Bangkok: A Thai kickboxing referee has gone viral after a making a diving save to spectacularly catch a knocked-out fighter before his head hit the ground during a bout in Bangkok on Saturday.
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Watch: Referee takes spectacular catch to save knocked-out kickboxer
Sittichai Ineiad was officiating a Muay Hardcore fight between So Sovarathana of Cambodia and Neymar of Thailand when So knocked Neymar out in the second round.
Referee, knocked-out, kickboxer Neymar
Sittichai Ineiad was officiating a Muay Hardcore fight between So Sovarathana of Cambodia and Neymar of Thailand when So knocked Neymar out in the second round.
But before Neymar's head hit the ground, Sittichai dived and threw his hand under the unconscious fighter's head, and he cushioned it before the fighter lay sprawled out on the canvas as the commentators screamed: "super save".
Bangkok: A Thai kickboxing referee has gone viral after a making a diving save to spectacularly catch a knocked-out fighter before his head hit the ground during a bout in Bangkok on Saturday.
Watch
Sittichai Ineiad was officiating a Muay Hardcore fight between So Sovarathana of Cambodia and Neymar of Thailand when So knocked Neymar out in the second round.
But before Neymar's head hit the ground, Sittichai dived and threw his hand under the unconscious fighter's head, and he cushioned it before the fighter lay sprawled out on the canvas as the commentators screamed: "super save".
