The credentials of the Thai opponents of WBO Oriental junior featherweight champion Ciso ?Kid Terrible? Morales and WBO Asia Pacific Youth flyweight champion ?Marvelous? Marvin Sonsona are being questioned by hard-hitting Scott Mallon, editor-in-chief of Asian Boxing News.
Morales who is undefeated with a record of 12-0 with 7 knockouts is defending his title on February 21 against Pichitchok Singmanassak who has a woeful record of 10 wins as against 8 defeats with 6 knockouts and has lost three of his last four fights but is rated No. 5 bantamweight. .
One of those losses was a 7th round TKO at the hands of Jason Egera in a battle for the vacant WBO Asia Pacific bantamweight title in Thailand last July 8 while in his last fight on September 12 Pichitchok dropped a points decision to Nicole Paradorngym.
Mallon charged that many of the fights in Pitchitchok?s initial fight record were fake and had been deleted on boxrec.com. At the same time Mallon posed the question as to how the WBO could sanction a title shot by a fighter who had lost three of his last four bouts.
In the case of Liempetch Sor Veerapol (12-4, 8 KO?s) who clashes with the undefeated Sonsona who has a record of 10-0 with 9 knockouts, the Asian Boxing News top executive claimed ?the only guy he?s beaten with a winning record is Yodsaenkeng Por Choomnchok and this is out of 16 fights! What has he done to ever deserve a title shot?? Liempetch is ranked No. 4 light flyweight in the Asia Pacific ratings.
Liempetch who lost by a 6th round TKO to Jhonreil Casimiro in a battle for the vacant WBO Asia Pacific light flyweight title in Talisay City last October 3 is even moving up in weight to fight Sonsona.
In fairness to promoter Sammy Gello-ani, the WBO Oriental junior lightweight interim champion Anthony ?Rocky? Marcial who is also undefeated with a record of 11-0 with 10 knockouts faces a worthy challenger in Vacharakrit Senathan based on the Thai?s record of 11-0 with 7 knockouts.
The main event which is expected to be the major attraction features Australian warrior Michael Katsidis (23-2, 20 KO?s) against Argentina?s 31 year old Angel Hugo Ramirez (19-4-2, 8 KO?s) for the vacant WBO Asia Pacific lightweight title.
Katisidis is best remembered for his bloody brawl with Czar Amonsot for the WBP Interim world title after which both men wound up side-by-side in a Las Vegas hospital where doctors discovered a tiny spec of blood outside Amonzot?s brain.
However, a series of tests showed no signs of a blood spec and he has been cleared to fight in Tagbilaran City on the same day that Katsidis sees action in Cebu.
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