Fahlan Sakkreerin or Fahlan Lukmingkwan ( th, ฟ้าลั่น ศักดิ์กรีรินทร์, ฟ้าลั่น ลูกมิ่งขวัญ, born 10 April 1968) is a retired Thai professional boxer who takes

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mini flyweight and WBF flyweight world championships in 1990s.

Boxing career

Fahlan made his debut by defeating to future two-times WBA minimumweight titleholder

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in June 1988. He boxes under "Lukmingkwan Boxing Gym" (ค่ายมวยลูกมิ่งขวัญ), located at Mingkwan Alley,

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by Manoch Buabut as a trainer and manager. He used the name "Fahlan Lukmingkwan". He had 13 consecutive wins, including the

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mini flyweight

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. He was sponsored by Sr. Col. Banju Ongsangkune for challenge to IBF in same weight world title with Eric Chávez, a Filipino boxer on February 22, 1990 at Rajadamnern Stadium. The result was that he was the winner by

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in the seventh round, because Chávez had an eyebrow wound and couldn't continue to fight. But in this bout he has been criticized about

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ed. He defended his title seven times in all Thailand. Later, Manoch Buabut had a conflict of interest with Banju Ongsangkune, who had become Fahlan's co-manager. The result of the eighth defense against Manny Melchor at

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, Samutprakarn in 1992 to him to lose in order to change the new boxer to challenge world title comeback. (in the future, the new boxer is

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). Fahlan continued to fight for two years and switching to a new team and the new manager, Ekarat "Jimmy" Chaichotchuang of Kiat Kreerin Promotion, by Pol. Lt. Col. Kreerin Inkaew as sponsor. He started using the new name "Fahlan Sakkreerin". He was encouraged to promoted to flyweight and challenge WBF world champion with Bulgarian boxer, Krasimir Cholakov at Southern Association of Thailand located in suburban Bangkok on October 22, 1994. As a result, he wins by

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.หน้า 99-103, '' "นักสู้ผู้อาภพ" ฟ้าลั่น ลูกมิ่งขวัญ แชมป์โลกชาวไทยคนที่สิบห้า รุ่นมินิฟลายเวท IBF.''. "22 แชมป์โลกชาวไทย" นิตยสารคนเด็ด (เฉพาะกิจพิเศษ) โดย "ชายพจน์": ตุลาคม 38 This time, he defended his title eight times before being stripped in November 2000. Later he also won the IBF Pan Pacific light flyweight title and was able to defend five times between 2002 and 2007. He also had the opportunity to challenge the world title of the major organizations

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and IBF in the minimumweight and light flyweight four times, but not successful and every bout takes place abroad. His boxing style is fighter. Currently, Fahlan has a son who's a boxer like him, is a

Fahlan Sakkreerin Jr. Teeraphong Utaida ( th, ธีระพงษ์ อุทัยดา; born 7 June 1993), who boxes as Fahlan Sakkreerin Jr. (ฟ้าลั่นจูเนียร์ ศักดิ์กรีรินทร์), Fahlanjunior Kasetphatth ...

or Teeraphong Utaida.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sakkreerin, Fahlan Living people 1968 births Mini-flyweight boxers Flyweight boxers Light-flyweight boxers Fahlan Sakkreerin Fahlan Sakkreerin International Boxing Federation champions

Boxing career

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