WhataRock
09-10-2008, 12:08 AM
Anyone game to rank him alltime at flyweight?
Personally I thought he was the best flyweight of the early naughties and probably the best flyweight since Too sharp at the time.
A lot of people grossly underrate Thai fighters achievments, I dont know if its they were left with bad taste in their mouths after seeing the ridiculous and disproportionate praise for Galaxy
May have fought most of career in asia but he did fight pretty good fighters. Beat Hussein, Naito (several times, always thought that they were better wins than people give him credit for, Naito is a good fighter and current champ), 3 time challenger Everado Morales, 2x challenger Honda, Trashy N, beat Tunanco for the title.
But the fact their were so many good names absent from his record doesnt score well for him. I clearly remember several of his opponants getting rankings out of no where just before they got a shot. Im pretty sure in one instance they had a fight signed and ready to go but the WBC hadnt ranked said fighter yet, he didnt enter the rankings till a week from the fight.
Then there was the whole debacle where he was the proper champ and Arce was the interim champ, and they were defending their titles at the same time, several times at that. That certainly didnt help his image.
I have no hard evidence but someone with Thai contacts explained to me that Team Wonjongkam had the cash to put this fight on but Team Arce didnt want to go to Thailand, and Suliman pacified them for as long as they wanted by letting them hold on the interim strap. Dont know how true that is or not, even he was suspicious because he knows the Thais can be very parochial and one eyed.
Personally I thought he was the best flyweight of the early naughties and probably the best flyweight since Too sharp at the time.
A lot of people grossly underrate Thai fighters achievments, I dont know if its they were left with bad taste in their mouths after seeing the ridiculous and disproportionate praise for Galaxy
May have fought most of career in asia but he did fight pretty good fighters. Beat Hussein, Naito (several times, always thought that they were better wins than people give him credit for, Naito is a good fighter and current champ), 3 time challenger Everado Morales, 2x challenger Honda, Trashy N, beat Tunanco for the title.
But the fact their were so many good names absent from his record doesnt score well for him. I clearly remember several of his opponants getting rankings out of no where just before they got a shot. Im pretty sure in one instance they had a fight signed and ready to go but the WBC hadnt ranked said fighter yet, he didnt enter the rankings till a week from the fight.
Then there was the whole debacle where he was the proper champ and Arce was the interim champ, and they were defending their titles at the same time, several times at that. That certainly didnt help his image.
I have no hard evidence but someone with Thai contacts explained to me that Team Wonjongkam had the cash to put this fight on but Team Arce didnt want to go to Thailand, and Suliman pacified them for as long as they wanted by letting them hold on the interim strap. Dont know how true that is or not, even he was suspicious because he knows the Thais can be very parochial and one eyed.