Wanheng Menayothin Decisions Noli Morales To Retain

By Ronnie Nathanielsz

Noli Morales has lost in his bid to win the WBC International Silver minimumweight title. He was beaten by Thailand’s Wanheng Menayothin in Sara Buri on Friday.

The 25 year old Menayothin, who won the interim title with a twelve round unanimous decision over another Filipino Jayson Rotoni on December 24, 2009, beat Morales by way of a sixth round technical decision with all three judges scoring the fight for the defending champion 59-55.

With the win Menayothin  improved his record to 16-0 with 4 knockouts while the southpaw Morales, according to boxrec, dropped to 4-1 with 2 knockouts.

Menayothin previously defended his title against Remy Chambot and won a ten round technical decision on January 6 of this year.

Morales, on the other hand, was coming off a 9th round knockout of Jomar Elorde from February 12 of last year.