Kaokor Galaxy


Khaokor Galaxy is a former Thai professional Bantamweight and World Boxing Association World Bantam Title in May 1988 and July 1989, a weight class in combat sports. Khaokor is the twin brother of boxing star Khaosai Galaxy and twice world champion in his own right.
= Muay Thai career =
Khaokor Galaxy was born as Virote Seankham 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 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 used to use this name as “Denja Mueangsritep” for Muay Thai competition, which is related to Khaosai as “Dawden Mueangsritep”. 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 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 sports 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.
As his professional international boxing career began after he had trained with his brother, Khaosai until earned the Thailand bantamweight by 1981. Khaokor wanted to go to the international contest, he also won and beat many top-ranking boxers. Khaokor won the Thai bantamweight and claimed the title super flyweight WBA world champion, became popular and joined the international contests after then.
Khaokor Galaxy made his professional boxing début in 1985, winning his first seven fights before capturing the Thai Bantamweight 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. With the victory, the Galaxy brothers became the first twins ever to be the world champions.
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. 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.
After Khaokor and Khaosai were titled world champion, 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 meet their fans in Phetchabun, while driving went home, they had a car accident, driving 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 not very long.
Khaokor decided to retire after recovered from the accident, but he still helped Khaosai training the boxing the 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”, and Khaokor was also a boxing trainer for Siriporn Thaweesuk, a first Thai woman world champion, WBC. Khaokor used to have many businesses such as selling car roof accessories, a recreation attendant for the Phetchabun Government, worked at the pawnshop and own a restaurant in Bangkok.
= Personal life =
Khaokor used to be very rich for boxing competitions but spent a lot of money with his ex-girlfriends. Once, he became very poor but still got mane opportunity to get the jobs and becomes settled again. Currently, Khaokor got married to Tak Jirapwan and they have 2 sons, 4 years age difference.
= Khaokor Galaxy opponents =
DateOpponentW-L-DLocationResult
1985-10-09Kwannarong Sawatwaree0 1 0BangkokWin
1985-10-30Kiatchai Kiatsontaya0 1 0BangkokWin
1985-11-27Rakchai Kiatsontaya1 2 0BangkokWin
1986-01-08Man Sorchitpatana6 1 0Rajadamnern Stadium, BangkokWin
1986-02-19Panchai Kiatsontaya0 1 0BangkokWin
1986-03-26Nakarat Kiatsonthaya6 9 1BangkokWin
1986-06-11Rakchai Kiatsontaya1 5 0BangkokWin
1986-07-09Kwangthongnoi Sithamnuay1 2 0Bangkok
Thai Bantam Title		Win
1986-08-03Nakarat Kiatsonthaya7 13 1Rajadamnern Stadium, BangkokWin
1986-09-28Singnoi Singkrungthon22 6 1Bangkok
Thai Bantam Title		Win
1987-01-14Keiichi Ozaki11 8 0BangkokWin
1987-04-05YongMan Chun0 1 0PattayaWin
1987-05-17Ben Capagnan2 2 1BangkokWin
1987-06-25Tony Pruitt7 2 1BangkokWin
1987-09-06Russell Finn9 4 2BangkokWin
1987-10-12Constancio Dangla20 5 3Rajadamnern Stadium, BangkokWin
1987-12-14Du-Bok Cha2 0 0BangkokWin
1988-05-09Wilfredo Vazquez26 3 2Hua Mark Indoor Stadium, Bangkok
World Boxing Association World BantamTitle		Win
1988-08-14Sung Kil Moon6 0 0New Lamada Renaissance Hotel, Seoul
World Boxing Association World Bantam Title		Loss
1988-09-12John Matienza22 7 1BangkokWin
1988-11-09Jorge Rodriguez8 11 2Rajadamnern Stadium, BangkokWin
1989-01-15Duk-Hwan Bae6 7 1Crocodie Farm, Samut PrakanWin
1989-02-19Noel Cornelio3 1 0BangkokWin
1989-04-24Speedy Kikuchi8 5 2BangkokWin
1989-07-09Sung Kil Moon9 0 0Rajadamnern Stadium, Bangkok
World Boxing Association World Bantam Title		Win
1989-10-18Luisito Espinosa21 5 0Rajadamnern Stadium, Bangkok
World Boxing Association World Bantam Title		Loss

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