Greed will knockout boxing

People from around the world are speaking up against the unethical practice of promoters arranging fights between mismatched boxers.

The Manila Standard Today reports about Scott Mallon, the editor in chief of Asian Boxing News questioning the record and the qualification of Pichitchok Sinamanassak, a Thailander, and Liempetch Sor Veerapol.

Sinamanassak will fight the World Boxing Oriental junior featherweight champion Ciso "Kid Terrible" Morales on February 21.

Singmanassak has a record of 10 wins, 8 defeats, with six knockout. Despite the aforesaid record, including his three defeats in the last four fights, Sinamanassak is still rated the no. 5 bantamweight.

Mallon also alleges that Sinamanassak initial fight records were hoax and were even deleted from boxrec.com. How can the World Boxing Organization sanction a title fight for a fighter who has lost three of his last four fights, Mallon wonders.

Mallon also questions the qualification of Liempetch Sor Veerapol (12-4, 8KOs) who is also fighting against the undefeated Marvin Sonsona (10-0, with 9 knockout).

Liempetch, the no. 4 light flyweight in the Asia Pacific ratings, was knocked-out in Talisay City last October 3 by Jhonreil Casimiro in a bid to win the World Boxing Organization Asia Pacific light weight title. Now, Liempetch is moving up weight to fight Sonsona. What has he done to even deserve a title shot, the editor wonders.

With more and more people speaking up, it will not be too long the sport of boxing will suffer it's own crunch. Integrity crunch. Once this comes, we will see who will bail us out.