Samart Payakaroon vs Panumtuanlek Hapalang 1989

There's a bit of a legend surrounding this one. Samart, after losing to Jeff Fenech in English boxing in 1987 became very unpopular in Thailand. After coming back from Australia, he lived as a forest monk for over a year before being matched with Panumtuanlek Hapalang.

Samart hadn't trained for over a year and was coming off the loss of his WBC 122 lb super-bantamweight title. Panumtuanlek, from the same gym as legendary Chamuekpet Hapalang, held the no. 1 ranking at the stadiums.

Samart is in red, Panumtuanlek blue.