Chatchai Sasakul
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Chatchai Sasakul is a former boxing
champion in the flyweight
division. Aside of being a professional boxer, Sasakul is also a practitioner in snooker
.
. He had an amateur record record of 85 fights, winning 78 of them, and also earned the King's Cup for the Best Boxer.
by knockout in 1998 to earn Pacquiao his first championship titles.
On August 30, 2008, Sasakul challenged Cristian Mijares
, the WBA and WBC unified super flyweight champion. However, he stopped in three rounds. According to a doctor who provided him medication after the match, this was the Thai boxer's last career fight. What might have become a disadvantage for Sasakul was that he had to go to a second flight to Mexico through Germany after having problems with the first flight which tried to go through Hong Kong. By the time he got to Mexico, the fight was only three days away and that he experienced jet lag.
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...
champion in the flyweight
Flyweight
Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing less than 112 lb but above 108 lb .-Professional boxing:...
division. Aside of being a professional boxer, Sasakul is also a practitioner in snooker
Snooker
Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...
.
Amateur career
Sasakul was an amateur boxing star in ThailandThailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
. He had an amateur record record of 85 fights, winning 78 of them, and also earned the King's Cup for the Best Boxer.
Olympic career
He represented Thailand as a Light Flyweight at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. The results of his fights were:- 1st round bye
- Defeated Luis Rolon (Puerto Rico) 3-2
- Defeated Maurice Maina (Kenya) 5-0
- Lost to Róbert IsaszegiRóbert IsaszegiRóbert Isaszegi is a Hungarian boxer, who won the bronze medal in the light flyweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:...
(Hungary) 2-3
Professional boxing career
Sasakul turned pro in 1991 and captured the WBC and Lineal flyweight titles with a win over Yuri Arbachakov in 1997. He defended the titles twice before losing to Manny PacquiaoManny Pacquiao
Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...
by knockout in 1998 to earn Pacquiao his first championship titles.
On August 30, 2008, Sasakul challenged Cristian Mijares
Cristian Mijares
Cristian Ricardo Lucio Mijares is a Mexican professional boxer. Mijares is the former WBC, WBA and current IBF Super Flyweight Champion. Cristian is the older brother of undefeated prospect Ricardo Mijares and the nephew of world title contender Vicente Mijares.-Early life:Cristian comes from a...
, the WBA and WBC unified super flyweight champion. However, he stopped in three rounds. According to a doctor who provided him medication after the match, this was the Thai boxer's last career fight. What might have become a disadvantage for Sasakul was that he had to go to a second flight to Mexico through Germany after having problems with the first flight which tried to go through Hong Kong. By the time he got to Mexico, the fight was only three days away and that he experienced jet lag.