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Mark Sales is First Pinoy Boxing Casualty Abroad By Teodoro Medina Reynoso PhilBoxing.com Tue, 14 Jan 2025  Mark Sales. Korea-based 43-year-old Filipino veteran journeyman Mark Sales became the first Pinoy boxing casualty this new year after losing by 8 round unanimous decision to South Korean Min Ho Jung in their main event bout Saturday night at the Nova Boxing Gymnasium in Incheon. Sales was able to knock down his taller 31-year-old opponent in the second round but was thoroughly outclassed in dropping to his 50th pro boxing defeat. All the three Korean judges scored it 78-73 for Jung who raised his pro record to 18-5-2 with 5 KO victories. Sales who started pro boxing in 1997 dropped his record to 25-50. Jung has won his third straight since failing his bid for the WBO Asia Pacific lightweight losing on points to Japanese Katsuda Yasuda in 2023 in Tokyo. After fighting his last bout in the Philippines which he lost to Rodel Wenceslao in 2022, Sales went on a semi retirement in 2023. He then came back to boxing last year but has since been based in South Korea where he had four bouts in 2024, all of which he lost. Sales has had two previous semi retirements previously, the longest between 2006 and 2011. Since turning to prizefighting, Sales has rose up in weight from flyweight and is currently campaigning as a super lightweight. As a bantamweight, he once fought and lost on points to a then fledgling Nonito Donaire, Jr. who would later become multi-weight division world champion. His other prominent foes included Pongsaklek Wonjomkang and Terdsak Jandaeng to whom he lost on points and Bernabe Concepcion whom he decisioned in 2005. It had previously been discovered that supposedly retired aging Filipino fighters taken as trainers abroad also moonlighted as part time boxers in their host countries without prior information to and authorization from the GAB. The case of Sales is different in that though now based in South Korea, he has remained an active GAB-licensed boxer and in fact is listed among the ranks of the country's super lightweight fighters per boxrec. However, how much longer and how many more losses before our boxing authorities force Sales to hang them up for keeps and for his own good? 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. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Teodoro Medina Reynoso.  |
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