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World Boxing Council female champion free
By The Nation
Published: 06/13/2007

PATHUM THANI, THAILAND - Convicted drug dealer and World Boxing Council (WBC) female light-flyweight champion, Siriporn "Samson Sor Siriporn" Thaveesuk, was released from prison yesterday after the Corrections Department decided to grant her early parole.

With tears of joy at the chance of a new start, she urged youths not engage in crime and said she was ready to defend her world title.

Siriporn - who won the title by defeating Ayaka Miyano of Japan in April and was to be included in the "Guinness Book of Records" as the first prisoner to claim a world title - still has 21 months remaining on her sentence and must report to the Corrections Department each month. Read more.

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