Muay Thai Stuff’s Blog

Translation from : Muay Siam Daily Magazine

Diesel Lek is the fighter who almost lost the opportunity to be a professional fighter due to he is a big guy, who difficult to find the fighters who are in the same weight division. But he still had a best luck when an ex-famous fighter, saw his potential and finally brought him to his gym and trained for professional fighter.

“I was about 14-15 years old when my coach brought me to the camp to receive comprehensive training. He also gave me the strong hope that if I am really focus and concentrate on the training, I will definitely have a chance to come and fight in Bangkok. But unfortunately, due to the large weigh division I am, I eventually have no one to fight with and my coach then mentioned that I may have to lose some weight to get the chance to fight, otherwise, I will have to fight with the big guy who are in the same division and the grater chance of lose. So I, at that time, was encourage only to fight in my local region not yet go to Bangkok for professional tournament.

However, Diesel Lek has gained very success and reputation in upcountry until he finally had a chance to come to Bangkok because one of the promoter had organised the tournament only for fighters who are in bigger weight division until Diesel Lek finally gain the champion title of Welter weight.

“The fight was really was difficult to me. I thought that I was really perfect at that time and ready to beat any one, but in fact, I wasn’t”

Even though he seemed to lose advantage during the fight, but he finally won and gained the title.

“When I started practice Muay Thai, I had no support from any one, they always said that there are no big fighters success in Thailand. Now I am really proud that I could win both the fighter and people’s insult.