30th Amateur Boxing King’s cup was held on April 9th at The Mall, Ngamwongwan. Weerasak Kowsurat, ministry of travel and sport minister, was the competition chairperson. Thailand fought for 5 matches in 5 classes as follows:

Light Flyweight class: Amnat Ruenrueng, bronze medal world championship holder, fought against Kaew Pongprayoon, B-team national athlete. Kaew surrendered in the 2nd round. Amnat won with score 2-1.

Flyweight class: Somjit Jongjorhor, gold medal world championship holder, got the golden medal from Zou Shiming from China who got hurt and couldn’t fight.

Bantamweight class: Worapoj Petchkoom, silver medal Olympic 2004 holder, fought against Yu Gu, China Olympic boxer. Worapoj won by RSC in the 3rd round with score 7-1.

Lightweight class: Pichai Sayotha met Alexy Tishenko, gold medal world championship holder, from Russia. Pichai won by RSC in the 4th round with score 33-21.

Middleweight class: Angkarn Chompoopoung met Bakhtiyar Artayev, bronze medal world championship holder and former golden medal Olympic 2004 holder, from Kazakhstan. Angkarn fought without afraid won with score 14-8.

Thailand won 5 gold medals in 5 classes and got 30 points, grabbed the King’s cup for the 7th time. Pichai Sayotha is a man of the match.
 
General Thaweep Jantharoj, a president of the amateur boxing association of Thailand, stated that he’s satisfied with all the work and development. Especially Angkarn who won the former golden medal Olympic boxer, neither Non Boonjumnong nor Suriya Prasathinpimai can’t defeat him. However, something needs to be rehabilitated and improved, including all staffs. In Beijing Games, Thai boxers have a chance to win for 5-6 classes depend on a draw to divide the competition line.
 
The president added from now on he will focus on nutrition and medical science. He will let all boxers go and come back to report for duty on April 17th. Who neglects for that duty will be out of team, especially, Manus and Non Boonjumnong. They don’t have much time, so they have to strict to the rules. He told Manus to think about it on Beijing Games. He doesn’t want to send the unprepared boxer to fight and make nation notoriety.

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