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Originally posted by mickey malone
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Actually, Loi beat Glen Flanagan down in Miami and lost to Carlos Ortiz in San Francisco. -
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Don’t forget the superior twin, Khaokor.Originally posted by just the facts View Post
Anyway…
As someone said earlier (I think it was malone, good mention of Sot by the way) there are loads of quality fighters that never fought in the US.
A few that hasn’t been mentioned:
Jung-Koo Chang
Howard Winstone
Jiro Watanabe
Yuri Arbachakov
Veeraphol Sahaprom
Chan-Hee Park
Ernesto Marcel
Myung-Woo Yuh
Betulio Gonzalez
Shoji Oguma
Horacio Accavallo
Sung-Kil Moon
Luis Ibarra
Walter McGowan
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Sweet someone mentioned Howard Winstone!Originally posted by greeh View Post
Some good names there.
Also a few names I'm sad to say I've never heard of.Comment
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Superb list.......Originally posted by greeh View Post
But the name, Benny Lynch, truly deserves a good mention imoComment
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I can assure you that I haven't mixed them up.Originally posted by just the facts View Post
I am just not that impressed by Khaosai’s “Ricardo Lopez-esque” opposition and technical limitations. The image “The Ring” tried to create of him being some kind of unbeatable God’s gift to mankind-like fighter should be exposed as a myth by now since footage has gotten more easily available for the masses.
Khaosai was a good fighter, I don’t deny that, but he wasn’t the flawless little wrecking ball he was made out to be - ruling the division with an iron-fist and eating the other top fighters for lunch while laughing at their inferiority.
Truth to be told, he fought in the 115 lbs. division's “Golden Age” but not even once against the top fighters at the time - i.e. Gilberto Roman, Jiro Watanabe, Nana Yaw Konadu and Sung-Kil Moon. That is, and has to be, a big drawback.
Khaosai was - and still is by some - heavily overrated.
While he didn’t and still doesn’t gain nearly as much attention and praise as his brother, Khaokor on the other hand was much better technically and actually fought, and beat, an excellent opponent in Sung-Kil Moon.
Even though Moon almost surely wasn't 100% going into their rematch - his long-time trainer had died on the evening before the fight - that victory absolutely dwarfs everything on Khaosai's resume.
In the end, everyone is entitled to their opinion (well, except for Humean and the other mongs), but denying that a strong argument can be done for Khaokor being the superior Galaxy is just sheer bias in my opinion.
It is not my intention to sound rude or aggressive, and if I have I apologize. But I just can’t stand that Khaosai by some is being seen as some kind of godly creature with a hugely incompetent and deficient twin brother that does nothing else than brings shame to the family and is doomed to forever lurk in the huge shadow of his extraordinary brother.
Someone needs to stand up for Khaokor. It might as well be me...
And by the way, Borkhorsor KO1 Khaosai!
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