Thailand's Sasakul sucessfully defends flyweight belt
Posted: Fri May 1, 1998 at 10:54 p.m. EDT
Chatchai Sasakul of Thailand retained his World Boxing Council
flyweight title with a fifth-round knockout of South Korean
Young Soon Chang tonight in Bangkok, Thailand.
Chatchai (33-1, 24 kos) making the second defense of his
112-pound title, sent Young to the canvas with right to the body
and the challenger was unable to beat the referee's count.
In May 1997, Chatchai outpointed Ysaias Zamudio of Mexico to
capture the WBC interim flyweight title. The champion at the
time, Russian-born, Japanese-based Yuri Arbachakov, was unable
to defend the flyweight belt after wrist surgery.
Chatchai was to defend the interim title and meet Arbachakov
when he recovered from surgery to unify the titles. After one
title defense of the interim title, Chatchai avenged the lone
loss of his career when outpointed Arbachakov in November to
become the sole holder of the WBC flyweight title.
Young, who got the title shot despite losing a title eliminator
to Gabriel Mira of Mexico in March, fell to 21-3.
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