Wow, great responses.

To the poster who pointed out Pong's tendency to fight neophytes in non-title tilts, that's a well-taken point. In addition, you point out that during most of his reign, there has always been another flyweight around with a reasonable dispute to the Thai's supremacy. Not exactly what you want from a #1 guy of a country with as rich a boxing tradition as Thailand. Then again, I could say Galaxy wasn't always the clear #1 115-pounder with Gilberto Roman around at the same time.

Marbleheadmaui, those are good points. I think Pong is one of those guys who would be a lot higher ranked if he did all this deep in the past. It's difficult to get hardcore fans like you onboard with a guy's resume without letting it ruminate for a while.

I understand your hesitance in putting Pong in Galaxy territory. He just doesn't seem as special. does he? Galaxy's greatness hit on a visceral level. With Pong, you gotta look at the big picture and then you're nudged to extend him some respect.

And Kingpetch sure did a lot with a 28-7 record. Unbelievable. While looking into Thai greats, I was also struck by Saensak, who was 14-6 and probably in this country's top ten. Another guy with a better resume than I thought was Khaosai's brother Kaokor, who beat Wilfredo Vazquez and top Korean Sung-Kil Moon.