[Crimson]

Sunday, December 20th, 1992
Northlands Arena; Edmonton, Canada
Scotty “Bulldog” Olson 24-0-1 (17) Canada IBF WBO
vs.
Yun-Un Chin 28-0-2 (18) Korea WBC WBA
Scotty Olson returned home to Canada to fight before a sellout crowd of Canadian fans that had filled the Edmonton Oilers “Northlands Arena” to a full house capacity of 16,839. The Canadian sports fans love their hockey more than any other sport by far, but they also enjoy a good fight and eagerly turned out in support of Scotty Olson’s quest to become the undisputed Fly Weight World Champion.

Olson was listed as a 2-1 favorite to fulfill his dream of winning the Fly Weight World Championship. Chin emerged into this championship match having beaten some very long odds. Prior to the tournament’s first fight, Chin was listed as a 30-1 underdog to win it all. While Olson, had been listed at 10-1 odds to win the entire tournament.

After his surprising win over Yui Arbachakov in the hostile confines of the Russian’s hometown, Chin was looking very confident at the weigh-in for his Championship match with Olson. With the styles of both fighters, who refused to take a backward step when fighting and were not adverse to taking a punch to land one of their own bombs, this promised to be a brawl that boxing fans would love. Defense was not a strong area for either and both had a tendency to cut and swell up. The “Northland Arena” was thunderlously loud while Olson made his walk to the ring.

After a mutually tentative feeling out 1st round the two warriors began trading leather with abandon on fairly equal terms. In the 4th referee, Micky Vann of England, took 1 point away from Olson for excessive rabbit punching and was serenaded with boos from the crowd.

Chin had an excellent 6th round. Olson was hurt by a series of body shots and forced to hold on. Moments later he was rocked by a right hand. In reply Olson mocked Chin feigning being hurt, but in reality it looked like false bravado and that his bell had been rung quite hard. Before the round ended Olson took a thumb in the eye from Chin and momentarily turned away in pain. The left eye immediately began to close and despite Olson’s cutman, working on it feverishly during the rest period, it was already nearly ½ closed (8) at the start of round 7. Ringside Expert, Dave Rodman, had it 58-57 for Chin.

Olson came out with a vengeance in the 7th and landed several early bombs, but Chin replied in kind with his own torpedoes. One of which deposited Olson on the canvas! Using the nearby ropes to pull himself up, Olson beat the count at 8.

Olson was carrying his hands low in the 8th, a result of Chin’s ruthless body attack. The Canadian began boxing defensively, a very uncommon style for the slugger. However, he did possess underused boxing skills from his days as a world class amateur and was able to win the 8th and 9th rounds.

Chin became more aggressive than ever in the 10th, sensing that the end might be near for Olson and his own time as the Fly Weight World Champion was on the verge of arrival! When Chin upped his attack and Olson little to no answer. Olson was soon badly hurt, but refused to hold or move away. He mostly just absorbed one left and right hand after another. The Candian’s left eye was now just a mass of swollen flesh (15) and for all practical purposes was closed. Despite not being knocked down, it was a one sided enough round to warrant being scored 10-8 for Chin.

Olson took more shellacking in the 11th round, but continued to fire enough punches in reply to prevent referee, Micky Vann, from stopping it. With 18 seconds remaining in the round Vann brought Olson to the ringside doctor so that he could inspect he eye, which was now only a slit behind a mound of swollen flesh. Olson was emphatic in telling the doctor not to stop the fight and that his eyesight was fine.

“Bulldog” needed to do something dramatic to change the fight’s momentum in the 12th, but even to the most devoted of Olson’s fans it appeared highly unlikely. Chin had shown all fight that he could take Olson’s best shot and then reply with 2 or more that were better. Olson fought gamely, but was unable to match the firepower of Chin. With less than 20 seconds remaining in the round 12 Olson was knocked down for the 2nd time in the fight.

During the rest period, the doctor took a close look at his eye which now appeared to be completely closed (18), but allowed Olson out for the 13th round. Olson was able to rally in the 13th and outhustle Chin to win the round. Still, Ringside Expert, Dave Rodman, had Olson hopelessly behind at 127-119 going into the 14th round.

The fighters touched gloves to start the 15th and final round of this battle to determine the FLY WEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION. Olson’s aggression remained as constant in the 15th as it had been in the 1st round, but his defense was virtually non-existent. Chin was able to land and rattle Olson with virtually every punch he threw. THEN it happened. After Chin missed with a telegraphed right hand, which Olson ducked under, the Canadian countered with a powerful cross to the head of Chin that resulted in a knockdown! The crowd stood as one to their feet. Referee Micky Vann had to point the weary Olson to the neutral corner. The count reached “6” and Chin was still down. “7…8…”and Chin stood on very unsteady legs with 1:01 remaining in the fight.

Chin covered up, knowing that all he probably had to do was make it to the final bell and he would be awarded the decision. When the final bell rang, punch stat numbers favored Chin 416 to 327. Chin’s face was relatively unmarked compared to Olson’s, which was lumpy and had a virtually closed eye (16). The ring announcer read the scorecards, “Judge John Coyle of England has it 144-137, Judge Arthur Mercante Sr. of the United States has it 141-141 Even, and Judge Don Ackerman of the United States has it 142-139 for ….............................................THE WINNER................ AND NOW THE UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED FLY WEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION …................................................. ...........YUN-UN CHIN!!!!!!”

There were a few scattered boos, some polite applause, but mostly the decision was greeted with silence by the pro-Olson crowd.

Yun-Un Chin Wm15 Scotty Olson (wins WORLD FLY WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP, IBF and WBOtitles, defends WBA and WBC titles)