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Posted on 03/02/2006 5:04:20 AM PST by billorites
Thai transsexual boxer Nong Tum returns to the ring and wins her first fight.
Transsexual boxer Nong Tum, famous in her native Thailand as the "beautiful boxer", has returned to the ring after a long hiatus.
Nong Tum, or Parinya Charoenphol (pronounced Pa-rin-ya Ja-roen-pol), 25, made her comeback after an absence of nearly three years at Nong Tum Fairtex Gym, newly named in her honour.
Her first opponent in the 135-pound contest was Japanese male Kenshiro Lookchaomaekhemthong (pronounced : Ken-shi-ro Look-chao-mae-kem-tong).
The beautiful boxer hung up her gloves three years ago to have sex-change surgery which cost around 150,000 baht ($3,810). However, her post-ring career blossomed as she slowly became a celebrity in Thailand, where transsexuals are socially accepted.
Nong Tum has opened a boxing training camp for kids.
Despite the success of her new career, the pull of the ring was still in her blood.
"When I saw other people training, and watched my friends fighting, it reminded my of what it used to be like. Sometimes when I watch my friends, they don't fight in the way I want people to fight, so that's why I decided to come back to try again," she said.
Her life story, about the rough and tumble of the ring damaging her feminine physique, was made into the movie "Beautiful Boxer", which was screened globally in 2001.
She is the first transsexual boxer in Thailand, but had 10-years of experience and more than 50 professional fights -- including 25 knockouts -- under her belt before becoming a woman.
Returning to the ring, she sports a svelte, femine physique.
Nong Tum has spent seven hours each day for more than a month practicing her swinging punch, kick boxing and fighting skills at the Fairtex Gym in Pattaya, 120 km east of Bangkok, to make sure that her body is ready for the challenge.
However she is worried that the intensive training is turning her body back into that of a man once again.
"Ever since I started boxing again, my muscles have come back. My legs have grown bigger. If I had more training, I think my skin and body would become like a boxer -- a man -- again. But I've been waiting a long time to be a real woman," she said.
It is her first fight after the sex-change operation, but for all the grunts and groans, kicks and punches, she still comes across as a woman.
Punches, kicks and elbow blows to her opponent's head left a deep cut near his eye after three rounds. She won by unanimous decision.
Keeping in character, she ran to kiss her opponent on the cheek after the fight as a sign of friendship.
Nong Tum is expected to fight female boxer Lucia Rijker, who featured in the Hollywood boxing movie "Million Dollar Baby", in June in Las Vegas.
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There's an old Soviet female powerlifter joke in here somewhere. Please no pictures!
I dunno about this...
I see a movie in the future
Broke Knuckle Boxing
Dude looks like a lady
Who would've thunk it?
she had the procedure Rush calls an "addadicktome"
*****However she is worried that the intensive training is turning her body back into that of a man once again. ****
She neednt worry , Its not going to grow back. Once mutilated it pretty much over.
****Nong Tum is expected to fight female boxer Lucia Rijker, who featured in the Hollywood boxing movie "Million Dollar Baby", in June in Las Vegas.******
Rijker is going to get murdered. This freak has no business fighting women. Its one thing to have mutilated males playing golf with women , but fighting is another thing altogether.
I am the queen of England,
I love to sing and dance.
If you don't belive me,
I'll hit you in the pants!
Sorry, old age slips in and takes over from my brain from time to time
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I believe the correct spelling is "She coulda been ah contendah!"
Only with the right surgery.
"she had the procedure Rush calls an "addadicktome"
Nope, she had a chopadicktome
" Her first opponent in the 135-pound contest was Japanese male Kenshiro Lookchaomaekhemthong ..."
Lookchaomaekhemthong is NOT a Japanese surname .
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Beauty is definitely in the eyes of the beholder...aacckk!"
Better looking than a lot of the overweight cattle parading around the supermarkets of America .
Was there a blow by blow broadcast?
Was there a blow by blow broadcast?
Was there a blow by blow broadcast?
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