DeKang Wang
Chinese Super Bantamweight Contender
Bio
Right then, DeKang Wang is the Chinese super bantamweight who walked into the Tokyo Dome on May 2 as the away fighter, the warm-up, the body, and walked out with his stock through the roof. He took former WBO bantamweight champ Yoshiki Takei the distance and forced one judge to call it level — 76-76 on a card that two judges scored 77-75. That's not the form line of a body. That's a contender announcing himself.
Make no mistake — Wang has been quietly grinding through Chinese, Filipino and Korean opposition for a couple of years now, picking up wins on home soil and waiting for a stage like Saturday's. He's a pressure fighter with surprisingly heavy hands for someone built lean — the two overhand rights he landed on Takei in round three were proper shots, the kind that put a ranked man on stiff legs in front of fifty thousand people.
He's not a finished article. He's still raw on counters, his exits could be cleaner, and he loses rounds when fights settle into a jab-and-circle pattern. But he's a brilliant project for a major promoter looking for a Chinese name with bite, and after Saturday's performance the calls will come. Keep an eye on him at 122.