Rae-Ki Ahn: South Korean Flyweight Boxing Career
South Korean boxer Rae-Ki Ahn, also listed as Ahn Rae-ki, fought in the flyweight division. His recorded professional ledger lists 23 wins, 3 losses and 4 draws. BoxerList’s bout record traces his career from 1981 to 1988.
Ahn challenged Thailand’s Sot Chitalada for the world flyweight championship in Bangkok on September 5, 1987. Chitalada stopped him in round four at 2:50 and retained the title, according to the World Boxing Council’s account of the bout. The video above is labeled as highlights of the Chitalada–Ahn fight.
Ahn’s record also includes a March 1983 eight-round points loss to South Korean contender Yuh Myung-woo, later a WBA light-flyweight champion. That bout appears in Yuh’s professional record.
Building toward a world-title challenge
Ahn’s record shows a substantial run of victories between his meeting with Yuh and the Chitalada challenge. In 1985, he defeated Ha-Shik Lim, Hoi-Yul Yang and JaeYoun Lee inside the distance, then added points wins over Suk-Bong Kim and Miguel Mercedes. These results helped form the competitive foundation for the international opportunity that followed.
His 1986 campaign included a decision over Shunichi Nakajima and a knockout of Petchainart Donjadee. He continued with stoppage victories against Thamin Sithseemok in January 1987 and Tim Balantay that June. The Bangkok title bout therefore followed a sustained series of wins, rather than coming immediately after the earlier loss to Yuh.
Ahn also returned to competition after facing Chitalada. The final entries in his listed record are a March 1988 draw with Daorung Chuwatana in Seoul and a June knockout victory over Duk-Kyun Lee in Daegu. That sequence places the world-title defeat within a longer career and shows that his recorded professional activity continued into the following year.
Sources
Career records and reporting: boxrec.com.
Tags
Boxing, Boxing History
