Panya Pradabsri: Boxing Career and Notable Fights
Panya Pradabsri, also known as Petchmanee CP Freshmart, is a Thai former professional boxer who held world titles at minimumweight and light flyweight. The WBC lists him as being from Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, and records his birth date as February 21, 1991.
World title career
Pradabsri won the WBC minimumweight title on November 27, 2020, defeating then-unbeaten champion Wanheng Menayothin by unanimous decision. He made four successful defenses, including a rematch with Wanheng, before losing the belt to Japan’s Yudai Shigeoka by unanimous decision on October 7, 2023.
He returned to world-title contention at light flyweight. On December 26, 2024, Pradabsri won the vacant WBC title with a majority-decision victory over Carlos Cañizales. Cañizales regained the championship in their rematch on August 1, 2025, stopping Pradabsri in the fifth round in Caracas.
This record shows two separate championship chapters: his minimumweight reign ended in 2023, and his later light-flyweight title reign lasted from December 2024 until the 2025 rematch.
Further career results
Pradabsri turned professional in January 2014 and won his first eighteen contests, mostly in Thailand with two appearances in Laos. His first defeat came against former WBC minimumweight champion Xiong Zhao Zhong in Datong, China, in October 2017. Xiong won a twelve-round majority decision. Pradabsri then rebuilt with sixteen consecutive victories over the next three years before challenging Wanheng. His four successful minimumweight defenses included Danai Ngiabphukhiaw, Wanheng in a return contest, and two meetings with Norihito Tanaka. He outpointed Tanaka in the first and stopped him in the eighth round of the second. The later light-flyweight title win gave him championship success in a second division. In the Cañizales rematch, Pradabsri scored a knockdown before being stopped himself by a body shot in the following round. He retired in August 2025 at thirty-four, with a reported record of forty-four wins, three defeats and twenty-seven knockouts, ending a career that had produced WBC championships at both 105 and 108 pounds.
Sources
Additional sources: https://www.ringmagazine.com/news/former-two-weight-world-champion-panya-pradabsri-retires-at-34-4cJ6rVX68DMUHgoc1HwiL0
- WBC: Panya Pradabsri, two-time WBC champion
- WBC: Yudai Shigeoka defeats Panya Pradabsri
- WBC: Pradabsri defeats Cañizales for the vacant light-flyweight title
- WBC: Carlos Cañizales wins the title rematch
