Kazakhstan-based sports publication Sports.kz reported on June 9, 2025, that Armenian boxer Yuri Sakunts defeated Thailand’s Padyod Kiadcharoensiri in Bangkok to capture the WBC Asia middleweight championship. The publication described the contest as a scheduled ten-round bout that ended by technical knockout in the second round. Sports.kz listed Sakunts’s professional record as 18 wins without defeat, including 16 stoppages, at the time of its report. These figures are historical and attributed to the original report.
The Kazakhstan outlet’s coverage places Sakunts’s regional championship result in a broader international boxing-news context.
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Publisher: Sports.kz · News origin: Kazakhstan · Published: 2025-06-09. This page is an independently written summary; claims are attributed to the linked original reporting.