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Dong Kyun Yum

BORN   November 10 1950; Chung-Buk-Do, South Korea (Some sources report January 17, 1952 Okchon-Gun, South Korea )
HEIGHT 5-4 1/2
WEIGHT 121-123 lbs

Yum was a scrappy and capable fighter who compiled a 53-5-8 record with 21 knockouts; During his career, he won the WBC Super Bantamweight Championship of the World, the OPBF Super Bantamweight Championship and the Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea

H
e defeated such men as Kazuo "Royal" Kobayashi, Shuzo Yoshida, Shigeru Sasaki, Shigemitsu "Spider" Nemoto, Kyu Chul Chang, Kenji Endo and Seiichi Watanuki

1970
Mar  7 Jong-Ho Lee                Seoul, South Korea               W  4
Apr  1 Byung-Han Lee              Seoul, South Korea               W  4
May 10 Sang-Chun Yuh              Daegu, South Korea               D  6
Jun 10 Kyung-Ho Ro                Seoul, South Korea               W  4
Aug 12 Byung-Duk Lee              Seoul, South Korea               D  4
Oct 24 Ryong-Ho Choi              Seoul, South Korea               W  4
Nov  7 Byung-Mu Park              Seoul, South Korea               D  4
Nov 25 Sang Kyu Yuh               Seoul, South Korea               W  4

1971
Jan 10 Sung Jong Hong             Pusan, South Korea               D  6
Mar 26 Byung Ha Kim               Seoul, South Korea              KO  5
May  2 Kenji Fuse                 Daejeon, South Korea             W 10
Jun 23 Byung-Hwa Min              Seoul, South Korea               W  6
Jul 24 Soo Man Hyun               Seoul, South Korea              KO  5
Aug 19 Byung-Duk Lee              Seoul, South Korea              KO  8
Sep  1 Dong-Il Park               Seoul, South Korea               W  8
Oct 20 Sung Jong Hong             Daejeon, South Korea             W 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Nov  7 Soo Man Hyun               Seoul, South Korea              KO  5
Nov 12 Joe Saloma                 Agana, Guam                      L 10
Dec 26 Chung Park                 Seoul, South Korea               W 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea

1972
Jan 19 Sung Jong Hong             Daegu, South Korea               W 10
Jan 27 Speedy Tateoka             Seoul, South Korea              KO  7
Feb 27 Soo Man Hyun               Pusan, South Korea               W 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Mar 10 Dong-Il Park               Daejeon, South Korea            KO  6
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Apr  2 Sung Jong Hong             Pusan, South Korea               D 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Apr 21 Genzo Kurosawa             Seoul, South Korea               W 10
Aug  6 Soo Man Hyun               Seoul, South Korea               W 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Sep 24 Dong-Il Park               Pusan, South Korea              KO  3
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Oct 22 Hiroshi Ishibashi          Seoul, South Korea              KO  8
Nov 19 Sung Jong Hong             Daegu, South Korea               W 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea

1973
Feb 17 Chong-Kyu Kim              Seoul, South Korea              KO  4
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Apr 15 Hurricane Choi             Seoul, South Korea              KO  7
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
May 27 Min-Choul Choi             Pusan, South Korea               W 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Jul 15 Hiroshi Ishibashi          Seoul, South Korea               W 10
Aug 18 Chong-Kyu Kim              Pusan, South Korea              KO  6
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Oct 13 Yong Chul Choi             Gwangju City, South Korea        W 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Oct 27 Chong-Tae Yuh              Daejeon, South Korea             W 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Dec  8 Shoji Sakugawa             Seoul, South Korea              KO  6

1974
Feb  3 Chong-Kyu Kim              Daegu, South Korea               W 10
          -Super Bantamweight Championship of Korea
Mar 17 Kyu Chul Chang             Pusan, South Korea               W 12
          -OPBF Super Bantamweight Championship
May 26 Poirub Luknaka             Pusan, South Korea               W 12
          -OPBF Super Bantamweight Championship
Jul 16 Tomoharu Eda               Daejeon, South Korea             W 12
          -OPBF Super Bantamweight Championship
Aug 31 Seiichi Watanuki           Pusan, South Korea              KO  7
          -OPBF Super Bantamweight Championship

1975
Feb  2 Kil Jae Bae                Pusan, South Korea               W 10
Mar 22 Kenji Endo                 Chuncheon, South Korea          KO  8
Apr 12 Hidematsu Fukuda           Pusan, South Korea              KO  8
Jun  5 Seiichi Watanuki           Osaka, Japan                    KO 10
          -OPBF Super Bantamweight Championship
Aug  1 Hiroshi Ishibashi          Tokyo, Japan                    KO  9
Oct 22 Yong Chul Choi             Seoul, South Korea               D 10
Nov  7 Futaro Tanaka              Osaka, Japan                     W 12
          -OPBF Super Bantamweight Championship
Dec 20 Shigemitsu "Spider" Nemoto Chuncheon, South Korea           W 10

1976
Apr 24 Hiroshi Akaishi            Pusan, South Korea              KO  4
May 29 Yung-Ki Eun                Seoul, South Korea              KO  3
Jun 12 Shigeru Sasaki             Seoul, South Korea              KO  9
Aug  1 Rigoberto Riasco           Pusan, South Korea               L 15
          -WBC Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Nov 24 Kazuo "Royal"  Kobayashi   Seoul, South Korea               W 15
          -WBC Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Dec 26 Tiger Osano                Pusan, South Korea              TK  6

1977
Feb 13 Jose Cervantes             Seoul, South Korea               W 15
          -WBC Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Apr 15 Shuzo Yoshida              Seoul, South Korea               W 10
May 21 Wilfredo Gomez             Hato Rey, Puerto Rico           LK 12
          -WBC Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Jun 27 Soo-Hwan Hong              Seoul, South Korea               L 12
Jul 19 Shuzo Yoshida              Yokohama, Japan                 LK  2

1978
Feb 25 Edwin Alarcon              Seoul, South Korea               W 10
May  8 Orlando Javierto           Seoul, South Korea               W 10
Jul 12 Fernando Cabanella         Seoul, South Korea               W 10
Oct 11 Sandy Noora                Seoul, South Korea               D 10

1980
Dec 19 Soo-Hwan Hong              Seoul, South Korea               D 10


Record courtesy of Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization

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