| Pinoy fighter ready to face Thai Singwancha
WHEN Thai challenger
Wandee Singwancha faces
World Boxing Council (WBC)
international superflyweight
champ Silvester Lopez, the
5’6” Filipino’s height and reach
advantage would not matter.
Singwancha said he will
pressure Lopez to fight his way
since he likes his opponents
tall, according to his assistant
trainer/interpreter David Trehanne
of Canada who accompanied
him on Wednesday’s
press preview at the Elorde
Boxing gym along Pasay Road.
Lopez has a healthy respect
for the shorter but muscular
30-year old Thai whom
he will meet in the main
fight starting at 5 p.m. at the
Ynares Sports Center in Pasig
City on Saturday.
After losing in May last
year to Marvin Sonsona, who
knocked him out in the second
round to bag the then vacant
WBO Oriental flyweight title,
Singwancha has bounced back
by wining six fights in a row,
including three against Filipino
foes Brix Ray, Joel Rafols
and Edwin Tumbaga.
Trehanne said Singwancha’s
62 wins with 14 KOs and
11 losses record is not something
to be sneezed at. Even his
Thai trainer Phinit Iamthuan
and veteran Thai international
matchmaker Narong Hengtrakul
have placed so much faith
in Wandee.
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