Who won Zou vs Phaprom?
Shiming Zou beat Prasitsak Papoem by unanimous decision in their 12 round contest on Saturday 5th November 2016 at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
The scorecards were announced as 120-107, 120-107, 119-108 in favor of winner Shiming Zou.
The fight was scheduled to take place over 12 rounds in the Flyweight division, which meant the weight limit was 112 pounds (8 stone or 50.8 KG).
This contest was for the WBO flyweight championship of the world.
Zou vs Phaprom stats
Back in November 2016, Shiming Zou stepped into the ring with a record of 8 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws, 2 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.
Prasitsak Papoem made his way to the ring with a record of 39 wins, 1 loss and 2 draws, with 24 of those wins by knock out.
The stats suggested Papoem had a massive power advantage over Zou, boosting at 62% knock out percentage over Zou's 25%.
Shiming Zou was the same age as Prasitsak Papoem, at 35 years old.
Zou had a height advantage of 3 inches over Papoem.
Both Shiming Zou & Prasitsak Papoem fought out of an orthodox stance.
Zou was the less experienced professional fighter, having had 33 less fights, and made his debut in 2013, 3 year and 2 months later than Papoem, whose first professional fight was in 2010. He had fought 148 less professional rounds, 98 to Papoem's 246.
Zou vs Phaprom form
Zou had beaten 4 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 1 of them, going the distance 3 times.
In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had won against Jozsef Ajtai on 11th June 2016 by unanimous decision in their 10 round contest at Madison Square Garden, New York, United States.
Previous to that, he had won against Natan Santana Coutinho on 30th January 2016 by technical knockout in the 8th round at Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai, China.
Going into that contest, he had been beaten by Amnat Ruenroeng on 7th March 2015 by unanimous decision in their IBF World Flyweight championship fight at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China.
Before that, he had beat Prasitsak Papoem on 23rd November 2014 by unanimous decision in their 12 round contest at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao.
He had defeated Luis de la Rosa on 19th July 2014 by unanimous decision in their 10 round contest at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao.
Activity check
Zou's last 5 fights had come over a period of 2 years, 3 months and 17 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 5 months and 17 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 52 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 10.4 rounds on average.
What time did Zou vs Phaprom start?
The fighters were expected to ringwalk at around 12:00 AM EST / 9:00 PM PST at Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, United States, which was around 4:00 AM GMT in the UK.
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