Comments Thread For: Enkhmandakh Kharkhuu is '112lbs of dynamite'

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Enkhmandakh Kharkhuu doesn't ask who. He simply fights. The flyweight better known by his nickname "Magi" will make his third appearance of 2024 on December 5 in a four-round fight against Carlon Johnson, 0-1-1, at The Hangar in Costa Mesa, California.
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[JeBron Lamez]

Easy for you to say!

[landotter]

I love the lighter divisions. So much movement and leather thrown so quickly. I am excited for anyone who can bring attention to the under 130 pound boxers.

Even if I have to copy and paste their name.....

[Elheath]

I love the lighter divisions. So much movement and leather thrown so quickly. I am excited for anyone who can bring attention to the under 130 pound boxers.

Even if I have to copy and paste their name.....

Do you want to know something interesting? Since Takuma Inoue got the first of the four belts vacated by Naoya on April 2023 until October 2024, in about 1.5 years there has been 8 different beltholders and15 title fights fought in that span. A pessimist might just say that just means there's no defining "the guy" in the division, but when you look deeply into the movements it shows that there's no one that was willing to hide behind an annual one fight barrier and do only safe guys while milking the belt...they all fight, and fight often.

WBA: Takuma Inoue, Seiya Tsutsumi
Takuma won vacant belt against Solis on April23, fought Ancajas for a voluntary in Feb24 (he broke his rib in between and had to postpone his first defense), fought Ishida for mandatory in May24, fought Tsutsumi as voluntary on Oct24 and lost. Four title fights in 1.5 years.

WBO: Jason Moloney, Yoshiki Takei
Moloney won vacant belt against Astrolabio on May23, fought Saul Sanchez on a slug fest voluntary in Jan24, then another voluntary against Yoshiki Takei at Tokyo Dome in May24, who then fought Daigo Higa as a mandatory in Sep24, and is scheduled for another voluntary defense in Dec24. Four title fights in 1.5 years, with a fifth coming up before the end of the year.

WBC: Alexandro Santiago, Junto Nakatani
Santiago won vacant belt against Donaire in July23, fought Nakatani in Feb24 and lost, Nakatani then fought mandatory Astrolabio on July24, then the number 1 ranked guy just for sake on Oct24 to kill a future potential mandatory with a voluntary. Four title fights in 1.5 years.

IBF: Emmanuel Rodriguez, Ryosuke Nishida
ERod regained the IBF belt on Aug23, fought Nishida as a mandatory in May24 and lost, and Nishida is scheduled for his first voluntary on Dec24 (he busted his face badly in the fight against ERod and took a while recovering). Three fights in 1.5 years.

There are some divisions that haven't had even ONE belt that has four title fights in a 1.5 year span, where 118 has three and even the fourth one still doing the routine expectation of one fight every half a year.

[1Eriugenus]

According to the article, this guy was a top amateur and has come to the US to become World Champion, yet his 4th fight is a 4 rounder against a guy with 1 draw, 1 loss, 0 win. That tells me either he has turned out not to be that good or the team he is with don’t have the clout to get him the right fights. TBH my money is on the former. My experience has been that with boxing cynical is seldom wrong.

[Left Hook Louie]

Easy for you to say!

I can say it OK but then I'd have to offer you a hankie to wipe the spittle off your face.
Spelling it is a different matter altogether.

[Elheath]

According to the article, this guy was a top amateur and has come to the US to become World Champion, yet his 4th fight is a 4 rounder against a guy with 1 draw, 1 loss, 0 win. That tells me either he has turned out not to be that good or the team he is with don’t have the clout to get him the right fights. TBH my money is on the former. My experience has been that with boxing cynical is seldom wrong.

Whats even more baffling is that he's Mongolian, so if he was legit and serious about making a case of himself he should've stayed in Asia or atleast fight guys in Asia for experience.

WBO 112 beltholder Anthony Olascuaga first challenged for the 108 belt against Teraji on his 6th fight and lost, then won the 112 belt on his 8th fight. He's American but fought on cards in Japan for the last 4 fights and likely will continue to fight a lot on Japanese cards for a while because Asia is where a good handful of ranked fighters at 112 are at.