AFP, Los Angeles :
Thai dynamo Srisaket Sor Rungvisai is ready to back up his spectacular 2017, starting with a defense of his World Boxing Council super flyweight world title against Mexico’s Juan Francisco Estrada on Saturday.
Both fighters made weight on Friday for their world title showdown at the Forum in Los Angeles — former home of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Srisaket, virtually unknown to US fight fans last year, shot to prominence with an upset of former pound-for-pound king Roman Gonzalez at Madison Square Garden last March.
His majority decision win was tabbed the 2017 “Upset of the Year.”
Some, however, believed Gonzalez deserved the decision. But Srisaket silenced doubters with a spectacular fourth-round knockout of Nicaragua’s Gonzalez in the rematch in September.
