By REY DANSECO
Thai champions Patomsuk Pathompothong and Thangthong Kiattaweesuk made another reason to make their countrymen proud after beating their foreign opponents recently in Phitsanulok, Thailand.
Pathompothong (14-1-1, 8 KOs) was sent to the limit by unranked Billy Sumba (18-5-1, 4 KOs) of Indonesia in their 8-round non-title fight last Friday.
It was Pathompothong first bout since he took the vacant WBC Asian Boxing Council light middleweight title against WBC Asia Council Continental light middleweight champion Heath Ellis of Australia with a hard-earned majority decision win at the Sunshine Roller Skating Centre in Sunshine, Victoria, Australia last July.
Kiattaweesuk, a WBC rated but a loyal IBF title campaigner, has keep on his winning ways when he stopped veteran Francis Miyeyusho of Tanzania in the fifth round.
Kiattaweesuk improved his unblemished record to 23-0 with 16 knockouts after the non-title fight.
Kiattaweesuk can be remembered as the one who beat Nigeria’s Nick Otieno with a unanimous decision win for the vacant WBC International bantamweight title in Thailand in December last year.
But aging Thai champ relinquished the gold and green belt and fought for the vacant IBF Pan Pacific super bantamweight title and won it over Richard Samosir with third round knockout win last May before his countrymen.
The 33 year old Thai is also the IBF Pan Pacific bantamweight champ from November 2007 until the end of 2009.
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Rey Danseco is the Boxing Judge of the Year 2010 in the Philippines at the 11th Gabriel ”Flash” Elorde Memorial Boxing Awards-Banquet of Champions in March 2011. He is the Sports editor of one of the Philippine leading newspapers called Bagong Tiktik (Spy), television boxing commentator and a proud one and only Filipino with license as judge under WBC in the last four years.
EMAIL: reydanseco@yahoo.com
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