At the age of over 40, Buakaw Bankamek shows that he is still very energetic. “Holy Muay” participated in regular competitions of professional Muay events, and still kept the achievement of winning in the last 8 times. Recently, Buakaw also signed a professional boxing match contract and prepared Saenchai in March.
The attraction of the former champion K-1 Buakaw is a guarantee of prestige and success with all martial arts events he attended. That is why Buakaw is constantly being asked by the partners. After BKFC, Buakaw can sign a contract against One Championship in the near future. This is something more likely to happen.
The latest information shared by One Championship shows 'St. Muay' Buakaw Bankamek met the billionaire Chatri Sityodong. Recently, the Boss of One Championship shared the plan to implement a Super Muay Championship with 16 fighters attending, not dividing the weight class to find the No. 1 champion of Muay.
Like the name “Thanh Muay”, Buakaw Bankamek is famous worldwide thanks to winning two Kickboxing K1 World Max championships in 2004 and 2006. At the SEA Games 31, he came to Vietnam to work as the chief coach of Kickboxing Thailand. Since then, Buakaw has continuously played official matches and performed.
At the present time, Buakaw is General Secretary of Thailand Kickboxing Association. In the beginning of 2023, Buakaw announced his barreling Muay village within 2 weeks for special training for Kickboxing players. That helps the Thai Kickboxing team to make up and win 2 gold medals, in the second group in the recent SEA Games.