Kikuchi Retains Title, Batters Sor
Siriporn
Report and photos by Scott Mallon -May 12, 2006
On May 10, 2006, Thai inmate
Siriporn “The Black Rose” Sor Siriporn hoped to become the
first-ever female prisoner to win a professional boxing title but
WBC minimumweight champion Nanako Kikuchi proved to be too
strong and technically superior, winning a unanimous ten-round
decision in the Klong Prem Men’s Prison.
In November of last year, fellow inmate Nongmai Sor Siriporn hit the
headlines worldwide when she unsuccessfully challenged Kikuchi for
the vacant WBC championship. Kikuchi only began boxing three years
ago and in this time has won the Japanese women’s title as well as
the WBC world title. Siriporn Sor Siriporn is housed in the
Women’s Correctional Institution for Drug Offenders an hour outside
of the center of Bangkok. She entered the facility at the age of
seventeen and is serving ten years for drug offenses. She has four
years left on her sentence however in all likelihood this will.