A nine-bout card returns to Lumpinee Stadium this week. The thread connecting its two biggest fights runs straight through one of Muay Thai’s most beloved figures.

Southpaw powerhouse Kongklai Sor Sommai meets Moroccan puncher Adam Benwarwar in a bantamweight Muay Thai main event on Friday, July 17 at ONE Friday Fights 162. The card broadcasts live in Asia primetime from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.

Kongklai’s story is the kind Muay Thai was built to tell. He lost his first ten professional fights and kept going anyway. Eventually, he strung together an 18-bout winning streak that included the only knockout of Seksan Or Kwanmuang ever recorded in the big gloves.

The 27-year-old carries that legacy into Friday’s fight looking to get back on track after a tough loss to Julio Lobo at ONE Friday Fights 152. Benwarwar needs no extra motivation of his own, having announced himself with a first-round knockout and an explosive striking arsenal.

Khunponnoi aims to step out of his brother’s shadow at ONE Friday Fights 162

The co-main event brings the Seksan connection full circle. Khunponnoi Sor Sommai, the younger brother of “The Man Who Yields To No One,” takes on Scotland’s Gregor Thom in a flyweight Muay Thai matchup on the same card that headlines the man who once knocked his brother out.

The 33-year-old Sor Sommai product has 127 professional wins, including 28 knockouts, and has spent years working to step out of the most beloved shadow in ONE Championship. Thom’s own story is one of the series’ great origin tales, a fighter who started training during pandemic lockdown boredom and forged himself into a legitimate threat with a powerful low-kick game.

Rounding out the card, seven further bouts span Muay Thai, kickboxing, and MMA, with every fighter chasing the same prize: a life-changing US$100,000 contract and a permanent spot on ONE Championship’s global roster.