FILE – Filipino boxer Jerwin Ancajas. He made his ring return in entrance of the Filipino crowd on Sunday at Manny Pacquiao’s Blow-by-Blow. –Steve Marcus/Getty Photographs/AFP
MANILA, Philippines–Jerwin Ancajas’ comeback combat got here to a swift finish on Sunday. However not the best way the previous world champion needed it to.
Combating in entrance of a house crowd for the primary time in eight years, Ancajas received by disqualification in opposition to Thai journeyman Sukpraserd Ponpitak within the co-main occasion of Manny Pacquiao’s Blow-by-Blow at Mandaluyong Metropolis Faculty health club.
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The referee waived off the combat on the 2:34 mark of the fifth spherical after Pontipak pushed Ancajas down off a clinch regardless of being deducted and repeatedly warned within the earlier rounds.
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Ancajas made his presence felt early, sending Pontipak to the canvas with a counter proper and regarded primed for a knockout victory.
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However the veteran Pontipak made it a rugged encounter that annoyed Ancajas, who was illegally taken down a few instances within the supposed scheduled 10-rounder.
The 36-year-old Pontipak, who suffered the twentieth lack of his profession, was deducted some extent within the third spherical.
Ancajas, 32, nonetheless, improved to 35-4-2 with 23KOS in his ring return seven months after a surprising knockout loss to Takuma Inoue in Tokyo.
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A leaner Ancajas additionally made his featherweight debut after struggling to make weight in his final couple of fights at tremendous flyweight the place he was as soon as the IBF world champion from 2016 to 2022.
After dropping his title to Argentina’s Fernando Martinez, who dominated him twice in 2022, Ancajas made a profitable climb to 118 kilos and stopped Colombia’s Wilner Sotto eight months later however failed to assert the WBA bantamweight belt in opposition to Inoue.
Having misplaced three of his final 4 fights previous to the combat in opposition to Pontipak, Ancajas is raring to place his identify again into world title rivalry.
Ancajas, nonetheless, should wait for an additional alternative make his case.
