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Joe Noynay Is Pushing it at 147 Lbs., Suffers Second Straight Knockout Defeat


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Joe Noynay.

Joe Noynay should take a pause and a seriously reconsider about continuing his boxing career as a welterweight.

Noynay suffered his second straight knockout defeat, retiring his fight at the end of the 5th round against former bemedaled amateur and current world rated pro Daniyar Yeleussinov in their main event 10 round bout in Almaty, Kazakhstan last week.

In his last bout, Noynay was brutally stopped in the fifth round by world rated Japanese Jin Sasaki in their 12 round title fight for the vacant OPBF and WBO Asia Pacific welterweight championships in Tokyo.

As in the Sasaki fight, Noynay was obviously out of his league not only in terms of skill but more importantly in strength and power as his best blows just seemed to bounce off Yeleussinov who walked him down, battering and bruising him up.

After the usual feeling out first round, the muscular Kazakh proceeded to break down Noynay with powerful combinations to which the Filipino could only offer token resistance. Before his surrender, Yeleussinov managed to down Noynay in the fourth round with a hard left. On resumption, for a while, Noynay seemed to stop fighting and Yeleussinov refusing to take advantage tapped him on the shoulder to urge him to continue, to the amusement of the Almaty Arena crowd.

After surviving another round of beating in the fifth, Noynay and his corner decided to no longer come out to continue the fight before the start of the 6th round handing Yeleussinov, who is also the reigning IBO champion, his 11th pro victory, 7 by KO.

Noynay's record fell to 23 wins including 11 by KO, 5 losses including 3 by KO and 2 draws.

Following the TKO loss to Sasaki, Noynay's camp should already have second thoughts about Noynay continuing to fight as a welterweight, and at high level at that.

But they accepted the offer to fight Yeleussinov who in the amateurs holds wins over Felix Marcial and Israil Madrimov in the welterweight class which is heavier than the 147 lbs limit in the pros. That means that Daniyar is used to fighting at what the pros could classify as light middleweight or even middleweight.

What followed was another debacle for Noynay who less than three years ago was fighting as a super featherweight or 130 pounder.

It does not take a genius to tell that Noynay has been pushing it since moving up to the welterweights without even a perfunctory try at 135 and 140 lbs which could be the more appropriate division for him to campaign on.

Many Pinoy boxing fans were surprised and felt a sense of loss when Noynay's fighting weight suddenly shoot up that resulted to his first knockout loss to Australian Liam Wilson in 2022 in a WBO world super featherweight title eliminator. Wilson went on to fight Emanuel Navarette coming close to stopping the Mexican before losing steam and losing by late round TKO.

The year before, Noynay had knocked out the same Wilson and in 2019, had kayoed two other Japanese foes while holding former world champion Kenichi Ogawa to draw in fights in Japan. At that time he held the WBO Asia Pacific super featherweight title. Such showing raised hopes that the Bogo City native would be following in the footsteps of his illustrious town mate Gabriel Flash Elorde.

But it was not meant to be as Noynay followed where his soaring weight took him.

The succeeding months saw him fighting as a welterweight initially toppling a motley cast of mostly Filipino and Indonesian 147 pounders including Adam Diu Abdulhamid for the GAB Philippine welterweight title.

Then reality bites - in the form of Sasaki and now Yeleussinov, both legitimate powerfully built welterweights.

Hopefully, it is still not the end of Joe Noynay who is rated #2 in the Philippines by Boxrec behind Jopher Montano.

But he has to choose his battles moving forward.

Or better yet, truly determine his most appropriate fighting weight and division.

An unsolicited advice, of course.

The author Teodoro Medina Reynoso is a veteran boxing radio talk show host living in the Philippines. He can be reached at teddyreynoso@yahoo.com and by phone 09215309477.


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