The UBO Notebook (February 9, 2026)

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FEBRUARY 9, 2026 / BY UBO PRESS OFFICER

• Former UBO All-America Super Middleweight champion (2005) Zane “The Train” Marks (21-8, 13 KOs) is still going strong at 41 years of age, and just became Mid American Light Heavyweight champion.

Marks returned to the ring last May after more than nine years out, and went straight into a fight for the Mid American Cruiserweight title. Unfortunately for him that was too much too soon, and he lost.

But on February 7, at Teamsters Hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he refused to lose as he demolished Iowan Mark Stoddard in the first round to become a champion again.

• Also still at it, 48-year-old former UBO Inter-Continental Super Welterweight champion (2017), and two-time WBC world champion, Sirimongkhon Iamthuam won the Thai Heavyweight title on January 25 in his home-town Pathum Thani.

Iamthuam, who lost a challenge for the UBO world Cruiserweight title to Australian Matt Floyd in 2024, beat Pornwissanu Suwaros to improve his amazing professional record to 102-8 (65 KOs).

• Reigning UBO world Super Welterweight champion Yuri Sakunts stayed busy on February 7 in Bangkok, stopping Russian Mark Urvanov (26-4-2, 11 KOs) in the first round of a non title fight.

29-year-old southpaw Sakunts, from Armenia, is now 21-0 (19).

• UBO Inter-Continental Super Lightweight titlist Nursultan Smail from Kazakhstan took his pro ledger to 7-1 (7) when he stopped former Thailand and WBA Asia champion Champee Phayom (27-19-2, 19 KOs) in two rounds of a non title affair in Bangkok on January 31.

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