Kompayak Porpramook

Kompayak Porpramook is a Thai professional boxer in the light flyweight and flyweight divisions. He is the former World Boxing Association (WBA) interim flyweight champion and former World Boxing Council (WBC) light flyweight champion. Kompayak Porpramook became the second Thai to capture the WBC light flyweight title, following Saman Sorjaturong in the 1990s.

Biography & career He was born in Buriram province in the northeastern region of Thailand. When he was only three years old, his family moved to Samut Sakhon province on the western outskirts of Bangkok, where he grew up. His parents had relocated there for work. He began fighting in Muay Thai at the age of 10 for a payment of just 200 baht. In 1997, he traveled to Bangkok for the first time to fight and joined Porpramook Boxing Gym.

Porpramook won the WBC light flyweight title from Adrián Hernández in a thrilling bout held at the 2nd Infantry Regiment, 11th Guard Division, in Bang Khen. He scored a knockout in the 10th round at the end of 2011, shortly after the major floods in Thailand. The match was later named the WBC's Fight of the Year.

He later faced Hernández in a rematch in Toluca, Mexico, but lost the title after a TKO in the sixth round when the referee stopped the fight.

Porpramook returned to the world title scene with a knockout victory over Venezuelan Jean Piero Pérez in the sixth round at Khon Kaen City Hall, claiming the interim WBA flyweight title. However, later in the same year (mid-2013), he lost the belt by decision after 12 rounds to Koki Eto of Japan in a bout held once again at the 2nd Infantry Regiment in Bang Khen. Porpramook was nearly knocked out in the final round, and Eto became the first Japanese fighter in many years to win a world title on Thai soil.

After that, Porpramook changed boxing stables and managers several times, including a stint under Sombat Banchamek (Buakaw Banchamek). He continued to compete while also training others in Muay Thai, boxing, and even karate at Zendokai Shingi Dojo, a Japanese martial arts gym in the Phra Khanong area.

On March 24, 2018, at the age of 35, he returned to the title scene with a split decision win over rising star Pongsaklek Sithdabnij of Surachart Pisitwuttinan's camp at Workpoint Studio in Pathum Thani province. However, in the rematch held on June 23, 2018 at the same venue, he lost by unanimous decision. But in the rematch on June 23, 2018 at the same place, he is defeated by the unanimous scores.

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