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"Light welterweight champ" Saensak Muangsurin Signed 2.5X6 Card

$ 52.79

Availability: 21 in stock
  • Signed: Yes
  • Original/Reprint: Original
  • Product: Index Card
  • Sport: Boxing

    Description

    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.