Tugstsogt Nyambayar (King Tug) boxer

Tugstsogt Nyambayar boxer
bouts
15
won
12
lost
2
draw
1
Status
active
Division
feather
Debut
2015-03-13
Height
5′ 8″/173cm
Reach
66″/168cm
Age
27
Born
1992-06-23
Death
-
Nationality
Mongolia

Tugstsogt Nyambayar (Mongolian: Нямбаярын Төгсцогт, romanized: Nyambayaryn Tögstsogt; born 23 June 1992) is a Mongolian professional boxer who held the IBO featherweight title in 2019 and challenged for the WBC featherweight title in 2020. As an amateur, he won silver medals at the 2009 World Championships and 2012 London Olympics. As of June 2020, he is ranked as the world's seventh best active featherweight by The Ring and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.He won the silver medal at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships. After that, Nyambayar won the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics, losing to the Cuban boxer Robeisy Ramírez by a score of 14:17 in the final.In 2015, he signed with the manager/adviser Al Haymon and made his professional boxing debut in March of that year. Nyambayar made his professional debut against Gabriel Braxton on 13 March 2015, and won the fight by a first-round knockout. He amassed an 8–0 record during the next two years, with all of those victories coming by way of stoppage.Nyambayar made his first step-up in competition on 18 November 2017, when he faced the undefeated Harmonito Dela Torre. He won the fight by unanimous decision, the first decision win of his professional career, with two judges scoring the fight 78–73 in his favor and the third judge scoring it 79–73 for Nyambayar. Nyambayar then faced the one-time WBC featherweight title challenger Óscar Escandón on 26 May 2018. He won the fight by a third-round technical knockout. Escandón was knocked down five times by the midway point of the third round, which forced referee Keith Hughes to wave the fight off.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. Aside from the bout being a title eliminator, the vacant IBO featherweight belt was on the line as well. Nyambayar won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 114–113, 115–112 and 116–111. Marrero had a strong start to the bout, but Nyambayar began to take over from the fifth round onward. On 23 October 2019, the reigning WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. was ordered to make a mandatory title defense against Nyambayar. The fight was booked as the event headliner of a February 8, 2020, Showtime card that took place at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Russell Jr. won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 118–110, 117–111 and 116–112.

Date Opponent Last Opponents' Results Place Result
2022-01-22 Sakaria Lukas WWWLWW Borgata Hotel Casino, Atlantic City DRAW
Split-decision
2021-07-03 Chris Colbert WWWWWW Dignity Health Sports Park , Carson LOST
Unanimous decision
2020-09-19 Cobia Breedy WWWWWW Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville WIN
Split-decision
2020-02-08 Gary Allen Russell Jr WWWWWW PPL Center, Allentown LOST
Unanimous decision
2019-01-26 Claudio Marrero WWWWLW Barclays Center, Brooklyn WIN
Unanimous decision
2018-05-26 Oscar Escandon LWWLWL Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, Biloxi WIN
KO
2017-11-18 Harmonito Dela Torre WWWWWW Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas WIN
Unanimous decision
2017-02-25 Jhon Gemino LLWLWW Legacy Arena, Birmingham WIN
Technical knockout
2016-12-08 German Meraz LLWWWL Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa WIN
Corner retirement
2016-07-15 Rafael Vazquez WWWWWL Horseshoe Casino, Tunica WIN
Technical knockout
2016-05-05 Juan Ruiz WLLLLL Irvine WIN
Corner retirement
2015-12-03 Pedro Melo WLWWLL The Hangar, Costa Mesa WIN
KO
2015-08-27 Arturo Badillo LLWLLL The Hangar, Costa Mesa WIN
Corner retirement
2015-04-18 Manuel Rubalcava LLLWLL StubHub Center, Carson WIN
KO
2015-03-13 Gabriel Braxton LLLLWL Citizens Business Bank Arena, Ontario WIN
KO