THAI and WBO No.2 challenger Pornsawan Kratengdaenggym has come prepared and is ready to take the vacant WBO minimumweight belt when he goes home on Oct. 1.
Speaking with the help of an interpreter, Porsawan said ?I have prepared long and hard. Philippines have three world champions now and Thailand has noone as of the moment. I want to bring the world title back to Thailand and make my country proud.?
Pornsawan will fight ALA Boy Donnie ?Ahas? Nietes, the WBO No.1 contender on Sept. 30 in the WBO World Boxing Championship which will be aired over Solar Sports and RPN-9 on delayed telecast.
Carrying an unscathed 20-0, peppered with 15 KOs record, Pornsawan brought a souvenir from his birthplace in Koksung, Sakaew? a rope formed into a snake.
?It?s an old Thai tradition. The rope symbolizes a neutralizer for snakes. We believe that if we carry this rope, we can control the snake at any time,? said Pornsawan.
As usual, Nietes, 19-1-3, 11 KOs, carried a snake around his shoulder, this time a five-foot long three-month old python, that he nurtured since it was still an egg.
Opportunity
?I am ready and I am not going to let this opportunity slip out of my hands. I will win this fight and I will win the belt,? Nietes said.
WBO vice president and Asia-Pacific chairman Leon Panoncillo Jr. introduced a ?very fair officials? to ensure what happened to Z Gorres last Feb. 24 won?t happen again.
Raul Caiz Jr., whose father Raul Sr. was one of the judges when Gorres challenged Fernando Montiel, will be the third man inside the ring, while the ringside judges are Levi Martinez of the US, Sawaeng Taweekoon of Thailand and the Philippines? Salven Lagumbay.
Another featured fight is the WBO Youth superflyweight championship between the undefeated youthful sensation AJ ?Bazooka? Banal against Mexican Esau Gaona for 10 rounds.
Gaona, the Mexican Pacific Coast 115-lb. champion, will try to stop the winning streak of Banal over his countrymen.
Gaona parades a 16-3-1, 10 KOs record to test the 14-0-1, 11 KOs mark of Banal.
Other featured fights of the card include Yong Seung Kim of Korea vs. Sapapetch Sor Sakaorat of Thailand for the WBO interim intercontinental jr. welterweight championship; Do Sek Ooh of Korea vs. Hero Katili of Indonesia for the WBF Asia Pacific Jr. welterweight championship; Robert Allanic defending this WBO Asia Pacific Bantamweight title against In Suk Song of Korea.
Rocky Fuentes will also defend his first RP flyweight title against former Olympian Danilo Lerio and James Bacon will fight Roldan Sayson for a four -round super featherweight special bout.
