Sam-A Gaiyanghadao
Over 400 fights and three ONE world titles
- Born
- October 13, 1983, Buriram, Thailand
- Nationality
Thailand- Height
- 168 cm (5′6″)
- Stance
- Southpaw
- Style
- Southpaw counter-fighter
- Weight
- Super Flyweight, Super Bantamweight, Featherweight, Strawweight (ONE), Flyweight (ONE)
- Active
- 1992–2016, 2018–present
- Status
- Active · age 43
The record
Muay Thai per Wikipedia (438 fights); ONE describes 'more than 400 bouts'. ONE Championship record 12-5.
The story
am-A Gaiyanghadao, born Wacharit Chuabram in Buriram, has been fighting since 1992 and has more than 400 bouts behind him. A southpaw nicknamed Left Hand Wildfire, he built his game on tight defence and sharp counters. He won Lumpinee Stadium titles at 115 pounds in 2004 and 2007 and at 122 pounds in 2008, defending the latter four times, and was the 2011 Sports Authority of Thailand Fighter of the Year. In ONE Championship he won the flyweight Muay Thai title in 2018, then became the first strawweight champion in both kickboxing, in 2019, and Muay Thai, in 2020. Still competing past 40, he knocked out Elmehdi El Jamari with a head kick in April 2026 and fought for an interim ONE title that July.
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- ONE flyweight Muay Thai world champion (2018)
- ONE strawweight kickboxing world champion (2019, inaugural)
- ONE strawweight Muay Thai world champion (2020, inaugural, 1 defense)
- Lumpinee Stadium super flyweight (115 lb) champion (2004, 2007)
- Lumpinee Stadium super bantamweight (122 lb) champion (2008, 4 defenses)
- Sports Authority of Thailand Fighter of the Year (2011)
- Lumpinee Stadium Fighter of the Year (2011)
Defining fights
- 2004WINvs Petch Tor.Baengsean (decision, won vacant Lumpinee 115 lb title)
- 2018WINvs Sergio Wielzen (KO 4, elbow, won ONE flyweight Muay Thai title)
- 2019LOSSvs Jonathan Haggerty (decision, lost ONE flyweight Muay Thai title)
- 2019WINvs Wang Junguang (unanimous decision, inaugural ONE strawweight kickboxing title)
- 2020WINvs Rocky Ogden (unanimous decision, inaugural ONE strawweight Muay Thai title)
Counter instead of leading: as a southpaw, keep the lead hand busy, let the opponent throw first, then return the rear left straight down the middle.
2016–now