(JUNE 23) Nongmai Sor Siriporn, 28, who in November challenged Japan’s Nanako Kikuchi unsuccessfully for the WBC women’s minimumweight title, has received a full pardon from the King of Thailand, King Bhumiphol Adulyadej and is now free. Sor Siriporn, whose real name is Wannee Chaisena, was serving a four-year sentence for the sale of methamphetamines. She was released on Tuesday along with 202 other prisoners, including three other women who participated in the prisons’ boxing program. Sor Siriporn plans to continue her boxing career and will begin training at the Singwancha camp this coming Monday. Her next fight is scheduled for sometime in August or September in Hong Kong. Of the four boxers released, Nongmai Sor Siriporn is in all likelihood the only woman who will continue with her pugilistic aspirations.

Fellow inmate Siriporn Sor Siriporn dropped a ten–round unanimous decision to Kikuchi back in May and is still incarcerated. She is scheduled to be released in 1-2 years.

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