Fleming Decisions Villacura, Onikeke Stops Omongos
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
Four Filipino boxers have been beaten in Australia which isn’t anything new considering the Filipinos usually move up in weight to fight superior and bigger fighters and fight just for the money.
Flash Villacura, who as late as last year fought as a flyweight and lost a unanimous eight round decision to Fernando Lumacad, moved up to featherweight to face Paul “Two Guns” Fleming and lost a six round unanimous decision after being dropped in the fifth round.
The 32 year old Villacura weighed in at 125 ¼ pounds while Fleming came in at 128 ½. According to boxrec.com Fleming was unbeaten in three fights with two knockouts. It was Villacura’s third straight loss in Australia .
Welterweight Ariel Omongos who has twice as many losses as wins – 16 defeats to 8 wins with 7 knockouts was stopped in the third round by African welterweight Fatai Onikeke (23-3, 20 KO’s) , the former Commonwealth champion in an obvious mismatch.
Onikeke suffered his first defeat at the hands of Filipino lightweight Ranee “KO Kid” Ganoy on September 15, 2006 when Onikeke lost by a stunning 7th round TKO.
In a four round bout featherweight Jackson Asiku (25-3, 13 KO’s) who is ranked No. 14 by the IBF beat Filipino welterweight Junmar Dulog in an action-packed bout even though Dulog had a miserable record of 5 wins as against 17 defeats and 2 draws.
Two of the judges Ces Perkins and Damien Casey scored it 39-37 for Asiku but judge Brad Griffiths saw it just it just the opposite and had Dulong the winner by a 39-37 margin.
Asiku was coming off a big win when he knocked out former world champion Gairy St. Clair.
The fourth Filipino to go down in defeat was Roel Mangan (13-11-1, 3 KO’s) who lost in a four round encounter against William “Cool” Kickett (15-1, 5 KO’s). All three judges scored it a shutout for the former world-rated junior lightweight, 40-36.
The 22 year old promising junior lightweight recorded his seconds win in five weeks following his stunning first round KO by Ahmed Elomar in a riot-marred event last November 7. A report by Paul Upham said Kickett who is trained by Craig Christian who trains world champion Chris John of Indonesia was never troubled by the Cebu City fighter although Mangan never looked like he would be stopped by Kickett whose hand-speed, movement and overall skills were simply too much for the Filipino.