By Ronnie Nathanielsz
Former WBA minimumweight champion Joma Gamboa has lost by a split decision in a comeback fight against Dickson Ton of Indonesia at the RCTI Studios in Jakarta. Gamboa who retired following his January 10 second round knockout in a WBC light flyweight title fight against Jorge Arce was unlucky to lose with two judges scoring it for Ton 76-77 and a third judge having Gamboa ahead also by a 77-76 score.
Boxrec. Com reported that Ton had a record of 4—3-2 with 1 knockout and was coming off a ten round draw against Filipino Marvin Tampus last September 28. The veteran Gamboa, on the other hand, had a record of 33-9-2 with 22 KO’s but failed to pull it off against the comparatively inexperienced Indonesian.
Meantime, 33 year old veteran Rey Llagas dropped a ten round unanimous decision to Japan’s Manabu Fukushima, a 30 year old super bantamweight with a record of 27-6-2 with 18 KO’s . Llagas, a southpaw, was coming off an impressive eighth round TKO over Akira Yamakawa while Fukushima was coming off a ten round TKO victory over Ho Sup Noh.
All three judges scored the fight for Fukushima in a lopsided decision 100-89, 100-90 and 99-92.
