Re: Which fighter holds the record for winning a world title after the least fights?
Saensak Muangsurin
'The Shadow of the Devil' from Thailand.
Won the WBC Light-Welterweight Title in his 3rd-Bout on July 15, 1975 by scoring
a {KO 8} over WBC Champion - Perico Fernandez.
Was 2-0-0 {2 KO's}, and only had 8-Rounds of Professional Boxing under his belt,
when he walked into the Ring as the Challenger.
A super fantastic southpaw, who could punch non-stop for the entire bout. A vicious
puncher with the straight left-hand
Was great, but suffered a 'bad' eye injury in April 1978, and was affected by poor vision
in his right-eye. Was not the same after that.
Wanted to retire, but foolishly fought on.
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Re: Which fighter holds the record for winning a world title after the least fights?
Saensak Muangsrin
Was one of the premier Muay-Thai fighters in the World from 1972 thru 1974.
He was the 'Nak Thai' Champion.
As an 'Amateur', he never had a single conventional 'Boxing Match'.
Also, he punched much harder than WBA Light-Welterweight Champion - Antonio Cervantes.
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Re: Which fighter holds the record for winning a world title after the least fights?
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Originally Posted by
Bill Paxtom
Saensak Muangsrin
Was one of the premier Muay-Thai fighters in the World from 1972 thru 1974.
He was the 'Nak Thai' Champion.
As an 'Amateur', he never had a single conventional 'Boxing Match'.
Also, he punched much harder than WBA Light-Welterweight Champion - Antonio Cervantes.
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The dude looks like a cross between Duran and Pac. Impressive boxer though judging from your posts Bill.
Re: Which fighter holds the record for winning a world title after the least fights?
I do not know if Bill is writing the truth or not.
Re: Which fighter holds the record for winning a world title after the least fights?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Master
I do not know if Bill is writing the truth or not.
That is 'semi' slander Mr. Master.
I actually wrote a detailed article about Saensak Muangsurin a few years back for
the Spanish {Spain} publication 'Mundo Deportivo'.
The title of the article was 'Sombra del Diablo" ....
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Saensak was/is my all-time favorite Asian boxer.
He was a fantastic fighting-machine. He was supposed to defend his WBC Light-Welterweight
Championship against Esteban Dejesus in mid-1978.
Then defend against either Roberto Duran at the end of 1978, or challenge WBC Champion
Carlos Palomino for the WBC Welterweight Title.
Don King was trying to put those matches together.
But he suffered a detached retina in his right-eye in April 1978 in his Title Defense against
Venezelan - Franciso Moreno.
That eye-injury not only put his career in jeopardy, but Saensak was worried about his vision
for the future.
Re: Which fighter holds the record for winning a world title after the least fights?
Mr. Master
Saensak Muangsurin
At the end of 1977, should have been named 'Fighter of the Year' by Ring Magazine.
Check out his Title Defenses........ '6'
In January 1978 > Fight Promoter - Lope Sorreal offered 'big' $$$$ { $200,000 } to,
> Antonio Cervantes
> Wilfred Benitez
> Roberto Duran
Lope Sorreal wanted one of the big '3' to come over to Thailand to challenge the
27 year-old WBC Light-Welterweight Champion.
Nobody was 'jumping' to take on the vicious hitting southpaw, at least not in Southeast Asia.
Saensak was truly, a magnificent fighter.
Re: Which fighter holds the record for winning a world title after the least fights?
Saensak Muangsurin {Thailand}
Managed by > Tiembonn Intrabutru
Promoted by > Lope 'Popi' Sorreal
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In all fairness,
Saensak Muangsrin was a tremendous Western-style 'Muay-Thai' fighter before switching over
to Professional Boxing in October 1974.
Saensak won the 1973 Southeast Asian Games, in a Tournament where only the best 'Muay-Thai'
fighters competed.
Saensak, blew away the competition in the Lightweight {135 lb.} Division, and was voted as the
"Fighter of the Tournament".
