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Fight Report: Loei, Thailand: Stamp Kiatniwat vs Gregorio Lebron

29th July, 2015. Loei, Thailand: Fly: Stamp Kiatniwat (14-0) W PTS 12 Gregorio Lebron (13-3).

Thai Stamp Kiatniwat wins the interim WBA title but Dominican Gregorio Lebron was robbed by a disgraceful decision. Lebron made a good start in the first round pushing the young Thai back and scoring with left jab/straight right combinations. That changed when Kiatniwat landed two heavy rights which sent Lebron tumbling to the side and down. He got up and was ready to fight on when the eight count was completed but it was a big first round for Kiatniwat. The second was fairly even and then Lebron took over. He gave the Thai a boxing lesson over the next seven rounds. Jab, hooks, uppercuts he could not miss Kiatniwat constantly driving him back around the ring slotting home jabs and banging home counters. Kiatniwat was throwing wild swings and every time he did he left himself open and off balance and Lebron was making it a one-sided fight. In the eighth and ninth it even looked as though Lebron might win inside the distance as he landed punch after punch with Kiatniwat getting driven back by and looking as though he was about to be overwhelmed.

What kept him in the fight was Lebron’s lack of power and the Thai’s rock-hard chin. Kiatniwat landed a hard left hook/right cross early in the tenth but Lebron fired back. Suddenly a punch from Lebron when Kiatniwat was anticipating a break call stung the Thai into action. He landed a right cross and left hook which shook Lebron then landed two clubbing rights to the head which sent Lebron down on his back. The Dominican was up at six and survived to the bell by running and holding. Kiatniwat came out swinging wildly in the eleventh and scored with two head punches but once again Lebron was finding huge gaps in the Thai’s non-existent defence and rocked him with a peach of a right uppercut with Kiatniwat again eating jab after jab and being forced on the defence. Kiatniwat scored with some heavy punches early in the last but then again Lebron was forcing him back out-landing the Thai and already celebrating before the final bell.

The Thai’s corner was very subdued but then came the ridiculous scoring giving Kiatniwat the decision on scores of 117-109, 116-112 and 113-113. Lebron was robbed. Kiatniwat had two 10-8 rounds and for me Lebron won the other 10 rounds clearly although I have to say that others who have seen the fight thought it was a good decision. At 17 Kiatniwat becomes the youngest ever Thai world champion. He is strong and has a great chin but seems to think de-fence is a French garden partition and is very crude. Dominican Lebron, 33, deserves a return but won’t get it.