Muay Thai Legends: In Memoriam
Thailand’s national sport produced the great stadium champions of Lumpinee and Rajadamnern and the camps that trained them. These profiles cover the fighters and trainers who carried Muay Thai to the rest of the world.
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The profiles
Apidej Sit-Hirun
1941 – 2013
Thai Muay Thai champion honored as Fighter of the Century, later a coach.
Saekson Janjira
1961 – 2026
Six-time world Muay Thai champion with more than 200 fights and a Lumpinee Stadium title, who taught authentic Muay Thai in the United States for three decades.
Every profile in this section follows the In Memoriam research standard: deaths confirmed before anything is written, every claim sourced, conflicts between sources printed, and promotional claims labelled as such.