When Filipino minimumweight Michael Rodriguez who has a miserable record of 19 defeats against only 7 wins with not a single win by knockout lost a unanimous decision to stocky veteran Pigmy Muangchaiyaphum whose record is 40-5-2 with 18 knockouts in Thailand the other day - it came as no surprise at all. [Click Here To Read More]
Comments Thread For: GAB Under Fire For Approving Mismatches in Thailand
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He lost a UD.
Wasnt KO'd or hurt.
His team and trainers let him go through with the fight.
Hes a grown man.
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Mismatches have been going on forever in Thailand but let's not pretend they don't happen on a regular basis in the U.S., Germany, the Phillipines, Mexico and every other boxing mecca in the world.
Mismatches are basically the new way of fixing fights. Put a no hoper against a talent, and it pretty much amounts to the same thing.Comment
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Yeah, but it's still playing with fire.
This stuff if common in Thailand. I don't really like it, TBH.
Top quality Thai fighters, like Wonjongkam and Sahaprom in the past, often took these kinds of fights. Granted, they usually happened a few pounds above the weight they campaigned at, but it's still dangerous.Comment
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ronnie nathanielzs is a strange one , i remember before ciso morales was going to fight montiel he was writing a bumch of encouraging articles about morales but when he lost he wrote one about having the WBO investigated for sanctioning the fight
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