Tso, Tauasa, Lumacad & Ngoma New UBO Champions

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April 27, 2012 / BY UBO PRESS OFFICER

With prominent spectators at ringside such as British icon Ricky Hatton, who would present the UBO belts to the new champions, it turned out to be a scintillating evening of boxing in front of a packed arena, with the best of what Chinese professional boxing has to offer. The event was labeled Thursday Night Fights II.

Local hero Rex Tso is the new UBO Asia Pasific Super Flyweight Champion after a stunning performance against Thailand’s Torsak Singabasak. Tso put pressure on the visitor from the first bell, and after scoring a knockdown after thirty seconds with a left hook, landed a perfect body shot that send Singbanasak down for the full count at 1:55 of the first round.

Undefeated at 6-0 (4), Tso impressed many ringsiders with his determination and obvious talent, including former world champion Hatton, who said:

“He did everything perfect. He outboxed the other lad from the word go. He got the knock-out he wanted. He had a lovely body shot. Yes, I was very well impressed”.

Hong Kong-based Samoan banger Lawrence Tauasa won the vacant UBO International Heavyweight title with an impressive second round knockout of Australian Grant Horwood. After a slow first round where he seemed to be taking stock of his opponent, who came in on short notice, it was all Tauasa from the start of the second.

Tauasa came out fast in round two and looked determined to get a quick finish, as he ripped in punishing bodyshots on Horwood. The Australian took the first few well, but eventually it was too much for him and he went down after taking another hard shot to the body followed by a flurry to the head.

Horwood beat the count of referee Bruce McTavish, but Touasa was smelling blood and immediately went for the kill. After another cracking bodyshot Horwood went down again, and this time he couldn’t get back up. It was a great performance by Tausasa, 33-9-1 (21), who could be fighting for the UBO World title in his next fight.

The absolute highlight of the evening was the performances of Filipinos Fernando Lumacad and Glenn Suminguit, who put on a true world class fight for the vacant UBO World Bantamweight title. Both boxers had their moments in the contest, and both showed excellent skills throughout twelve entertaining rounds of boxing.

However, Lumacad, 26-3-3 (11), was just a little bit better on the night than his fellow countryman, and in the end he was awarded a deserved unanimous decision by the judges. But Siminguit, three years younger than Lumacad at 23, showed great potential and will surely get a second chance at a world title at some point.

In the evenings second world title bout Lefoumbou “The Beast” Ngoma, originally from the Republic of the Congo but now based in Hong Kong, was all business as he dismantled former world title-challenger Plaisakda Singwancha from Thailand in the first round to lift the vacant UBO World Light Heavyweight title.

Ngoma, 9-2-1 (7), fully lived up to his nickname and knocked Singwancha down early before punishing him enough to force the referee to intervene at 2:21 of the round to the delight of his fans at ringside. Hugely popular in Hong Kong, he can also expect a hero’s welcome when he returns to Congo with his new World title belt.

All in all it was a spectacular night of boxing in Hong Kong, and the promoters can be proud of putting on an event of this magnitude. Four new UBO Champions were crowned, and Hong Kong boxing history was made. It’s hard to ask for much more on a Thursday night. Or any night.  
 

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