[CONN CHRIS]

Here is Erdene Chuluum from the list. Like all the straws, hard to rate - these guys have short careers, fight for titles all the time, have the snot beat out of them by drunks pulled from the alley minutes before a fight, and then go out later on and dominate a boxer that I thought was realy good. Ah well, I won't rehash all my laments about this division - here he is:


ERDENE "Hurricane" CHULUUM SW
Home - Mongolia
5(2)-4-1
Chuluun started out of the gate with two knockout losses although he could have chosen his early opponents better. The knockouts came at the hands of a more experienced strawweight in Deeden Kengkarun and a rather good straw in Surachai Saengmorakot. He rebounded rather nicely winning his next four bouts including a victory for the PABA title over La Ode Zaenudin Basez (who quite frankly didn't belong in a title fight, but then neither did Chuluun at this point - such is life with the straws) Chuluun's two big moments on the stage were a title defense against Mongkol Charoen, and a WBC title bout with Jose Antonio Aguirre. The Charoen bout ended in a technical win for Chuluum, I do not know what caused the stoppage of the fight but for him to be ahead against Charoen through eight rounds is somewhat impressive. The WBC bout didn't go as well for Chuluun, Aguirre scored a fouth round KO. With one more decision loss, Chuluun retired.