Jaosuayai “Highly Confident” In Return To Kickboxing At The Inner Circle On June 5
Jaosuayai Mor Krungthepthonburi has an 8-5 promotional record, a six-figure ONE Championship contract, and three consecutive losses. He also has an answer for all of it, and Friday night is where he delivers it.
The 24-year-old Sor Dechapan representative faces Yuan Pengjie in flyweight kickboxing at The Inner Circle on Friday, June 5, live in Asia primetime from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. It is his first kickboxing bout in nearly five years and his first appearance under a rule set he has been requesting since his ONE Championship debut.
The three-fight losing streak that precedes this moment has a single root cause in Jaosuayai’s mind. It’s not ability, not form, but the physical toll of bouncing between two weight classes without his body ever fully adjusting to either. His most recent loss to Pompet PongSuphan PK told the story plainly across three rounds.
“Going into the Pompet fight, my game plan was solid. But once we got in there, I was severely disadvantaged in terms of raw impact and strength,” Jaosuayai said. “My body hadn’t properly adjusted yet because I had just moved up from strawweight. As the fight dragged on, I just couldn’t handle his power. By the final round, I was basically fighting on pure heart alone before the referee stepped in and called it a TKO.”
The decision that has followed is permanent rather than tactical. Jaosuayai and his team have drawn a clear line under the division experiment.
“My team and I have finally found our answer: strawweight is just not for me,” he said. “From here on out, I’m planning to focus in the flyweight division for the long haul. I am done with strawweight. Right now, my body has fully recovered, and my weight is completely dialed into the division. I’m highly confident that power and impact won’t be an issue in this fight.”
The kickboxing rule set adds another dimension to the reset. Before joining ONE Championship, Jaosuayai built a reputation in Japan across six fights, reaching the final of a K-1 tournament by defeating two experienced kickboxers on the same night. That experience has been sitting unused while he competed under Muay Thai rules, and the switch on Friday night unlocks everything he has been waiting to show.
“I am incredibly excited and hyped. This marks my return to kickboxing after five years away. Honestly, I’ve been wanting to fight under this rule set in ONE for a very long time,” he said. “My confidence under this rule set is through the roof. I once beat two elite kickboxers in a single night to secure the K-1 World Grand Prix Championship runner-up spot.”
The emotional version of Jaosuayai who fought on instinct during the losing run has been set aside. The fighter returning on Friday has done the work to understand what went wrong and how the course gets corrected.
“In this fight, you’re going to see a much more composed and patient version of me. I’m going to use my fight IQ rather than letting emotion dictate the pace like I did in my recent losses,” he said. “In my entire career, I have never lost four fights in a row, and I will be damned if I let that happen now. Winning is the only option.”
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