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Korea Becomes Asia-Pacific Epicentre

Posted on July 15 2010                                              Bookmark and Share
By: WBF

         

 
 
The recent armament of the World Boxing Federation all over the globe has reached a new peak with Korea now in the spotlight for the Asia-Pacific region.

Having joined the WBFed as the new Asia-Pacific Continental Coordinator (succeeding Australian Ian McLeish) is 50-year-old Jung Ho Moon, the Executive Officer of the Korea Boxing Association (KBA), with 32-year-old Hoon Lee assuming the position of Regional Representative for East Asia.

Moon has been close to the sport of boxing basically all his life, what with his father being a famous national champion. However, it was against his father’s expressed wish that Moon himself laced on the gloves to embark on a 13-year amateur career, which culminated with six Korean titles. Instead of turning pro himself, Moon began coaching, managing the family gym and got himself a PhD in physical education from Kyongki University. In 1985, he began managing fighters with no little success, as 18 Korean champions, 12 OPBF champions and and two world champions pay testimony to.

The new East Asia Representative of the World Boxing Federation, Hoon Lee, is aiming to cooperate closely with the new Asia-Pacific Coordinator Moon, as he has residencies outside of Seoul in Fukuoka, Japan and Bangkok, Thailand. Due to being educated in these countries as well as being enlisted in no less than three American universities for 10 years, Lee is multilingual. He was born and raised in Thailand before his family migrated to Japan prior to him studying in the United States. His love for boxing took him even into the ring last year, where he won a debut fight as a professional cruiserweight!

World Boxing Federation President Howard Goldberg and Executive Director Olaf Schroeder warmly welcomed Moon and Lee into the ever-growing WBFed family, expecting business in the Asia-Pacific region to increase shortly. “I will surely pay a visit to Korea as soon as my schedule allows me to,” said Goldberg, before revealing: “But I can’t promise that it will already happen for the first WBFed championship bout in Korea in September.”


 
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