Asian and Oceania Fighters

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KAZUYOSHI KUMANO LW (2001 - ) Overall Rating = 2

Hometown - Tokyo, Japan

13(3)-2-0 (thru March, 2005)

Beat Masataka Murata and Masayuki Koguchi. Lost to Rey Almonicar, has been stopped once.

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Kazuyoshi Kumano

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RAE-KI AHN Fly (1981-1988) Overall Rating = 6

Hometown - Seoul, Korea

23(13)-3-4

Korean Flyweight Champion

Beat Shunichi Nakajima and Miguel Mercedes. Lost an eight round decision to Myung-Woo Yuh and was KO'd by Sot Chitalada in WBC title bout.

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KATSUHIRO AKITA Fly (1992-2000) Overall Rating = 3

Homtown - Tokyo, Japan

13(1)-11-2

Lost a ten round decision to Celes Kobayashi for Japanese Flyweight title; Stopped by Melvin Magramo in the tenth round in his bid for the OPBF title. Overall, stopped twice in 26 bouts.

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PAUL SEBASTIAN FW (1963-1968) Overall Rating = 1

Born - Guam
Hometown - Honolulu, Hawaii

8(4)-27-1

Fought his whole career in Honolulu; faced limited competition with poor results.

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AJIB ALBARADO JWW (1993-2003) Overall Rating = 6

Born - Surabaya, Indonesia
Hometown - Kanazawa, Japan

26(17)-3-0

Indonesian Jr Welterweight Champion
PABA Jr Welterweight Champion
WBF Jr Welterweight Champion

Beat Al Coquilla, Edwin Murillo, Dindo Canoy and Jong Jong Pacquing. Lost to Tadashi Yuba in bout for Japanese belt and Mikhail Boyarskikh in PABA title fight. Stopped twice in 29 bouts.

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JONG JONG PACQUING JWW (1980-2000) Overall Rating = 4

Hometown - Cagayan de Oro, Philippines

59(30)-24-5

Philippine Jr Featherweight Champion
Philippine Lightweight Champion
OPBF Lightweight Champion
Philippine Jr Welterweight Champion
Philippine Welterweight Champion

Pacquing's career spanned 20 years and six weight divisions. He beat Ernie Alesna, Dindo Canoy, Allan Alegria, Boy Romero, Lito Pena, Roland Aldemir and Nene Jun. He lost to Rev Santillan, Adrian Stone, Alesna, Alegria, Rod Sequenan, Tsuyoshi Hamada and Johnny Sato. Jong Jong was stopped 12 times over 88 fights, mostly above lightweight.

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AL COQUILLA JWW (1989-2001) Overall Rating = high 1

Hometown - Kidapawan, Philippines

29(21)-27-3

Lost bouts to Richard Acaylar, Ajib Albarado, Tiger Ari, Daomai Sithkodom, Jong-Kwon Baek and Lester Ellis. Stopped 15 times over 59 pro fights.

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KAZUHIKO AKUI JFW (1990-2001) Overall rating = 1

Hometown - Kurashiki, Japan

13(3)-15-2

Lost to Hideki Takayama, Hajime Kitajima, Nobutoshi Hiranaka, Hiroaki Fukumoto and Isao Mano. Stopped nine times.

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AMADO CABATO LW (1981-1998) Overall Rating = 4

Born - Manila, Philippines
Hometown - Brampton, Ontario, Canada

45(23)-27-8

Philippine Bantamweight Champion
IBO Lightweight Champion

Beat Darrell Hiles and Chung-Won Chang. Lost to Paul Spadafora, Billy Irwin, Lester Ellis, Tiger Ari and Neptali Alamag. Stopped three times.

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****NOTE****
This is a re-rating of the file that I believe came with the stock database. It seemed entirely too weak in my opinion. Maybe the rating was pulled down a bit by considering his lackluster Bantamweight career along with the stellar flyweight career. Also, his name is spelled with an 'H' at Boxrec and elsewhere. I thought that the rating in the game shorted him on power and chin as a fly.

VENICE BORKHORSOR Fly (1968-1980) Overall Rating = 10
Hometown - Nakornpanom, Thailand

49(36)-8-0

Thai Flyweight Champion
WBC Flyweight Champion
OPBF Bantamweight Champion
Thai Bantamweight Champion

Borkhorsor was a heavy handed flyweight that stopped Harry Hayes and outpointed Snappy Asano. In 1972, he took the WBC title from Betulio Gonzalez with a tenth round TKO. He defended the title against Erbito Salavarria in 1973 before moving up to bantamweight. As a flyweight, Borkhorsor was 34(26)-1-0.

The move to Bantamweight was not kind to him. He suffered 7 of his 8 career losses and his only stoppage loss to the likes of Rafael Herrera, Rodolfo Martinez, Soo-Hwan Hong, Paul Ferreri and Neptali Alamag.

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JONG KWAN CHUNG Fly (1981-1989) Overall Rating = 5

Hometown - Ham-Pyung, Korea

17(7)-11-4

IBF Flyweight Champion
Korean Jr Bantamweight Champion

Chung fought a series of three bouts with IBF Flyweight champion Soon Chun Kwon in 1985. The two fought to 15 round draws in January and July, with Chung finly taking the title in December via fourth round TKO. Chung was stopped once in 32 bouts.

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JONG KWAN CHUNG

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[hamed]

Chris, your info on Venice is interesting. Years ago, Yuri Arbachov (spelling?) was one of my Flyweight champs & Venice took the title via a UD. Based on your info, maybe that outcome wasn't as far fetched as I thought it was @ the time.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by hamed

Chris, your info on Venice is interesting. Years ago, Yuri Arbachov (spelling?) was one of my Flyweight champs & Venice took the title via a UD. Based on your info, maybe that outcome wasn't as far fetched as I thought it was @ the time.

Thanks!

In all honesty, I did not know that much about him. But check out his record as a fly. I was a bit surprised by it. On paper, it looks like you would have to include him with some of the best flyweights of the past 30 years or so. Overall, you can't call him a great fighter because he couldn't make the small step up to bantam, but as a fly he looked world calss. Maybe I'm wrong - did anyone actualy see him fight?

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REY ALMONICAR LW (2002 - ) Overall Rating = 2

Home - Philippines

4(3)-2-0

Beat Neil Caga and Kazuyoshi Kumano. Lost to Fernando Montilla.

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REY ALMONICAR

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MASAHIRO ASAMI JLW (1999 - ) Overall Rating = 2

Hometown - Yokohama, Japan

9(6)-4-0

Beat Arnel Porras and Daigo Kaneko, lost to Dino Olivetti.

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Masahiro Asami

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TAKEYUKI KOJIMA Fly (1998 - ) Overall Rating = 3

Hometown - Yokohama, Japan

11(5)-4-3

Has lost two bids for the Japanese flyweight belt and one for the OPBF title.