True Arena Hua Hin Hosts The 2018 IBF Silk Road Champions & IBF World Muay Thai
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he 2018 IBF Silk Road Champions Tournament & IBF World Muay Thai Championship was held in TRUE Arena Hua Hin, Thailand on December 8th. The event was the start of IBF Belt & Road Region's (IBF B&R) new journey in Belt and Road countries. There were 4 Eliminator bouts in the games. Thailand boxer Pipat Chaiporn and Filipino fighter Eugene Lagos competed for the qualification of Junior Featherweight of IBF Silk Road Champions Tournament Finals and they ended with a tie after 10 rounds. Japanese boxer Ryo Takenaka defeated Filipino fighter Lorence Rosas on Junior
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Lightweight Eliminator in the end of the 5th round. Thai boxer Komsan Polsan won the final qualification of Junior Middleweight after overcoming Uzbek fighter Dostonbek Turdiev in the event. Thai fighter Sukpraserd Ponpitak conquered Filipino fighter Joseph Ambo in the Bantamweight Eliminator bout after 10 rounds' confrontation. The winners will compete with those who stood out from the last three promotion events which were held in Macau and Beijing successively. The game held in Hua Hin was the last event before the Finals in the 2018 season.
Wang Ruihang, president of IBF B&R, said, "IBF Silk Road Champions Tournament was carrying out the "Go Out" strategy under the guidance of the Belt and Road Initiative. Aside from Thailand, Russia, Japan, South Korea and North Korea, even some African countries bid for running of the IBF Silk Road Champions Tournaments." IBF B&R plans to increase the number of games held in countries and regions along the Belt and Road area from 2019 and will make the tournament an international platform for showing multiple cultures, embodying true level of professional boxing of relative
