JESSIE ESPINAS WINS WBO ORIENTAL TITLE IN STUNNING 8TH ROUND KO OF UNBEATEN THAI CHAMPION

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Unranked Filipino minimumweight Jessie Espinas has won the WBO Oriental light flyweight title with a stunning 8th round knockout of Thai champion and world rated Phaipharob Kokietgym in Surin, Thailand.

Espinas stunned the Thai, who is ranked No. 2 behind champion Donnie Nietes in the WBO rankings and is also ranked No. 6 by the IBF and No. 4 by the WBA and was previously unbeaten with a record of 32-0 with 25 knockouts and was known as "The King of Knockouts." He is 32 years old.

But he fell prey to the 23 year old Espinas nicknamed "Little Giant" whose record was a comparatively unimpressive 12-2 although he did have 8 knockouts.

WBO Asia Pacific head Leon Panoncillo informed us that Espinas is a fighter of Sammy Gello-ani and was previously world-ranked by the WBO but dropped out of the rankings after he lost to undefeated Christian Araneta who was a flyweight with a record of 10-0 with 9 knockouts.