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"Light welterweight champ" Saensak Muangsurin Signed 2.5X6 Card
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Up for auction "Light welterweight Boxing champion" Saensak Muangsurin Signed 2.5X6 Card Dated 1989.ES-1403
Saensak Muangsurin
(13
August 1950 – 16 April 2009) was a professional boxer from
Phetchabun
,
Thailand
. He was a former
WBC
light welterweight
champion,
who set a world record by winning a world title in his 3rd professional fight.
He is also Thailand's heaviest world boxing champion to date. Saensak started
fighting in
Muay Thai
and fought in several Muay
Thai matches held in Japan prior to winning the world title. In the beginning,
he used the name "Saensaep Petchcharoen" and "Saepsuang
Petchcharoen" in his neighborhood. Later, he became a famous Muay Thai
fighter. He has faced many top Muay Thai fighters such as Pud Lorleg,
Vicharnnoi Porntawee, Putpadnoi Warrawut, Kunpol Sakornpitak, Wisan
Graigreangyuk, Kongdej Lookbangplasroy, Sirimongkol Looksiripat, and he won
the
junior welterweight
title
by knockout from Sorrasak Sor Lukbookalo in just the first round in 1971.
In
addition, he was also an amateur boxer at the
7th
Southeast Asian Peninsular Games
in Singapore in 1973. He made
news every time he won by
RSC
until he won the
gold medal.
Saensak
made his formal professional boxing debut on November 16, 1974, with a
first-round knockout win. He won his second fight in February 1975 by technical
knockout in round 7, and challenged
Perico Fernandez
for the
WBC
light welterweight
title
in his third professional fight. He defeated Fernandez by technical knockout in
the 8th round on July 15, 1975, to set a world record for taking the shortest
time to win the world title; it had been less than a year since he made his
debut in 1974.
Saensak
lost his world title in his second defense against
Miguel Velasquez
after being disqualified in the 5th
round, but quickly regained it four months later on October 29, 1976, by knocking
out Velázquez in two rounds. He successfully defended the WBC belt 7 times (8
total, including his defense prior to the disqualification against Velázquez),
most notably against former WBC
lightweight
champion
Guts Ishimatsu
, whom he knocked out in six rounds. He was
knocked out by
Sang Hyun Kim
in the
13th round to lose his world title on December 30, 1978. He fell into relative
obscurity from then on, losing both of his fights in 1979, one of which was a
third-round knockout loss to
Thomas Hearns
. His last professional fight was for the
OPBF
welterweight
title, which he lost by decision over 12
rounds. His record was 14–6–0 (11 KOs). In 2014
Vasyl Lomachenko
equaled the record of winning a world
title in his third bout. Saensak still has the record for the fastest time
though, having taken 11 days less than the Ukrainian.