Kaokor Galaxy

Khaokor Galaxy (Thai: เขาค้อ แกแล็คซี่, born, May 15, 1959) is a former Thai professional Bantamweight and World Boxing Association (WBA), earned twice world champion in his own right. World Bantam Title in May 1988 and July 1989, a weight class in combat sports (118-pound). Khaokor is the twin brother of boxing star Khaosai Galaxy (World champion title 19 times of WBA Super Flyweight Champion)

Khaokor Galaxy
Statistics
Real name	Khaokor Galaxy
Nickname(s)	Nirote Sankam
Weight(s)	Super flyweight
Height	5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Nationality	Thai
Born	May 15, 1959 Phetchabun, Thailand
Stance	Southpaw
Boxing record
Total fights	26
Wins	24
Wins by KO	18
Losses	2
Draws	0
No contests	0

Muay Thai career

Khaokor Galaxy was born as Virote Seankham (Thai: วิโรจน์ แสนคำ), nickname is Rote, was born and raised in Ban Chaliang Lab, Tambon Na Pha, Mueang Phetchabun, Phetchabun, Thailand) He was born after Khaosai as twins. They both are the son of Mr Kan Seankam and Ms Kam Seankam, they have five children. Khaokor was graduated at Phetchabun Technical College same as Khaosai. Khaokor and Khaosai always liked boxing and flighting from the child. Their parents bought the Muay Thai Boxing Gloves for playing at home. Until their parents took them to meet their first Muay Thai Boxing trainers, Prakan Vornsiri and Mana Lhawpradit, they then started practicing Muay Thai particularly.

Khaokor was named as “Denja Mueangsritep” (Thai: เด่นจ๋า เมืองศรีเทพ) for Muay Thai competition, which is related to Khaosai as “Dawden Mueangsritep” (Thai: ดาวเด่น เมืองศรีเทพ). Both of them got in the competition around Phetchabun and other provinces nearby. Khaokor started joining the competition before Khaosai and he used to join the contest in the name of Khaosai. Later, Niwat Lhawsuwanwat (Thai: นิวัฒน์ เหล่าสุวรรณวัฒน์) accepted and took them to Bangkok for the professional training program and joined many competitions in Bangkok.

Boxing career

Like his brother, Sura Saenkham started his career in the sport of kickboxing and later switched to orthodox boxing. After became a sport star in his native country, he followed a long-standing Thai custom of adopting an attention-getting pseudonym and thus became known as Khaokor Galaxy (Thai: เขาค้อ แกแล็คซี่).

As his professional international boxing career began after he had trained with his brother, Khaosai, until earned the Thailand bantamweight (118-pound) by 1981. Khaokor wanted to go to the international contest, he also won and beat many top-ranking boxers.[1] Khaokor won the Thai bantamweight and claimed the title super flyweight (118-pound) WBA world champion, became popular and joined many international contests after then.[2]

Khaokor Galaxy made his professional boxing début in 1985, winning his first seven fights before capturing the Thai Bantamweight (118-pound) title in July 1986. He held that crown until 9 May 1988, when he upset Puerto Rico's Wilfredo Vazquez to take the WBA Bantamweight title.[3][4] With the victory, the Galaxy brothers became the first twins ever to be the world champions.[5]

Khaokor lost the title three months later in his first defence against Korean Sung-Kil Moon, when an accidental clash of heads caused a sixth-round stoppage with Khaokor behind on points. He bounced back with five straight wins to earn a rematch with Moon on 9 July 1989.[6] [7] This match, Khaokor won easily, took all 12 rounds on two scorecards and eleven of the twelve on the third. Once again though, Khaokor lost the title in his first defence three months later, against Luisito Espinosa. Surprisingly, he retired at that point with a record of 24 wins and just two losses. The defeat to Espinosa was unexpected, but Khaokor was caught with a left hook, and about 20 seconds later just collapsed out of thin air. Retirement followed defeat, no doubt the possibility of severe injury was the uppermost thought in Khaokor's mind.[8]

After Khaokor and Khaosai were titled world championships, Channel 9, Thai television producer organized the contest to find between Khaokor and Khaosai who is the greatest boxer, the contest was produced at Ratchadamnern Stadium, Bangkok, Khaosai beat Khaokor by the scores eventually.

Retirement

After Khaokor lost the champion, two months later, Khaokor and khaosai were heading to their home, Phetchabun. They had the event to meet their fans in Phetchabun, while driving went home, they had a car accident, driven by Khaosai. Khaokor got a serious injury, was in the ICU room for 21 days and got a big scar on his chin, but Khaosai just got a little bit injury and could come back to join the contest after that not very long.

Khaokor decided to retire after his recovery from the car accident, but he still helped Khaosai train the boxing as same as before. Until Khaosai also decided to retire, Khaokor went back to look after his business full-time, snook club.

A while his retirement, he got a film job as a main actor for a Thai film called “My name is Mahingsa” (Thai: ข้าชื่อ..มหิงสา), and Khaokor was also a boxing trainer for Siriporn Thaweesuk (Thai: ศิริพร ทวีสุข), a first Thai woman world champion, WBC.[9] In his retirement time, Khaokor had many businesses such as snook club, selling car roof accessories, and restaurant in Bangkok. Also he used to work as a recreation attendant for the Phetchabun Government and worked for pawnshop.

Personal life

Khaokor used to be very rich from boxing competitions but spent a lot of money with his ex-girlfriends. Once, he became very poor but still got many opportunities to get the jobs and becomes settled again. Currently, Khaokor got married to Tak Jirapwan (Thai: คุณแต๊ก จีรวรรณ) and they have 2 sons, 4 years age difference.[10][11]

Khaokor Galaxy opponents

KHAOKOR GALAXY OPPONENTS[12][13]

Date	Opponent	W-L-D	Location	Result
1985-10-09	Kwannarong Sawatwaree	0 1 0	Bangkok	Win
1985-10-30	Kiatchai Kiatsontaya	0 1 0	Bangkok	Win
1985-11-27	Rakchai Kiatsontaya	1 2 0	Bangkok	Win
1986-01-08	Man Sorchitpatana	6 1 0	Rajadamnern Stadium, Bangkok	Win
1986-02-19	Panchai Kiatsontaya	0 1 0	Bangkok	Win
1986-03-26	Nakarat Kiatsonthaya	6 9 1	Bangkok	Win
1986-06-11	Rakchai Kiatsontaya	1 5 0	Bangkok	Win
1986-07-09	Kwangthongnoi Sithamnuay	1 2 0	Bangkok Thai Bantam Title	Win
1986-08-03	Nakarat Kiatsonthaya	7 13 1	Rajadamnern Stadium, Bangkok	Win
1986-09-28	Singnoi Singkrungthon	22 6 1	Bangkok Thai Bantam Title	Win
1987-01-14	Keiichi Ozaki	11 8 0	Bangkok	Win
1987-04-05	YongMan Chun	0 1 0	Pattaya	Win
1987-05-17	Ben Capagnan	2 2 1	Bangkok	Win
1987-06-25	Tony Pruitt	7 2 1	Bangkok	Win
1987-09-06	Russell Finn	9 4 2	Bangkok	Win
1987-10-12	Constancio Dangla	20 5 3	Rajadamnern Stadium, Bangkok	Win
1987-12-14	Du-Bok Cha	2 0 0	Bangkok	Win
1988-05-09	Wilfredo Vazquez	26 3 2	Hua Mark Indoor Stadium, Bangkok World Boxing Association World BantamTitle	Win
1988-08-14	Sung Kil Moon	6 0 0	New Lamada Renaissance Hotel, Seoul World Boxing Association World Bantam Title	Loss
1988-09-12	John Matienza	22 7 1	Bangkok	Win
1988-11-09	Jorge Rodriguez	8 11 2	Rajadamnern Stadium, Bangkok	Win
1989-01-15	Duk-Hwan Bae	6 7 1	Crocodie Farm, Samut Prakan	Win
1989-02-19	Noel Cornelio	3 1 0	Bangkok	Win
1989-04-24	Speedy Kikuchi	8 5 2	Bangkok	Win
1989-07-09	Sung Kil Moon	9 0 0	Rajadamnern Stadium, Bangkok World Boxing Association World Bantam Title	Win
1989-10-18	Luisito Espinosa	21 5 0	Rajadamnern Stadium, Bangkok World Boxing Association World Bantam Title	Loss

References

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13. "Khaokor Galaxy Boxer Stats". boxstat.co. Retrieved 2020-07-30.

External links

• Boxing record for Kaokor Galaxy from BoxRec