Brave lion-heart Filipino Alvin Medura (10-6, 7 KO's) lost by points to Thailand's world-ranked WBC # 14 WBA # 10 Tasana Salapat (65-1, 48 KO's), Tuesday night, at the Rangsit Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Kingdom of Thailand.  

With the 10-round unanimous decision win, Salapat retained his WBC Asia Continental Bantamweight Title. 

There were no knockdowns throughout the action clash dominated by the taller Thai fighter who made good use of his superior boxing skills, landing on the tough Pinoy with accurate left uppercuts, right jabs and right hooks.

Nevertheless, Medura, strong as a bull, was able to take Salapat's best power shots, never getting in serious trouble. 

Medura landed some punches of his own manufacture, winning a couple of chapters, but the southpaw Salapat's boxing was indeed effective.

There were two accidental hard clashes of heads mid-fight, but luckily no boxer got cut and no points were deducted. 

At the end of the battle, the two men embraced in the middle of the ring, showing sportsmanship, and then, scorecards were read.

Numbers were unanimous - 97-93 (x2) and 99-91 in favor of Salapat, who wants a second world shot at the bantamweight title.

The current bantamweight kings are: WBA/IBF Naoya Inoue, WBC Nonito Donaire and WBO Johnriel Casimero.

   

Naoya and Nonito are locking horns in a super hot rematch on June 7 at Saitama’s Super Arena.  

Tuesday’s evening of boxing in Bangkok was a production of Diamond Boxing live on True4U Channel 24.  Supervisor for WBC Asia was Dr. Thawuth Pluemsamran. 

The author veteran boxing writer Carlos Costa can be reached at carlos512@hotmail.com and WhatsApp +639184538152.