Suriyan Sor Rungvisai
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Suriyan Sor Rungvisai is a Thai
professional boxer
in the super flyweight
division and is the current World Boxing Council
super flyweight
champion. Just like other Thai boxers, Suriyan started his career as a Muay Thai boxer since he was very young (around 7 years old). He turned to fight in professional boxing since he was 16 years old. Early in his career, he traveled around South East Asia and Asia to fight aboard with older and bigger opponents. He had shown his talent through impressive performances in many of his fights aboard, but, unfortunately, he could not win all of those controversial fights. Later on, he joined Nakornloung Boxing Promotion under Mr.Suchart Pisitwuttinan, who has been creating two WBC world champions (Veerapol Nakornloung and Sirimongkol Singmanasak). After that, his performance skyrocketed. His memorable fights include winning the current WBA interim superflyweight Champion, Tepparith Singwangcha, losing a controversial WBC flyweight title bout to the legendary Pongsaklek Wongkamchan by one marginal point, and dethroning the Mexican Tomas Rojas to captured WBC superflyweight title with a masterful performance.
Thai people
The Thai people, or Siamese, are the main ethnic group of Thailand and are part of the larger Tai ethnolinguistic peoples found in Thailand and adjacent countries in Southeast Asia as well as southern China. Their language is the Thai language, which is classified as part of the Kradai family of...
professional boxer
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
in the super flyweight
Super flyweight
Super flyweight is a weight division in professional boxing. It is alternatively referred to as junior bantamweight and light bantamweight...
division and is the current World Boxing Council
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...
super flyweight
Super flyweight
Super flyweight is a weight division in professional boxing. It is alternatively referred to as junior bantamweight and light bantamweight...
champion. Just like other Thai boxers, Suriyan started his career as a Muay Thai boxer since he was very young (around 7 years old). He turned to fight in professional boxing since he was 16 years old. Early in his career, he traveled around South East Asia and Asia to fight aboard with older and bigger opponents. He had shown his talent through impressive performances in many of his fights aboard, but, unfortunately, he could not win all of those controversial fights. Later on, he joined Nakornloung Boxing Promotion under Mr.Suchart Pisitwuttinan, who has been creating two WBC world champions (Veerapol Nakornloung and Sirimongkol Singmanasak). After that, his performance skyrocketed. His memorable fights include winning the current WBA interim superflyweight Champion, Tepparith Singwangcha, losing a controversial WBC flyweight title bout to the legendary Pongsaklek Wongkamchan by one marginal point, and dethroning the Mexican Tomas Rojas to captured WBC superflyweight title with a masterful performance.