Pichit Chor Siriwat ( th, พิชิต ช.ศิริวัฒน์; stylized as Pichit Siriwat; born 31 January 1975), also known as Pichitnoi Sitbangprachan (พิชิตน้อย ศิษย์บางพระจันทร์), is a retired Thai professional boxer who was the WBA

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world champion in the late 90s.

Biography and boxing career

Pichit is a younger brother of

Pichit Sitbangprachan Pichit Sitbangprachan ( th, พิชิต ศิษย์บางพระจันทร์); born Supap Hanwichachai (สุภาพ หาญวิชาชัย); 15 January 1966) is a former professional boxer from Thailand. He is one o ...

, a Thai boxer who won

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world champion in the early 90s. Both are boxers under

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's stable. He fought for the first time using the name "Pichitnoi Sitbangprachan" (The Little Pichit) and got the chance to challenge WBA junior flyweight title with

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, the Venezuelan holder at

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on October 9, 1994, the result was that he was TKO in the sixth round due to his limited experience. He still was supported to fight by Songchai and renamed "Pichit Chor Siriwat" after Chaipak Siriwat, a famous politician as a sponsored. He won PABA light flyweight champion in 1995 and defeated the title once. He challenge world champion in second time with Japanese boxer, Keiji "Prince" Yamaguchi at

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, Japan on December 3, 1996. This time, he won the champion by TKO in the second round. He defended his title at all five times, including defeating the elder Thai boxer, Kaaj Chartbandit (Hadao CP Gym) who have challenged the world champion with Leo Gámez in 1994 at

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but failed. The bout was held on March 1, 1998, at

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in the

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area, considered as one of the events of

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1998 celebration. Later in the early 2000, he was stripped because he don't retain too long. Later in early 2002, he had the opportunity to challenge a world title in third time with

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, a boxer from Nicaragua at Jai Alai Fronton,

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. This time he was defeated by TKO in the final round. He continued to fight and still have a name appearing in the ranking. He traveled to Japan as a boxing trainer and boxer for Ioka Boxing Gym of

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, a former Japanese world champion in two different weights. But he was paid too little, therefore, he returned to Thailand. Currently Pichit lives in

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his native. He has a

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business.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chor Siriwat, Pichit Living people 1975 births Light-flyweight boxers

Pichit Chor Siriwat Pichit Chor Siriwat ( th, พิชิต ช.ศิริวัฒน์; stylized as Pichit Siriwat; born 31 January 1975), also known as Pichitnoi Sitbangprachan (พิชิตน้อย ศิษย์บางพระจันทร์), ...

Boxing trainers World Boxing Association champions

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