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Jae-Sung Lee (born April 9, 1983 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean professional boxer in the Featherweight division and is the former Korean National Super Bantamweight Champion. [1]
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Jae-Sung Lee (born April 9, 1983 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean professional boxer in the Featherweight division and is the former Korean National Super Bantamweight Champion. [1]
On October 7, 2006 Lee beat the veteran Min-Sung Lee to win the Korean National Super Bantamweight Championship. [2]
In May 2009, Jae-Sung lost to an undefeated Mikey Garcia. [3]
In 2011 Jae-Sung scored a major international victory by defeating Japan's Akihiro Matsumoto in just 70 seconds.
Jae-Sung scored his most notable victory in 2014 when he defeated a badly cut Takuya Watanabe in a 12-round decision. The bout, described as a "blood bath" [4] saw Jae-Sung having his shorts covered in blood. In the fight following the Watanabe fight Jae-Sung will travel to Japan to fight Shingo Wake for the OPBF Featherweight title.
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