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Originally Posted by Infinity

I see Ricardo Lopez holding all the marbles at the end of this one....

(So do I, but one of the great things about boxing, and something TBCB does a fantastic job of mirroring, is you never know! Lopez came out as a
5-2 favorite, which were much closer odds than I had expected. I'm looking forward to the battle and there being an undisputed WORLD STRAW WEIGHT CHAMPION!)


Straw Weight World Championship
Friday, December 18th, 1992
Fronton Mexico; Mexico City, Mexico

15 Rounds of boxing
for the undisputed STRAW WEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP!

RICARDO “Finito” LOPEZ
35-0 (23) WBC and WBA Champ
MEXICO
VS.
Fhalan Lukmingkwan
23-1-1 (20) IBF and WBO Champ
THAILAND

Ricardo Lopez finally got to fight in front of his home country fans, and it would be in the biggest fight yet of his young career. Odds makers had installed him as a 5-2 favorite. Some of Lukmingkwan’s Thailand fans had made the trip to Mexico to cheer their hero on, but they could not be heard among the 9,000+ who jammed into the historic and decaying “Fronton Mexico”. Built in 1929, the once beautiful arena had held Jai Lai matches for years and occasionally other sporting or political events.

The knockdown Lopez absorbed in his previous fight against the light punching Hi-Yong Choi, gave underdog betters and Lukmingkwan reason to question the durability of Lopez’ chin against world class competition. For the heavy handed Thai, who had 20 of his 23 wins by KO or TKO, there was reason for hope that he could hurt and take Lopez out.