.
Sakhon Nakhon's Poonsawat has a 39-1 record with 28KOs and is one of Thailand's four world boxing champions alongside Oledong Sithsamerchai (WBC strawweight), Denkaosan Kaovichit (WBA flyweight) and Usanakorn Kokietgym (WBC women's bantamweight).
The 29-year-old has been labelled as Thailand's Manny Pacquiao in some quarters of the international press and was chosen as the Bangkok Post's best boxer of 2009.
Channel 3 will televise the fight live, with the broadcast starting at 2.30pm.
Source: bangkokpost.com
This fight will be one-sided.
ReplyDeleteA champion with 39-1-0, 28 KOs taking on a untested "undefeated" challenger with only 18 fights on his resume.