By Ronnie Nathanielsz

THE credentials of the Thai opponents of World Boxing Organization Oriental junior featherweight champion Ciso ?Kid Terrible? Morales and WBO Asia Pacific Youth flyweight champion Marvin Sonsona are being questioned by Scott Mallon, editor in chief of Asian Boxing News.

Morales, who is undefeated with a record of 12-0, with 7 knockouts, is defending his title on Feb. 21 against Pichitchok Singmanassak, who has a woeful record of 10 wins as against 8 defeats, with 6 knockouts and has lost three of his last four fights but is rated no. 5 bantamweight.

One of those losses was Pichitchok?s seventh-round TKO at the hands of Jason Egera in a battle for the vacant WBO Asia Pacific bantamweight title in Thailand last July 8. In his last fight on Sept. 12, the Thai dropped a points? decision to Nicole Paradorngym.

Mallon charged that many of the fights in Pitchitchok?s initial fight record were fake and had been deleted on boxrec.com. At the same time, Mallon posed the question as to how the WBO could sanction a title shot by a fighter, who had lost three of his last four bouts.

In the case of Liempetch Sor Veerapol (12-4, 8 KOs), who clashes with the undefeated Sonsona (10-0 with 9 knockouts), the Asian Boxing News top executive claimed: ?The only guy he?s beaten with a winning record is Yodsaenkeng Por Choomnchok and this is out of 16 fights! What has he done to ever deserve a title shot??

Liempetch, who is ranked no. 4 light flyweight in the Asia Pacific ratings and lost by a sixth-round TKO to Jhonreil Casimiro in a battle for the vacant WBO Asia Pacific light flyweight title in Talisay City last Oct. 3, is even moving up in weight to fight Sonsona.

In fairness to promoter Sammy Gello-ani, the WBO Oriental junior lightweight interim champion Anthony ?Rocky? Marcial, who is also undefeated with a record of 11-0 with 10 knockouts, faces a worthy challenger in Vacharakrit Senathan based on the Thai?s record of 11-0 with 7 knockouts.

The main event, which is expected to be the major attraction, features Australian warrior Michael Katsidis (23-2, 20 KOs) against Argentina?s 31-year-old Angel Hugo Ramirez (19-4-2, 8 KOs) for the vacant WBO Asia Pacific lightweight title.

Katisidis is best remembered for his bloody brawl with Czar Amonsot for the interim world title after which both men wound up side by side in a Las Vegas hospital, where doctors discovered a tiny speck of blood outside Amonzot?s brain.