Three ISKA titles at Krud Kun Khmer on 29 November 2025 ជើងឯក ISKA បីរូបនៅគ្រុឌ ថ្ងៃទី២៩ ខែវិច្ឆិកា ឆ្នាំ២០២៥

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A championship night in Kambol

Krud Kun Khmer brought three documented ISKA Intercontinental championship outcomes to Phnom Penh on 29 November 2025. Som Vichai won at 63.5 kg, Long Samnang at 65 kg and Chhut Serey Vannthong at 59 kg. Their opponents came from China, Brazil and France respectively. The results give the evening a clearly international character without requiring an invented attendance record or an assumption that every supporting contest has been recovered.

ISKA’s own report, published on 1 December, locates the event at premises in Sungun Pich Village, Kambol district. It also identifies Vichai and Samnang as Ministry of Interior fighters. These details anchor the occasion in a particular place and sporting network. They are more informative than treating Krud as a single permanent arena: a circuit name, a sponsor identity and the physical site of one event are different pieces of information.

Som Vichai takes the 63.5 kg title

Som Vichai defeated China’s Li Tiantao on points to win the ISKA Kun Khmer Intercontinental belt at 63.5 kg. The primary report confirms the two participants, the title category and the winning method. It does not publish the individual judges’ totals or specify unanimous, majority or split agreement. The appropriate description is therefore a points victory, rather than a more emphatic verdict manufactured from the fact that Vichai received the belt.

A championship decided on points carries a different narrative from a short finish. Vichai’s result depended on completing the scoring process and receiving the official decision. That establishes success in this title contest, but does not reveal the exact pattern of exchanges or which round proved decisive. A responsible sporting reading can recognise the achievement while leaving the detailed tactical judgement to a complete replay and the applicable scoring rules.

Long Samnang stops Bryan Moura

Long Samnang won the 65 kg title by knocking out Brazil’s Bryan Moura in the second round. Unlike the points result above, the primary bulletin supplies both a finish classification and a round. This makes the outcome particularly straightforward to preserve: Samnang was the winner, Moura his opponent, and round two the point at which the contest ended. No precise time or finishing strike is included in that report.

The significance is not merely that the match finished early. Samnang’s result added another weight category to the evening’s Cambodian championship successes and placed a Brazilian opponent in the event’s international picture. It should not be converted into a claim about either athlete’s complete career record. Nor should a later biography or a separate appearance under another discipline be silently folded into this specific Kun Khmer championship result.

Keeping the final separate from an incomplete bracket

A secondary bout table also lists a same-day Samnang win over Soth Kevin before the Moura final. That is a useful research lead, but the recovered ISKA bulletin does not provide the complete bracket. This page therefore centres on the title bout confirmed by the sanctioning body. It does not invent the missing semifinal, the size of the tournament or the sequence in which the entire programme was staged.

Vannthong’s third-round championship win

Chhut Serey Vannthong defeated France’s Andrany Lingkhao in the third round to take the ISKA Kun Khmer Intercontinental title at 59 kg. The primary report names Lingkhao and describes him as a holder of titles from several organisations. That contextual description should not be enlarged into an unverified list of championships. The important result is the particular title that Vannthong won on this date against this opponent.

The bulletin gives the round but does not explicitly distinguish knockout from technical knockout. A secondary record supplies a narrower label and a time, but those details are not needed to make the primary result intelligible. The table retains a third-round victory with the exact finish classification unresolved. This protects the athlete’s record from a common error: treating two related methods as interchangeable simply because both end a fight before the scheduled distance.

The three recovered championship outcomes

What the titles represent

All three awards are identified here at the level reported by ISKA: Intercontinental Kun Khmer championships. The term is important because a world title, a continental or regional title and a promotional trophy are not interchangeable descriptions. Even when the same athletes appear across several circuits, the organisation, discipline and weight must stay attached to each achievement. This night belongs to the ISKA championship history of the named fighters.

The two nearby limits of 63.5 and 65 kg also deserve separate treatment. They are not rounding variants of one contest. Vichai and Samnang faced different opponents for different title categories. Keeping those numbers precise helps readers follow future appearances without assuming that an athlete always competes at one unchanging weight. These are the categories of the reported championship bouts, not a claim about the fighters’ everyday body mass.

A useful reference for clubs and supporters

For Cambodian clubs, the programme illustrates several routes to a successful international title night: a points verdict, a second-round knockout and a third-round win whose precise classification still needs a fuller result sheet. Those outcomes should encourage attention to the entire contest rather than a single promotional label. They do not establish that one method is inherently more valuable for every athlete, or that a result alone explains the training behind it.

• Search the date, title organisation and both names to distinguish these bouts from rematches.
• Retain the title level and weight when recording each championship.
• Do not add a broadcaster or a start time from a different Krud event.
• Treat the three rows as the recovered championship card, not a claim that no other matches occurred.

Continue through the KKB events section and fighter directory. This Phnom Penh evening can be remembered for three concrete sporting achievements without embellishing its audience, tactical detail or undercard. The original ISKA report supplies the foundation; a full event recording or official score sheets could refine the remaining details.