Hi Choi

Hi Yong Choi is another Korean boxer that captured the boxing industry with such amazing agility and power in the ring. He was born on September 13, 1965 in his country, Korea. He was known to be the former WBA light-flyweight champion during his firing career in the boxing history.

Choi was recorded to have won and took home his titles victoriously for 19 fights and also left his former opponents with his 8 knockout points during his boxing career. Choi also had his own taste defeats in his matches and was recorded to have lost twice that did not end with knockouts. He also had zero forced draws while taking care of his reigning career. His boxing stance was observed to be Orthodox with his ample fighting height of 5’ 4 ½”, twenty nine inches of fighting reach or arm length, and got a total of 21 career fights.

Before Choi’s rigorous and passion-flaring boxing feats, he turned pro in the year 1987. After that, in 1991, Choi then took the WBA light-flyweight title against Bong Jun Kim only having his tenth professional bout in with a decision. Choi was reluctant enough to defend this title with all his might and kept it in his sight for four times, thus, also defeating four opponents to make sure the belt stays with him. However, Hideyuki Ohashi, another boxing champ in the boxing history, succeeded in taking with him the light-flyweight title from Choi in 1992. Having such defeat, Choi was more than determined to never give up with his boxing career. Instead, he purposely gained more weight to look for more challenging opponents and to solidify his boxing defenses. He then fought against the great Leo Gamez of Venezuela in 1995 and successfully got his own doze of the WBA light-flyweight title by decision and winning over one of the world’s boxing champ. Unfortunately, Choi failed to keep his belt and in 1996, he lost the fight against Carlos Murillo.