By Ronnie Nathanielsz
For a country that has produced one of the most exciting fighters today in Ring Magazine featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao, the win-loss record of Filipino boxers abroad is unimpressive to say the least. In the latest fight results received by Viva
Sports/Manila Standard three more fighters lost in foreign venues in addition to the two who were beaten in South Korea on the undercard of the Injin Chi-Tommy Browne WBC title fight.
The Philippines featherweight champion, veteran Jeffrey Onate suffered a ninth round knockout in an Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation title fight against champion Takashi Koshimoto, a stylish southpaw whose only defeat was in a title fight against WBA champion Freddie Norwood in 2000. Well-known Japanese boxing manager, matchmaker and journalist Joe Koizumi told Viva Sports/Manila Standard that the wild-swinging
Onate charged forward and tried to land big shots but the champion “kept his cool and scored with accurate combinations to have the challenger’s face swollen.”
Koizumi reported that Koshimoto “unleashed a well-timed short left to the face of Onate who fell forward on the canvas and stayed prone for some ten minutes” at 2:58 of the ninth round in his seventh successful defense of the OPBF crown.
Over at the Channel 7 studios in Bangkok, Asian Boxing Council bantamweight champion Chatchai Sasakul who is rated No. 2 by the WBC easily destroyed Filipino Alwin
Tarazona in the second round of a scheduled ten round bout with a vicious right hook to the mid-section. Sasakul lost his WBC flyweight title to Manny Pacquiao in a stunning seventh round KO in December 1998 and is now campaigning with great success in the bantamweight division.
In a supporting bout another Filipino Danny Linasa was knocked out in the sixth round by Asian Boxing Council flyweight champion Panomroonglek Kratingdaenggym who
weakened Linasa with solid body shots and then put him away with a one-sided hammering in the sixth round.