K.Y.N Muay Thai Gym is owned by Thai Champion Hlukhin (real name Wichit Lapmee) , his English wife Lisa, and Harry, Lisa’s father. Lisa has had 26 Muay Thai fights in her career, and Harry has had over 100 fights in Kiokushinkai, Boxing and Muay Thai.
HLUKHIN, HEAD TRAINER
Hlukhin devoted his early life to becoming a Muay Thai Champion and now devotes his life to his students. Hlukhin started fighting professionally at the age of 9 and has had over 200 fights. Hlukhin moved from his home to Borcahiwat Gym in Bangkok , Thaialnd at the age of 13 to become a professional Muay Thai fighter. Throughout his career he won 10 Champion Belts, including the WMC World Champion and the Rajadamnern Fighter of the Year twice.
Hlukhin also fought professionally as a boxer, and not only did he fight for the the WBA World Champion, incredibly he was undefeated in all 50 of his boxing fights 30 of them professional. He incredibly won more than 30 of these fights by knock out. To see the details of Hlukhin’s recorded boxing fights check out his page on Boxrec – http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=6318&cat=boxer
Hlukhin is a very well recognised Muay Thai fighter, and is famous throughout Thailand. We are very lucky to have him here to pass on his knowledge!
Hlukhin's champion record:
- Age 11 - Southern Thai Champion (66lb)
- Age 17 - Rajadamnern Fighter of the Year (115lb)
- Age 18 - Rajadamnern Champion (115lb)
- Age 18 - Isuzu Entertain Champion (115lb)
- Age 19 - Rajadamnern Fighter of the Year (115lb)
- Age 23 - Boxing OPBF Champion (118lb)
- Age 24 - Boxing PABA Champion (118lb) -( an amazing 6 times!)
- Age 32 - Tam Jai Entertain Champion (140lb)
- Age 32 - Siam Om Noi Champion (140lb)
- Age 33 - WMC World Champion (143 lb)
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BAT, Muay Thai and Boxing trainer
Bat fought for 20 years and has had over 100 Muay Thai fights - he started at the age of twelve and amazingly was the Isan champion at 13 years old. Bat moved from his home to Muag Surin Gym in Bangkok, Thaialnd at the age of 13 to further his career and fought at Rajadamnern stadium 20 times, and was the main event for many of his fights!
Bat also had 30 boxing fights - impressively losing only two - and he won ten by knockout. Before joining K.Y.N. Muay Thai Gym Bat spent five years at a Thai gym in Bangkok training champions.
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Rung Surin, Muay Thai and boxing trainer
Rung has been fighting professionally for 25 years and has had over 300 Muay Thai fights. He started fighting at the age of 9 and was the Sumrong Stadium Champion at the age of 16. Rung fought at Lumpini Stadium 15 times, winning 10 fights. He then went on to win 25 out of 35 fights at Rajadamnern Stadium in Bangkok. Rung then spent 5 years in the Thai Navy, fighting amateur boxing, before continuing his career in Muay Thai.
Rung has been a trainer for the past 8 years, and has trained students at gyms in Koh Samui, Bhuriram, Chang Mai, Lam Pang, Lam Poon, Pai Yow, Naratiwat, and Malaysia, before coming to train here at K.Y.N.
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Bow (Muay Thai Trainer)
Bow started training muay thai at the Tor Werapun Gym at the age of of 9. His fight career started by the age of 10 and he has had 130 fights in all with 15 of those being at the famous Rajadamnern Stadium in Bangkok. Bow has worked as a muay thai trainer with foreigners for over 10 years in various gym in Phuket and Koh Samui. In his spare time Bow is tattooist and will do tattoos for any of our students here at the gym.
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HARRY
Harry does not class himself as a trainer at K.Y.N. Gym, but he helps many of our students and fighters both during training and during fights. Harry has had over 100 fights in Kyokushinkai, Boxing and Muay Thai. Harry is an inspiration to many of us here – check out his training video ‘ Never too old for muay thai’.
