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KITTIPONG THONGSOMBAT
Six Thais will be fighting in today's finals of the 30th King's Cup international amateur boxing tournament after registering victories in the semi-finals at The Mall Ngam Wong Wan yesterday. Flyweight favourite Somjit Jongjohor thrashed Zorigtbaatar Luvsantseren of Mongolia 20-2 to set up a dream final against China's Zou Shiming who beat Thai B's Chatchai Butdee 18-2.
Somjit, 2003 world flyweight champion, is a hopeful at the 2008 Olympics so is Zou, the current world light-flyweight title-holder who moved up to flyweight. ''We box in the same style. It will be an interesting bout,'' Somjit said.
Light-flyweight Amnat Ruenroeng defeated Kazuto Ioka of Japan 19-7. In the final, the hot favourite Thai faces Thai B's Kaew Pongprayoon who defeated Kreedui Enkhjargal of Mongolia 24-3.
In bantamweight, Olympic silver medallist Worapoj Petchkoom took an easy 16-2 victory over Evgeny Volkov of Russia. ''I am not happy with my performance. I am not yet at my best,'' said Worapoj who meets Yu Gu of China in the final. ''He is very speedy. I can't underestimate the Chinese.''
Lightweight Pichai Sayotha beat Long Wang Xie of China in the first round after the Chinese suffered an injury.
In the final, Pichai is up against Russia's Alexy Tishenko who beat him at the 2007 World Championships.
Middleweight Angkarn Chomphuphuang reached the final without sweat after wolrd champion Matvey Korobov of Russia withdrew due to injury.
The Lop Buri native is handed a tough final assignment against Olympic gold medallist Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan who won bronze at last year's World Championships.
In light-welterweight, title-holder and world champion Serik Spiyev of Kazakhstan meets Maiamitituersun Qiong of China in the final.
In welterweight, Bakhyt Sarsekbayev of Kazakhstan beat Byamba Tuvshinbat of Mongolia 14-7 for a final showdown against China's Silamu Hanati who beat Dimitriy Ivanov of Russia 19-5.
Taweep Jantararoj, president of the Amateur Boxing Association of Thailand (Abat), said he had expected that five Thai A boxers would reach the finals.
Worapoj has the best chance of winning gold while Angkarn has the toughest task, Gen Taweep said.
He said most Thai boxers were impressive but Amnat and Sailom should have done better. ''Amnat and Sailom must improve if they want to win medal at the Olympics,'' he said.
Today's finals begin at 3pm and admission is free.
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KITTIPONG THONGSOMBAT
Six Thais will be fighting in today's finals of the 30th King's Cup international amateur boxing tournament after registering victories in the semi-finals at The Mall Ngam Wong Wan yesterday. Flyweight favourite Somjit Jongjohor thrashed Zorigtbaatar Luvsantseren of Mongolia 20-2 to set up a dream final against China's Zou Shiming who beat Thai B's Chatchai Butdee 18-2.
Somjit, 2003 world flyweight champion, is a hopeful at the 2008 Olympics so is Zou, the current world light-flyweight title-holder who moved up to flyweight. ''We box in the same style. It will be an interesting bout,'' Somjit said.
Light-flyweight Amnat Ruenroeng defeated Kazuto Ioka of Japan 19-7. In the final, the hot favourite Thai faces Thai B's Kaew Pongprayoon who defeated Kreedui Enkhjargal of Mongolia 24-3.
In bantamweight, Olympic silver medallist Worapoj Petchkoom took an easy 16-2 victory over Evgeny Volkov of Russia. ''I am not happy with my performance. I am not yet at my best,'' said Worapoj who meets Yu Gu of China in the final. ''He is very speedy. I can't underestimate the Chinese.''
Lightweight Pichai Sayotha beat Long Wang Xie of China in the first round after the Chinese suffered an injury.
In the final, Pichai is up against Russia's Alexy Tishenko who beat him at the 2007 World Championships.
Middleweight Angkarn Chomphuphuang reached the final without sweat after wolrd champion Matvey Korobov of Russia withdrew due to injury.
The Lop Buri native is handed a tough final assignment against Olympic gold medallist Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan who won bronze at last year's World Championships.
In light-welterweight, title-holder and world champion Serik Spiyev of Kazakhstan meets Maiamitituersun Qiong of China in the final.
In welterweight, Bakhyt Sarsekbayev of Kazakhstan beat Byamba Tuvshinbat of Mongolia 14-7 for a final showdown against China's Silamu Hanati who beat Dimitriy Ivanov of Russia 19-5.
Taweep Jantararoj, president of the Amateur Boxing Association of Thailand (Abat), said he had expected that five Thai A boxers would reach the finals.
Worapoj has the best chance of winning gold while Angkarn has the toughest task, Gen Taweep said.
He said most Thai boxers were impressive but Amnat and Sailom should have done better. ''Amnat and Sailom must improve if they want to win medal at the Olympics,'' he said.
Today's finals begin at 3pm and admission is free.
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