What was Sor Rungvisai thinking? That’s the only thing most boxing fans could wonder after he dropped his WBC super flyweight title in a unanimous 116-112, 115-113, 115-113 decision loss to Juan Fransisco Estrada in a bizarre but entertaining bout. While he hadn’t been fighting elite competition in Thailand and is now 32 years old, this loss wasn’t about Rungvisai’s slipping or aging, it was all about his decision to fight out of the orthodox stance.
Nobody in boxing media could figure out why the usually southpaw fighter fought out of the orthodox stance for so many of the fight’s early rounds, long after it had become clear that the strategy wasn’t working.