On May 19, 2000, Boonsai Sangsurat (20-0, 12 KOs), the flyweight WBC champion, defends his title against Filipino challenger, Malcolm Tuñacao (10-0, 6 KOs).
Boonsai Sangsurat is coming in to the fight on a 20-fight win streak with a 60% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Masaki Kawabata, 2 months and 24 days ago. Malcolm Tuñacao is on a 10-fight win streak with a 60% KO rate, with his last fight being a undefined win over Buddy Ledama, 3 months and 20 days ago.
This should be a confident win for Boonsai Sangsurat at 99-1 winning odds. Malcolm Tuñacao really doesn't have much to present against Sangsurat.
Malcolm Tuñacao stopped the champion via TKO in the 7th round of the 12-round world-title fight, winning the first world title of his career, and is crowned the new WBC flyweight champion. Tuñacao improves his record to 11-0 (7 KOs), while Sangsurat adds a loss to his record at 20-1.