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Yo-Sam Choi

BORN   March 1 1972; Jeongeup, Jeollabukdo
DIED January 2 2008; Asan, South Korea
HEIGHT 5-4
WEIGHT 105-116 1/2 lbs

Choi was a talented fighter who won 32 of 37 bouts and scored 19 knockouts; At a time when he appeared to be reaching the peak of his career and following an exhausting fight with Heri Amol, he collapsed and died a week later; During his career,he won the WBC Light Flyweight Championship of the World, the WBO Inter-Continental Flyweight Championship and the OBPF Light Flyweight Championship

Yo-Sam defeated such men as Saman Sorjaturong, Heri Amol, Shingo Yamaguchi, Kenzo Ando, Nathan Ballerda, Jun Arlos and Bert Batawang

 
1993
Jul  3 Tae-Kil Lee                Seoul, South Korea                  W  4
Sep 25 Chul-Ho Chin               Daejeon, South Korea                W  4
Nov 13 Sang-Chul Lee              Donghae City, South Korea          KO  1

1994
Jan 10 Heung-Won Lee              Seoul, South Korea                  W  6
Jan 14 Sang-Soo Kim               Seoul, South Korea                  W  6
Jan 17 Sang-Chul Lee              Seoul, South Korea                  W  6
Oct 22 Lee Escobido               Pusan, South Korea                  W  8

1995
Jan 15 Bert Batawang              Chongup, South Korea                W 10
May 21 Bruce Espectacion          Chuncheon, South Korea             KO  4
Jul 30 Jun Arlos                  Seoul, South Korea                  W 10
Sep 23 Woo-Hee Chang              Seoul, South Korea                 KO  7
Nov 24 Sang-Ik Yang               Ansan, South Korea                  L 10
          -Light Flyweight Championship of Korea

1996
Mar  7 Bong-Jae Baek              Suwon City, South Korea            KO  2
Jun  2 Allan Llanita              Seongnam City, South Korea         KO  5
Dec  3 Kenzo Ando                 Osaka, Japan                        W 12
          -OPBF Light Flyweight Championship

1997
Mar 15 Allan Llanita              Yeuchul, South Korea               KO  5
          -OPBF Light Flyweight Championship
May 25 Nathan Ballerda            Gwangju City, South Korea          KO  4

1998
Apr 10 Jun Arlos                  Cheonan, South Korea                W 12
          -OPBF Light Flyweight Championship
Aug 27 Regie Palabrica            Seongnam City, South Korea         KO  2
          -OPBF Light Flyweight Championship

1999
May 10 Rolando Baclayo            Suwon City, South Korea            KO  1
Jul  6 Martin Acevedo             Pusan, South South Korea           TK  5
Oct 17 Saman Sorjaturong          Seoul, South Korea                  W 12
          -WBC Light Flyweight Championship of the World

2000
Jun 17 Chart Kiatpetch            Seoul, South Korea                 KO  5
          -WBC Light Flyweight Championship of the World

2001
Jan 30 Saman Sorjaturong          Seoul, South Korea                 KO  7
          -WBC Light Flyweight Championship of the World

2002
Feb 23 Shingo Yamaguchi           Urayasu, Japan                     TK 10
          -WBC Light Flyweight Championship of the World
Jul  6 Jorge "Travieso" Arce      Seoul, South Korea                 LT  6
          -WBC Light Flyweight Championship of the World

2003
May 30 Jae-Ho Kim                 Seoul, South Korea                 KO  4
Sep 27 Jin Ho Kim                 Seoul, South Korea                 KO  4
Nov 15 Beibis Mendoza             Yeosu, South Korea                  L 12
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World

2004
Mar 27 Federico Catubay           Seoul, South Korea                  L 10
Sep  9 Lorenzo Parra              Seoul, South Korea                  L 12
          -WBA Flyweight Championship of the World

2005
Jun 17 Nopadetchlek Chuwatana     Bucheon, South Korea               KO  5

2006
Dec 30 Nopadetchlek Chuwatana     Seoul, South Korea                 KO  1

2007
Mar  4 Pradabsri Siwagon          Seoul, South Korea                 KO  1
May 24 Kenichi Onishi             Seoul, South Korea                 KO  9
Sep 16 Terdkiat Jandaeng          Seoul, South Korea                  W 12
          -WBO Inter-Continental Flyweight Championship
Dec 25 Heri Amol                  Seoul, South Korea                  W 12
          -WBO Inter-Continental Flyweight Championship
Record courtesy of Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization

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