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Chatchai Sasakul is a former boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 champion in the flyweight
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 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 large baize-covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions....
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kul was an amateur boxing star in Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
. He had an amateur record record of 85 fights, winning 78 of them, and also earned the King's Cup for the Best Boxer.

epresented Thailand as a Light Flyweight at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.






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Chatchai Sasakul is a former boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of 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 ....
 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 large baize-covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions....
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Amateur career

Sasakul was an amateur boxing star in Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
. 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 Isaszegi
    Róbert Isaszegi

    R?bert Isaszegi is a Hungarian people boxing, who won the Olympic medalists in boxing in the light flyweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics....
     (Hungary) 2-3


Professional boxing career

Sasakul turned pro in 1991 and captured the WBC flyweight title with a win over Yuri Arbachakov in 1997. He defended the belt twice before losing to Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiįo

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao , known as Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao is a professional Filipino people boxing. He is the former World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Lightweight, World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Superfeatherweight, International Boxing Federation List of IBF world champions#Junior featherweight, and...
 by knockout in 1998.

On August 30, 2008, Sasakul challenged Cristian Mijares
Cristian Mijares

Cristian Ricardo Lucio Mijares is a Mexican professional boxing. He is the World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association super-flyweight champion until he was defeated by Vic Darchinyan on November 1, 2008....
, 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 trough Hong Kong. By the time he got to Mexico, the fight was only three days away and that he experienced jet lag.

See also


  • List of WBC world champions
    List of WBC world champions

    List of WBC world champions is a table showing the world champions certificated by World Boxing Council ....


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