In a one-sided fight, WBO featherweight champion Steven Luevano (35-1, 15 KOs) defeated former kick boxer from Thailand Terdsak Jandaeng (29-3, 19 KOs) by 12-round unanimous decision at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was very little suspense in the fight other than in the fourth round when Luevano, 27, got careless was was knocked down by a short left hand from Jandaeng.
However, Luevano got up and survived the round, and continued his complete mastery of Jandaeng for the remaining eight rounds of the fight. The final judges’ scores were 118-109, 119-109 and 119-109, all for Luevano. Jandaeng’s face was badly swollen up around both eyes and his the right side of his eye was cut from the many jabs he absorbed from Luevano during the bout.
Luevano controlled the first two rounds, using his jab and movement to keep the harder punching – but limited – Dandaeng from connecting with his own harder, but slower shots. In the 2nd round, Jandaeng was cut on the corner of his right eye, and his face had already began to swell.
In the third and fourth, Luevano continued jabbing and moving, pounding the plodding Jandaeng with jabs and forming him to charge in after him. Only rarely was Jandaeng able to land up until then. However, that changed in the fourth when Luevano got a little lazy and began to stand in front of Jandaeng, allowing him to throw punches from close range. This resulted in Jandaeng loading up with a short left hand that knocked Luevano to the canvas.
It appeared that Luevano hadn’t been prepared for the power of the shot, for up until that time, he had been mostly staying on the outside where he was safe from the power shots of Jandaeng. After getting up, Luevano took several more big left hand shots from Jandaeng, but was able to make it out of the round without going down again. In fact, Luevano quickly returned fire just before the round ended, sending Jandaeng to the canvas. However, the referee ruled it a slip. The left side of Jandaeng’s eye was cut in this round, matching a cut on his right side.
In rounds five through eight, Luevano made it a point to constantly move and keep Jandaeng from getting close enough to land any shots. It worked perfectly, for Luevano was rarely hit during these rounds and spent most of the time shooting jabs into Jandaeng’s steadily reddening face. By the end of the 8th, Jandaeng looked as if he was a war survivor, his face badly swollen and cut around both eyes.
In rounds nine and ten, Jandaeng did little, though he did apply some rough stuff with forearms to the head and rough wrestling on the inside. He landed next to nothing in the ninth, whereas in the 10th, he made a big effort at the start of the round and was able to connect with a half dozen punches. However, Luevano quickly shut him down with movement and a rapid fire jab that kept Jandaeng bottled up on the outside.
In the eleventh and twelfth rounds, Jandaeng landed some really big shots as he was completely desperate at this point and began charging in at Luevano. Most of the time this would result in him taking punishment on the way in, but he didn’t seem to mind too much. One particular big left hook almost knocked Luevano’s mouthpiece out and it seemed for a second that he was hurt as he backed up with his hand to his mouth after taking the shot, but in fact was only trying to re-insert his mouthpiece which was dangling out of his mouth. Jandaeng would land a number of big shots in the 12th round, but Luevano took them without any problems and continued to move and jab, making it hard for Jandaeng to land more than one punch.