Khaosai Galaxy
Khaosai Galaxy was born in Phetchabun, Thailand on May 15th, 1959 and is the Boxer. At the age of 64, Khaosai Galaxy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Khaosai Galaxy (born May 15, 1959) is a former Thai professional super flyweight (also known as junior bantamweight) boxer and Muaythai kickboxer.
Khaosai defended his WBA world championship 19 times in seven years (1984–1991), winning 16 of his title matches by knockouts in 16 of his championship fights.
He is widely recognized as one of the greatest boxing champions of all time as a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
In 2002, he ranked #19 on Ring Magazine's list of the top punchers of all time, and named him as the 43rd greatest fighter of the past 80 years.
Life after boxing
Khaosai decided to work in Thai animation not long after his return to boxing. He first tried a shot at fame, releasing a single named "Khob Khun Krub" — "Thank You." Since being involved in TV series and films, particularly comedies, he began to work in music. His first appearance as an actor came during the television series Poot Mae Nam Khong (1992) which was followed by Mon Rak Thung (1995 version), The Legend of Suriyothai (2001), and The Bodyguard (2004), among others. In 2005, while filming, a teen called him stabbed in the chest by a devoted fan who wanted to get Khaosai's shirt for collection but was refused. The incident, which featured a snapshot of Khaosai with a bandage on his face but smiling and standing next to him, made frontline news.
In 2006, he appeared in a music video for a song performed by fellow boxers Somluck Kamsing and Samart Payakaroon. Khaosai portrayed a shy man being approached by a young woman in the video.
He married Yasun Ota, who had met in Kbe, Japan, in 1989, after retirement. The couple were married for just one year and then divorced later.
Sureerat "Fah" Saenkham (née Niwesram) married a Buriram woman later in life. Khaosai and his wife's nephew were unaccompanied, but Khaosai took his wife's nephew as a stepchild.
In March 2013, he made headlines again, this time to Wannapa "Nung" Kamboonsri, before getting a legal divorce from his former wife. He became a father for the first time at the age of 54, when his wife safely delivered a child. By the year's end, his wife had her second daughter by the end of the year.
He now owns two Muay Thai gyms in Bangkok and Phuket, as well as being a mentor for Denkaosan Kaovichit in the fight against Takefumi Sakata, which took place in Yokohama, Japan, around 2008. (Denkaosan knocked his opponent out in the second round, becoming the next WBA flyweight champion).
Khaosai has also flirted with politics, besides boxing and entertainment. During the 2007 Thai general election, he was a candidate on the Puea Pandin Party's party list, but he failed. Also, during the 2011 Thai general election, he ran for the Chartthaipattana Party's native Phetchabun 2nd district but lost with only 8,485 votes.
Muay Thai career
Khaosai was born in Phetchabun Province, Northern Thailand, as Sura Saenkham (Thai: ). In the early 1980s, he became a Muay Thai fighter and took the name Galaxy from a restaurant and nightclub owned by his manager's friend. Khaosai's left hand, especially in his soon-to-be legendary right hand, had a lot of punching power. He converted to Marquis of Queensbury style and began training as a western style boxer on his manager and tutor.
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He praised his mother as the first trainer because she loved boxing and Muay Thai. During the time that Pone Kingch, the first Thai world champion, and his twin brother Khaokor Galaxy were born, he and his twin brother Khaokor Galaxy became popular.
His mother would bring them up at 4 a.m. for a run before school and continue to do everything for the twins to fight.
Professional boxing career
Khaosai began his international style boxing career in December 1980. He won all of his first six fights, earning him a chance at the Thailand bantamweight (118-pound) championship against Sakda Saksuree in 1981. He lost on a points decision. It was supposed to be the last fight he'd ever lose in the ring.
Khaosai won his first three fights and captured the Thai bantamweight title in 1982. Jiro Watanabe, the country's top-ranked WBA world champion, has won 15 fights in a row and climbed to the top of the world rankings to become the country's top-flyweight champion by 1984.
The WBA suspended Watanabe and matched Khaosai against undefeated Eusebio Espinal for the vacant championship in 1984. Khaosai defeated Espinal in the sixth round, setting the longest championship streak in his division's history.
Khaosai defended his WBA championship 19 times over the next seven years, winning 16 of his championship battles by knockouts in 16 of his titles. Boxing fans dubbed Khaosai The Thai Tyson for knocking out victories in the mid-1980s, when world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was in his prime and scoring knockouts over everyone.
Khaosai took his title in 1986 against unbeaten (and future WBA bantamweight champion) Israel Contreras in Curaçao, just once outside of Asia. He had two title fights in Kbe, Japan, one in South Korea and another in Indonesia's Bung Karno Stadium. The remainder were in Thailand, where he fought for purses in excess of $100,000 in front of huge crowds. That, as well as the fact that few top fighters in the West were able to challenge Khaosai, made him relatively unknown in the West.
His twin brother, who was fighting under the name Kaokhor Galaxy, won the WBA bantamweight crown in 1988, making the Galaxy brothers (Saenkham brothers) the first twins to ever be world boxing champions.