Wicha Phulaikhao: Boxing Career and Notable Fights

Wicha Phulaikhao, known as Pigmy Kokietgym, is a Thai professional boxer whose record includes championship runs at minimumweight and light flyweight.

Regional title wins

Boxing records list Phulaikhao as a former WBC Asian Boxing Council light-flyweight champion and show additional regional title success. In 2014 he won the vacant Pan Asian Boxing Association minimumweight title. These achievements span two divisions and reflect his sustained involvement in Asian regional championship boxing.

Records also use alternate spellings of his name, including Vicha Phulaikaw. His bouts against established minimumweights such as Hekkie Budler and Songkram Porpaoin place his long career in context.

Phulaikhao’s regional title history stretches back to a WBC Asian Boxing Council light-flyweight championship in 2001. He later collected the WBF International minimumweight title in 2006 and held the WBC Asian minimumweight belt during 2007–2010. Further success included an interim version of the latter championship in 2011 and another regional minimumweight title run in 2012.

Those results show how much of his career developed around the lighter weight divisions. The regional belts also provide useful distinctions: they recognize championship achievements within their respective organizations and territories, while remaining separate from the major world championships.

His later schedule took him above minimumweight. On January 30, 2022, he challenged Nattapong Jankaew for the WBA Asia super-flyweight title in Pattaya. Jankaew retained the belt with a second-round stoppage. That appearance connects Phulaikhao’s earlier championship years with a later phase competing against a newer generation of Thai professionals.

Selected career results

A world-title opportunity came in Monaco on June 21, 2014, when Pigmy Kokietgym challenged Hekkie Budler for the WBA minimumweight championship. Budler retained the title by eighth-round knockout. The WBA’s official June ratings report records that result, and its year-end review also lists Kokietgym among Budler’s knockout opponents. This was a major world-championship challenge, separate from Phulaikhao’s regional belts in Asia.

Sources

• WBA boxer profile: Pigmy Kokietgym
• BoxRec: Pigmy Muangchaiyaphum
• PABA minimumweight title history

Additional source: WBA Asia official championship results.

Sources: https://www.wbaboxing.com/wp-content/uploads/rankings/2014-june.pdf; https://www.wbaboxing.com/boxing-news/wba-sanctioned-58-bouts-in-11-months