July 27, 2016 Marlon Tapales vs Pungluang Sor Singyu at Ayutthaya, Thailand for the WBO World bantamweight title
Filipino Marlon ‘Maranding Nightmare’ Tapales overcome two knock downs in round 5 and stop Pungluang Sor Singyu in the 11th round to win the WBO World bantamweight title, In his previous fight Pungluang knocked out AJ Banal to halt his dream of becoming a champion but Marlon Tapales is a different story Tapales was badly hurt in the 5th round with these hard body punches from Pungluang.
The Filipino showed big hearth and the never say die spirit and found a way to survive the round, in round six Tapales returns the favor by knock down Pungluang for the first time in the fight and finally in round 11 Tapales landed flurry of punches to the body followed by a hard left to the forehead of Pungluang that ended the fight.
Fight Highlights: Tapales down twice in Round 5; Pungluang down once in Round 6 and Round 11.