Tugstsogt Nyambayar is a Mongolian professional boxer who held the IBO featherweight title in 2019 and challenged for the WBC featherweight title in 2020.
11 Facts About Tugstsogt Nyambayar
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Tugstsogt Nyambayar won the silver medal at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships.
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Tugstsogt Nyambayar made his professional debut against Gabriel Braxton on 13 March 2015, and won the fight by a first-round knockout.
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Tugstsogt Nyambayar made his first step-up in competition on 18 November 2017, when he faced the undefeated Harmonito Dela Torre.
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Tugstsogt Nyambayar then faced the one-time WBC featherweight title challenger Oscar Escandon on 26 May 2018.
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Tugstsogt Nyambayar won the fight by a third-round technical knockout.
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Tugstsogt Nyambayar faced the former WBA interim and IBO featherweight champion Claudio Marrero in a WBC featherweight title eliminator on 26 January 2019, at the Barclays Center in New York City.
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Marrero had a strong start to the bout, but Tugstsogt Nyambayar began to take over from the fifth round onward.
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Tugstsogt Nyambayar was booked to face Cobia Breedy on 19 September 2020, in yet another WBC title eliminator.
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Tugstsogt Nyambayar landed 112 jabs, while the much shorter Nyambayar managed to land only 20 jabs himself.
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Tugstsogt Nyambayar returned to featherweight, after suffering his second professional loss, and was booked to face Sakaria Lukas.