Fayeda An: Long Beach, Kun Khmer and a changing boxing career ហ្វាយេដា អាន៖ ពីឡុងប៊ីចទៅជើងឯកគុនខ្មែររបស់ WCK

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A Long Beach fighter in a Cambodian sporting exchange

Fayeda An’s direct connection with Kun Khmer is a championship result, not an assumption based on her name. On 12 April 2025, she defeated Cambodia’s Eh Yanut at Thunder Studios in Long Beach. The organizer, WCK, identifies the prize as its Kun Khmer bantamweight title. That documented meeting gives her a clear place in the international network around Cambodian boxing, while her earlier amateur Muay Thai and subsequent professional boxing require separate treatment.

Official amateur records identify her as Fayeda Satiya An, born on 21 August 1992 and fighting out of Long Beach, California. They list her height as five feet four inches. Her surname should not be used to invent ancestry, citizenship beyond the published nationality, or a personal connection with Cambodia that she has not stated. The relevant connection is already substantial: she took part in a sporting exchange organized with Cambodia’s federation and defeated a recognized Cambodian competitor.

The foundation in amateur competition

California’s IKF archives provide an earlier view of An as a developing competitor. A December 2018 result records her unanimous-decision victory over Jade Ross under modified amateur Muay Thai rules. The judges’ agreement establishes the winner, while the word “modified” reminds readers that the contest did not necessarily permit every technique associated with a professional full-rules bout. An accurate biography keeps that distinction visible rather than promoting an amateur result into a different category.

A February 2020 archive records a unanimous-decision loss to Janet Garcia in a five-round amateur full-rules contest. The scheduled rounds were two minutes each. This is an example of why the expression “five-round fight” is incomplete on its own: round duration and amateur status also shape the competitive task. These early results show An encountering different levels of opposition and different formats before the later Kun Khmer title opportunity.

The training community behind the appearances

A 2020 fundraiser organized on her behalf by UFC Gym Long Beach described the practical costs of attending the US Muay Thai Open in Phoenix. Travel, accommodation and additional health-testing requirements created expenses beyond the time spent training. The appeal named Coach Hung and described An as someone who also taught gym members. It is a useful firsthand account of a training community supporting one of its athletes, although it does not establish that the same gym remains her current affiliation.

That episode adds a different dimension to the fight record. Participation in an away tournament depends on logistics, a functioning corner and the resources to complete the trip. A gym can contribute through instruction and through the everyday support that allows a competitor to appear at all. The account is not evidence of a tournament result, and none is invented here. Its value is that it makes the preparation environment visible without turning a fundraising appeal into a sporting victory.

The WCK title against Eh Yanut

The April 2025 USA-versus-Cambodia event placed An opposite Yanut, a fighter with a long Cambodian background and experience in several international formats. WCK’s retrospective identifies An as the winner and praises her composure and pressure. Those observations support a limited description of how the organizer assessed the performance. They do not supply a complete round-by-round reconstruction, an official scorecard or a finishing technique, so the result remains intentionally precise about what is known.

The title’s meaning is also specific. It was a WCK Kun Khmer bantamweight championship, not an undisputed world ranking across every organization using the Kun Khmer name. Respecting that scope does not diminish the achievement. It makes the achievement understandable: An succeeded in a particular international title contest against a named Cambodian opponent, at a named venue and on a verified date.

A selected record across distinct rule sets

The ledger below brings together completed contests while retaining the sport and level where published. The February 2020 entry retains month precision because the exact event day was not recovered from the amateur archive. The professional boxing rows must not be added to a supposed Kun Khmer career total.

Professional boxing presented a new examination

After the WCK appearance, An’s published professional boxing ledger records a September 2025 decision loss to Qianyue Zhao, a November draw with Eli Salinas and a February 2026 decision loss to Maya Hernandez. The World Boxing Council independently confirms Hernandez’s victory at Thunder Studios. These results establish a boxing sequence, but they do not erase An’s earlier achievement in a different sport. A new rules environment can expose different aspects of an athlete’s game.

In boxing, punches have to carry the entire attacking task. There is no scoring kick to reset distance and no legal elbow available at close range. The connection between foot position, punch selection and defensive recovery therefore has a different importance from a mixed striking contest. This is a general explanation of the transition, not a claim that An lost because of one unobserved technical mistake. Without detailed footage analysis or a documented corner account, assigning a specific flaw would exceed the evidence.

The draw with Salinas is equally worth retaining. A biography built only around a title win would omit the uncertainty and development that follow it; a biography built only around the later losses would omit the achievement that brought An into the Kun Khmer conversation. Reading the sequence together gives a more balanced picture of a competitor continuing to test herself across formats.

What her career adds to KKB’s coverage

An’s story connects a local Californian training community with the international presentation of Cambodian boxing. It demonstrates that a Kun Khmer event outside Cambodia can create meaningful athlete-to-athlete exchanges, not merely display a national brand. The opponent, the rules and the title all matter. So does the work that precedes the headline: amateur rounds, coaching support, travel preparation and the willingness to begin again under a different discipline.

Three useful distinctions for readers

• Amateur modified Muay Thai, full-rules Muay Thai, Kun Khmer and professional boxing are separate competitive contexts.
• A verified title is stronger evidence than an inflated career total assembled from unrelated databases.
• Historical gym support can be described without assuming a current contract, coaching arrangement or nationality story.

The international fighter directory and event archive provide the right setting for that perspective. An’s place in the KKB network rests on a real Cambodian opponent and an official result, with the rest of her career explaining the experience around that encounter.