Thongchai (134-32 in Muay Thai) is huge by the standards of the average Thai, standing 5'10" (1.78m) and walking around at as much as 200lbs (90kgs) when he is out of training. At 20 years old he has yet to finish growing but he is already much bigger than when he won a Lumpini Stadium title as a teenager, one of the sport's top honors.
Having had his first fight at the age of 11, Thongchai is already a veteran: he's spent nearly half his life fighting and more than half his life training. Dharmajiva wonders if that early start - and his early success - lie behind the issues he sometimes has getting Thongchai motivated.