Video: Boxing's Leading Fight of the Year Candidate: Pornsawan Porpramook vs. Akira Yaegashi

On October 24th, Japan’s Akira Yaegashi met Thailand’s Pornsawan Porpramook for the WBA 105 pound title. Over the last week, it has slowly gained traction as the leading contender for boxing’s Fight of the year. The video of the full fight is above and it is every bit as brutal and exciting as a potential fight of the year should be. I’ll let BoxingScene.com break down some of the choicest action:

With at least three round of the year candidates, it is the eighth round meriting leader status for round of the year.

Badly swelling around the eyes, Porpramook took a bad beating in the first minute or so, backed into the ropes more than once and looking like his lights were about to be put out.  A counter right off the ropes staggered Yaegashi and changed the momentum of the round.  Leaving every bit of himself out there to save his belt, Porpramook came forward with loaded bombs, Yaegashi fighting to keep his feet and his challenge alive.  In the closing moments, Yaegashi was back into the action, both men seen winging arm shots through the fog of sheer exhaustion.

There were still two rounds to go.

Rounds one through four are good, but the fight moves into classic mode in the fifth. By the seventh? All Hell has broken loose between these two. The eighth is insane and by the ninth it is amazing that these guys can even lift their arms any more. It is a definite classic and worth all of the 37 minutes of your life you’ll need to watch.

[BoxingScene.com]