Thongchai Sitsongpeenong
Thai Muay Thai fighter and pencak silat medalist.
Thongchai Sitsongpeenong is a Thai Muay Thai kickboxer who also competes in pencak silat. As of June 2016, he was ranked #9 at Rajadamnern Stadium at 160 lbs and #10 by World Boxing Council Muaythai at 160 lbs. He competed for Glory from 2016 to 2018, most notably participating in the 2018 Glory Welterweight Contender Tournament. In silat, he won the silver medal at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games in the 90–95 kg event and the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championship in the 85–90 kg event.
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Saranon Glompan
- Other names
- Thai Terminator
- Nationality
- Thai
- Born
- 22 January 1996
- Birthplace
- Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
- Fighting out of
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Weight
- 70 kg / 154 lb / 77 kg / 170 lb
- Reach
- 72.5 in / 1.84 m
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Biography and career
Thongchai Sitsongpeenong was born as Saranon Glompan in Nakhon Ratchasima in northeastern Thailand on January 22, 1996. He had his first fight at age 11 in 2007. On June 7, 2013, he won the vacant Lumpinee Stadium welterweight title at 147 lbs. His first fight outside Thailand was on November 23, 2013, in Macau, China, against Eleha Nohi at 70 kg, winning by three-round decision.
Dzaniev had previously beaten Buakaw Banchamek. Thongchai lost a controversial bout to Tobby Smith on January 3, 2014, with arguments that he won rounds one and two. On February 8, 2014, in France, he defeated Fabio Pinca after five rounds, breaking Pinca's arm and sidelining him for 15 months. From May 4–9, 2014, he won gold at the IFMA World Championships in Malaysia in the 71 kg division.
On August 3, 2014, he knocked out Vong Noy in Cambodia in the second round. In the Top King World Series, he defeated Samy Sana by three-round decision in Paris on November 15, 2014. In 2015, he won three more Top King fights: a first-round knockout of Collin Law on July 28, a first-round knockout of Aydin Tuncay on September 4, and a third-round technical knockout of Adrien Rubis on October 17.
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