Yota Sato outwits Suriyan Sor Rungvisai to become WBC super flyweight champion – Boxing News
Yota Sato, the former Japanese super flyweight champion, defied all odds and collected a close unanimous decision win over his Thai opponent Suriyan Sor Rungvisai, to become the new World Boxing Council (WBC) super flyweight champion, in a 12-round skirmish
which was held on March 27, 2012.
The bout co-headlined the pay-per-view put forth by Kyoei Promotions and the ring for the epic Tuesday night event was stretched at Korakuen Hall situated in Tokyo, Japan. The show was headlined by the Japanese and OPBF welterweight title bout between Akinori
Watanabe and Koshinmaru Saito.
Suriyan, 23, was entering in his second title defence bout and was optimistic at retaining the title but he seriously underestimated the height and reach advantage that his opponent, Yota possessed.
Ranked as number two in his country, Suriyan was entering in his career’s 26th bout. Widely known as the ‘Suriyan Por Chokchai’, the orthodox world number three super flyweight has emerged victorious in 20 bouts.
Sor, is not a heavy pounder who moves forward bluntly throwing powerful stunning jabs rather he is a resilient pugilist who damages his opponent bit-by-bit by multiple swift punch combinations, the reason why he has collected just seven wins by KO
The Thailand proud Suriyan was on a six-bout win streak and became the owner of the apex gold by collecting a unanimous decision in his favour against Tomas Rojas. Rungvisai, who has also held the vacant WBC Asian Boxing Council flyweight title, later on,
successfully defended his gold against Nobuo Nashiro again by grabbing a unanimous decision.
His Tuesday night opponent, Yota, was entering in his careers 27th bout. The 27-year-old Japanese boasted 23 wins and 12 of them by knockout. The bout started and Yota did try to intimidate Suriyan by knocking him down twice in the third round but the defending
champion made an impressive comeback so much so that he almost superseded Sato’s score on all the three cards.
After collecting 116-110, 114-112, and 14-112 scores on all the three cards the proud Sato commented, “When I heard the interim scores, after the eighth, with three points ahead for the two judges, I thought should I win a least one round I would be the
winner. I’m tremendously happy to be able to respond to my supporters’ expectations. Their spiritual power had me gain the world title.”
The unfortunate Suriyan who almost squashed Sato’s dream while praising his opponent’s jabs simply said, “Sato threw strong shots in the third. But, except in that round, I dominated the initiative. I’ll beat him in a rematch.”
Sato now has 24 wins in his account out of a total 27 and Suriyan, on the other hand, has collected his career’s fifth loss.
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