Seksan Or Kwanmuang Closes Career After Inner Circle 30 TKO
Seksan “The Man Who Yields To No One” Or Kwanmuang closed his striking career at The Inner Circle 30 on Friday, and the last round did not wait for a farewell decision. Muangthai “Elbow Zombie” PK Saenchai stopped him by TKO at 0:59 of round three at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok.
It was the sixth meeting in a rivalry that started in 2015. Seksan won the first four on the Thai circuit. Muangthai finally got one back by unanimous decision at ONE Friday Fights 114 in June 2025. The retirement fight gave the Elbow Zombie the last word.
Seksan had already said this was the end, win or lose. He is 37 and has been fighting since he was 8. Before the bell he described an empty, fluttering feeling in his chest and a body that would no longer let him live up to the nickname.
“I’ve been fighting since I was 8 years old, and now I’m nearly 38,” Seksan said. “Part of me feels a bit heartbroken, but it’s necessary.”
He was specific about why. The pace was gone. Shots that used to bounce off him now stayed. Even his own kicks and elbows hurt on the way out.
“I realized my body just isn’t what it used to be. I can’t push the pace like I used to. It hurts anywhere I get hit,” he said. “Sometimes even when my own kicks or elbows connect, I feel the pain myself. So I made up my mind to hang up the gloves and retire after this fight.”
He still promised the version of himself the Lumpinee crowd paid to see. “It’s the final three rounds of my Muay Thai career, so there will be no holding back,” he said. “I’m going to fight with everything I have.”
Muangthai treated that as an invitation, not a eulogy. “I respect Seksan immensely outside the ring, but once that bell rings, it’s all out,” he said. “If the knockout presents itself, I’ll take it, but even if it goes the distance, I’m putting on a show.”
He took it. The stoppage in the third round ended a career that ran through Rajadamnern, Omnoi, Channel 7, and the WBC Muay Thai ranks. Seksan is a four-time Muay Thai world champion, a 2015 Sports Authority of Thailand Fighter of the Year, and a man who shared wars with Rodtang Jitmuangnon, Superlek Kiatmoo9, and Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong. The nickname came from a Rajadamnern night in 2011 when he was knocked down twice, got one back, and still won by knockout.
ONE Championship turned the late chapter into a living. He debuted on the Lumpinee Friday Fights stage in January 2023, ran a perfect first year, and turned performance bonuses and a six-figure contract into a house, school money, and the kind of security Thai stadium fighters rarely get to keep. His ONE record finished 10-6. The last line is a TKO in a retirement fight against the rival who would not let him leave quiet.
That is the honest close, not a storybook one. The Man Who Yields To No One yielded to time first, then to Muangthai’s elbows. He said the body made the decision. The third round made it public.
Yod-IQ Or Pimolsri won the Inner Circle 30 main event by unanimous decision over Rambolek Chor Ajalaboon, who had missed weight and could not take the bantamweight Muay Thai world title. The night will still be remembered for the man who walked out knowing there would not be another walk.
Seksan is done. He asked for three rounds with nothing held back and got two minutes of the third before the referee stepped in. Muay Thai does not owe legends a decision. It owed this one a last war at Lumpinee, and it paid. The gloves stay hung. The nickname stays on the record.