Buakaw Banchamek (Thai: บัวขาว บัญชาเมฆ, conceived May 8, 1982) is a Thai welterweight Muay Thai kickboxer, who once battled out of Por. Pramuk Gym, in Bangkok, Thailand under the ring name Buakaw Por. Pramuk (Thai: บัวขาว ป.ประมุข). He is a previous two time Omnoi Stadium champion, Thailand Featherweight champion and two time, 2004, 2006 K-1 World MAX champion.
Likewise, Buakaw additionally played proficient football as a forward in Regional League Division 2 for RBAC F.C.
Conceived as Sombat Banchamek (Thai: สมบัติ บัญชาเมฆ) in Surin,Thailand, Buakaw began his battling profession at eight years old in his home territory of Surin in the northeastern Thailand. He moved to Chachoengsao when he was 15, and from that point forward he has been with the Por. Pramuk Gym. His first battle name was Damtamin Kiat-anan.
Buakaw has gathered a few belts to his name since battling in Bangkok. The Omnoi Stadium featherweight title was his first belt, after that he would go ahead to take the featherweight champion of Thailand title. Buakaw then continued to win another Omnoi Stadium title belt, this time in the lightweight division. In December 2002, Buakaw won the Toyota Marathon 140 lb. competition at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium, beating the profoundly respected Kobayashi of Japan in the finals.
K-1
In July 2004 Buakaw turned into the K-1 MAX World champion beating John Wayne Parr, Takayuki Kohiruimaki and past champion Masato in the finals. In 2005 he almost rehashed his keep running for competition champion, however lost the additional round questionable choice to Dutch shoot-boxer, Andy Souwer in the finals. In the 2006 K-1 MAX World Grand Prix, Buakaw again confronted Andy Souwer in the finals, yet this time crushed Souwer by TKO with a whirlwind of punches, along these lines winning his second K-1 World MAX title and turning into the first man to win that title twice.
Buakaw lost to Masato by consistent choice at the K-1 World MAX 2007 quarterfinals. Notwithstanding Buakaw having the capacity to land horrendous leg kicks all through the match, Masato scored a knockdown in the first round and kept on finding various punch blends all through the battle which earned Masato a consistent choice triumph.
In 2010, Buakaw co-featured in the hand to hand fighting film Yamada: The Samurai of Ayothaya in light of the life of Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese swashbuckler who increased significant impact in Thailand toward the start of the 17th century and turned into the legislative leader of the Nakhon Si Thammarat region in southern Thailand.
Despite the fact that being the semi finalist of the K-1 World MAX 2009 Final Buakaw did not contend in the K-1 World MAX 2010 in Seoul World Championship Tournament Final 16 on the grounds that he was disappointed with the K-1 authority. Rather he entered the Shoot Boxing World Tournament 2010 alongside the previous three time competition champion Andy Souwer. However Toby Imada crushed Souwer in the semi finals to face Buakaw in the last. Buakaw vanquished Imada by means of TKO in the second round to turn into the new 2010 Shoot Boxing S-Cup World champion.
After K-1
In 2011 he has had 7 battles; 4 of which have finished by method for stoppage. In the semi-finals of 2011 Thai Fight 70 kg Tournament he won by KO in the 3rd round through elbow against Mickael Piscitello.
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