Word: thiamprasidth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before the Cohen bout, Bangkok fight fans took in some home-style boxing in Rajadamnern Stadium, and found it more to their taste. Before a typical bout a pair of lithe welterweights, Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth and Kaeh Chomsrimesk, bowed gracefully to the crowd, knelt on the canvas for prayers to Buddha, and warmed up with a graceful, slow-motion dance. Then the gong sounded for the first round, an energetic four-piece band swung into a tune that sounded like an old-fashioned American carnival hootchy-kootchy, and the fighters started dancing in earnest...
Full of All Actions. Since weekly boxing is one of Bangkok's biggest tourist attractions, the fight programs have helpful and somewhat startling translations for English-speaking visitors. After Welterweight Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth won his $50 purse, the traveling sportsman could have got a bet down in the next event on another "youngster full of all actions with never retreat, who loves the give and take method to provide sensation for fans to their hearts' content...
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