JAID ROUTE OF A SPOILT NAKMUAY
JAID ROUTE OF A SPOILT NAKMUAY
by Serge TREFEU (2016)
Jaid nicknamed “Little Big Man” began the boxing enough late, towards the age of 18 years. But this wonder boy of boxing rings is quickly going to become an exceptional champion. He begins his apprenticeship of Muay Thai to the Bellonie Gym in city of Montreuil beside French legends of Muay Thai such as Stephane Nikiema and Philippe Cantamessi. Then, he will train for the famous Yamatsuki Gym held by Master Paschy, and will end his career in one of the biggest gym of moment, the Derek Boxing. The trainers of time to the Derek were the famous brothers Desjardins, René and Antoine.
For his first fight, Jaid meets a boxer who is 10 kg more than him, but he gains his match by flooring several times his opponent!
Down from it’s 1m60, Jaid is not a giant but his mental and his aggressiveness to win on the boxing ring impresses a lot of people.
Jaid takes away his first title important in 1983 by becoming a France champion of Thai boxing. Then, in 1986, he won champion’s belt of Europe – 52 kg against Ploos, a Dutch of famous Chakuriki Gym. The Dutch was heavier than Jaid but French is going to put him KO with a magnificent blow of knees. The fight was live broadcast on the channel Canal+, Jaid was one of the French first ones to fight on TV Canal+.
The title of European champion, Jaid won ten times in four different categories!
For this belt, he beat in particular killers of the discipline such as the Dutch Mickael Lieuwfat (World champion of Thai boxing) which was 5 kilos more than Jaid when they were in confrontation, Jaid broke the knee of the Dutch. As well as rough Belgian champion Yigin Osman (World champion of Thai boxing, world champion of Kickboxing) whom he beat at his home in Belgium for champion’s belt of Europe in Kickboxing.
Jaid often met fighters heavier than him as the great champion Abel El Quandili (World champion of Kickboxing, world champion of Full contact) who was 7 kilos more than him (Lose in points)…
His first title of World champion in Thai boxing, Jaid is going to take away him in front of formidable Thai Payatnoi, in 1991, in Paris, in the Japy stadium. He will gain three times the supreme title.
WORLD CHAMPION OF THAI BOXING
But Jaid was also a bulimic of the fight, he did not hesitate to go to challenge the champions in other disciplines that him. He’s so going to become a world champion and a Europe champion in Kickboxing and in Full contact, and same Vice World champion in Savate boxing!
Jaid was a charismatic boxer because he revealed his enthusiasm as well on the boxing ring as outside the boxing ring. Author of memorable fight in front of great champions as Payatnoi, Hippy Singmanee, Rambo Pongsiri, Pannoi Chuwattana, Maithanoy Sor Maleewan, Mickael Lieuwfat, Yigin Osman, Rachid El Herdmi, Abel El Quandili. He really met the best of his category and to leave it’s mark on the story of French Muay Thai. It’s moreover one of the boxers feet and fist the most titled until today. His fighter’s nickname “Little Big Man” reflects well his great career!
His incredible fight’s record he owes him to his work persisted in the training and in his big experience in Thailand. Jaid went in Thailand at the beginning of the 80s. It was one of the French first ones to fight in the stadium of Ratchadamnoen then in the stadium of Lumpinee. And when he fought in Thailand it was for the biggest promoter of the Lumpinee, Mr. Songchai Ratanasuban.
But it was especially an adventurer of training camps in Thailand, authentic camps in which he forged his mental warrior and acquired the techniques of pure Muay Thai. At that time, for a foreigner, it was not also easy as today to integrate a camp of boxing in Thailand. It was necessary to prove his value as much on the boxing ring as to the training to be accepted by the owner of the camp…
His first camp was the one of the promoter Naris in Bangkok. A renowned camp where was the champions Attapong, Yousoth, Lomthai, Somsong, Kiosot…
ATTAPONG FANTA
Then it will become a true globe trotter boxing camps by going in Pinsinchai Gym, the camp of the great champions Burlek and Seancheung.
BURLEK PINSINCHAI
SEANCHEUNG PINSINCHAI
Then, to Por Pongsawang Gym, the camp of the famous three brothers, the champions Dekdouan, Domaipha and Tukathatong in this camp there was also the terror Toto Por Pongsawan.
DEKDOUAN, DOMAIPHA, TUKATHATONG
He will also test the camp of the star Samransak, the Muangsurin Gym where was at the time the champions Den Muangsurin, Jonrob and Saensucknoi.
SAMRANSAK MUANGSURIN
In Kietbanchong Gym, Jaid is going to train with Jaroenthong, Oley, Jaroensap, the great stars of moment. It’s to the camp Kietbanchong that Jaid is going to meet the great champion Wangchanoi Sor Palangchai who was also an adventurer of the camps of boxing.
JAROENTHONG KIETBANCHONG
JAROENSAP KIETBANCHONG
OLEY KIETWANWEI
WANGCHANOI SOR PALANGCHAI
Jaid will stay longtime and prepare for his fights in Thailand in Pattaya to famous Sityodtong camp, the camp of the living legend Samart Payakaroon.
SAMART PAYAKAROON
KHRU YODTONG (DIED IN 2013) OWNER OF FAMOUS CAMP SITYODTONG GREATLY APPRECIATED JAID
Our French champion also trains several times to Phanyuthapum Gym, in Samut Prakarn, the camp of the star Langsuan Phanyuthapum, to Bangkok, at Sor Thanikul Gym, the camp formidable twin brothers Bonlay and Boonlug, at Ha Palang Gym, the camp of legends Dieselnoi, Chamophet and Panomtuanglek, as well as luxurious camp Sor Ploenchit, the camp of the star Kaensak Sor Poenchit.
LANGSUAN PHANYUTHAPUM
BONLAY SOR THANIKUL AND BOONLUG SOR THANIKUL
DIESELNOI CHOR THANASUKARN
CHAMOPHET HA PALANG
PANOMTUANGLEK HA PALANG
KAENSAK SOR PLOENCHIT
THEY ARE RARE THE FOREIGNERS TO PUT IN PHOTO WITH THE BIGGEST PROMOTER OF THE 80S, KLEO THANIKUL, OWNER OF THE CAMP SOR THANIKUL (MURDERED IN 1991)
JAID SURROUNDED BY THE LEGENDS OF THE 80S, CHAMOPHET HA PALANG AND DIESELNOI CHOR THANASUKARN OF THE CAMP HA PALANG
It’s thanks to his numerous trainings in these various camps and his two memorable fights in front of killers Hippy and Rambo that Jaid was enormously respected by Thai. Despite to have lost in points in the face of Hippy in Paris and against Rambo in Japan, Jaid marked the spirits of the Thai fans because his two fights were broadcast live by a Thai TV channel!
HIPPY SINGMANEE
RAMBO PONGSIREE
Indeed, little foreign fighter can brag to have faced the champions such as Hippy Singmanee and Rambo Pongsiree who were in Thailand the real scarecrows of the discipline!
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN CARPENTIER STADIUM IN 1989, HIPPY SINGMANEE AGAINST JAID SEDDAK, DURING THEIR CONFRONTATION JAID WAS A EUROPE CHAMPION WITH 28 FIGHTS AND HIPPY LUMPINEE CHAMPION WITH MORE THAN 100 FIGHTS
Jaid had become so much known in Thailand in the world of Muay Thai that he sometimes supported two champions at the same time who fought in the Lumpinee or Radja. During match between two boxers which he knew, not to hurt the owners and the boxers of the camp, Jaid was going to encourage during a round a champion then in the following round he went fast in the corner from the other fighter…
JAID AND GREAT CHAMPION KARUHAT SOR SUPAWAN
JAID AND THE MAGICIAN OF BOXING RINGS SAENCHAI SOR KINGSTAR
JAID WITH HIS GREAT FRIEND THE LEGENDARY VIKING OF THE RINGS ROB KAMAN
JAID WITH GREAT CHAMPION FARID VILLAUME
In parallel of his boxer’s career, Jaid was always also in the world of the Hip-hop, in the 80s it was an excellent DJ. He’s moreover a member of the movement ” Zulu Nation ” which is the base of the culture Hip-hop which includes the rap, the graff and the urban dance. The founder of the Zulu Nation is the famous musician Afrika Bambaataa. Jaid is the great friend of Afrika Bambaataa, they know each other since the 90s. The nickname of Jaid in the world of the Hip-hop is “King Jaid”.
JAID IN RECORD DECK WITH MASTER BAMBAATAA
MISTER AFRIKA BAMBAATAA WITH KING JAID
ZULU NATION COMPANY
In the early 2000s, Jaid produced an album called “Sur un air Positif” (On a tune Positive), whose proceeds were donated to an association fighting against AIDS. In this album, there were many french artists such as Diams, Fonky Family, Akhénaton, 113, Rohff, Arsenik, Passi, Pit Pacardi, Assasin, Cheb Mami, Samy Naceri…
ALBUM “SUR UN AIR POSITIF”
Jaid is a “showman” who knows everyone in the world of show business, he rubbed shoulders with the world’s biggest stars like Mickey Rourke, Johnny Depp, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and French stars, Tchéky Karyo, Valerie Lemercier, Emma Decaune, Samy Naceri, Joey Starr, Abd Al Malik, Gérard Lanvin, Gilles Lellouche, Bruno Putzullu, Eric Cantona, Mathieu Kassovitz …
SUPERSTAR MICKEY ROURKE IS A FRIEND OF JAID
JAID IS PERSONAL FRIEND OF THE HOLLYWOOD STAR JOHNNY DEPP
CONFRONTATION BETWEEN REDOUTABLE STEVEN SEAGAL AND LITTLE BIG MAN
THE STAR OF MOVIES ACTION JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME, JAID SEDDAK, THE RAP STAR ICE-T
THE SINGER ABD AL MALIK, THE ACTOR MATHIEU KASSOVITZ, THE BOXER JAID SEDDAK
LITTLE BIG MAN SURROUNDED BROTHERS CANTONA
JAID AND ACTOR GILLES LELLOUCHE
THE ACTOR GERARD LANVIN AND JAID SEDDAK
JAID WITH GREAT MUSICIAN MANU DIBANGO
JAID AND THE GRAND ACTOR BRUNO PUTZULU
THE FAMOUS PUBLICITY AGENT JACQUES SÉGUÉLA IS A FRIEND OF JAID
JAID AND STAR X 90 YEARS TABATHA CASH
JAID SEDDAK
Nickname: Little Big Man
Date of birth: September 21, 1962
Height: 1.60m
Weight: 55 Kg
Number of fight: 73. 63 Wins. 10 Losses.
Title:
Thai Boxing: World Champion (1992, 1993, 1994). Europe champion (1986 and 1994). France Champion (1985 to 1992)
Kick Boxing: World Champion (1990 and 1995). Europe champion (1988, 1989, 1990). France Champion (1987)
Full-Contact: World Champion (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995). Europe Champion (1991)
Team: Bellonie Gym – Yamatsuki Gym – Derek Boxing
Special sign: Has never been knocked out or counted during his career
Photos: Pascal Le Cossec, Karaté Bushido, Siamfightmag