Two Australian-based Filipino fighters take on Thai opponents in Toowoomba, Queensland, on Saturday, March 3, according to their trainer Todd Makelim this week.
Jack ‘The Assassin‘ Asis, a natural featherweight who became Australian light-welterweight champion in August 2011, faces a Thai slugger with 22 wins (20 by knockout) simply called King Kong, in a six-round tune-up before heading to the USA for bigger stakes.
Light-welterweight Cesar Amonsoc, fresh from a campaign in Las Vegas, will be matched against a second Thai for another six-rounder.
”I have some offers to take Jack to the United States this year,” Makelim said. ”Promoters up there have expressed interest in him, and that’s what he needs. Local fighters here are shying away from him.”
The latest addition of Makelim’s boxing stable at Campbelltown in Sydney’s southwest is rugged lightweight Joel de la Cruz, who scored an impressive unanimous decision over 10 rounds to take the IBO Asia-Pacific championship [title] from Australia’s Ryan Langam on the Gold Coast.
”Joel put Ryan on the canvas three times,” Makelim said. ”Ryan had come to the fight with an impressive record of 15 wins and only two losses.
”The local crowd up in Queensland was actually cheering for Joel toward the end of the match. What a performance for a new arrival.”