By Jason Kim: In a bit of good news for lightweight boxer Czar Amonsot (18-3-1, 10 KOs), he’s been reportedly given the okay to continue his boxing career. Previously, Amonsot, 23, was examined after his grueling 12-round decision loss to knockout artist Michael Katsidis on July 21st, 2007, in which the medical examination showed a small amount of blood outside his brain. That result of the tests kept Amonsot out of boxing for the past year and a half.
However, according to Philboxing, an MRI was conducted at the Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital in September, and following the results, Amonsot was given the okay to continue fighting. Amonsot, 23, will be facing Zoel Fidal (16-6-2, 7 KO’s) later this month on January 31st.
Amonsot fought well against Katsidis, who was hugely favored by many boxing experts leading up to their July 2007 fight at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Both Amonsot and Katsidis traded huge shots in rounds one and two, with Katsidis getting slightly the better of the action. However, in the 2nd round, Katsidis landed a huge right hand, knocking Amonsot down.
Amonsot got up and continued fighting well, resulting in swell around Katisidis’ left eye and a bloody nose. Amonsot continued firing off bomb after bomb and getting the better of the Australian fighter. By the 7th round, Katsidis was starting to show severe swelling around both eyes, a product of the big power shots that Katsidis was landing in the fight.
Katsidis’s left eye was bleeding now, but he was still fighting very well, landing power shots to the head of Amonsot. Katsidis was looking slightly tired now, but was still able to put a tremendous amount of power in each punch, but not that much more than the big punches from Amonsot.
Things were starting to look bad for Katsidis by the 10th round, as his left eye was now cut to ribbons, putting the fight in dangerous of being stopped. Knowing that he had to fight as hard as possible and try to score a knockout, Katsidis began to put even more power in his shots, risking everything as he stalked Amonsot around the ring, absorbing a great deal of punishment from the Filipino fighter as he went.
In the 10th, Katsidis nailed Amonsot with a huge right hand, sending him down to the canvas for the second time in the bout. Amonsot got up and weathered a storm as Katsidis fought hard trying to end the fight with power shots.
Amonsot took the shots without going down again, even throwing some hard bombs of his own. Both fighters went toe-to-toe in the 11th and 12th rounds, with neither of them thinking about defense. At the end of the fight, Katsidis’ face looked bad, bleeding from his left eye, badly swollen and looking as if he were ran over by a tractor trailer. The final judges’ scores were 116-110, 114-112 and 115-111.
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