Banluelok Sitwatcharachai just did the annoying thing every Muay Thai spoiler loves to do. He dragged Songchainoi Kiatsongrit into deep water at Lumpinee Stadium, beat him over three rounds in the atomweight Muay Thai main event at The Inner Circle 27, and walked out with a unanimous decision that keeps this Bangkok fight week humming. If you watched ONE 172 turn into a multi-discipline storm, you already know how fast these cards can swing from clean technique to total chaos.
The promotion highlighted the main event finish line below:
This was not some sleepy scorecard shuffle. Banluelok opened the fight by kicking at Songchainoi early and often, cracking the former ONE Atomweight Muay Thai World Title challenger with left kicks while Songchainoi tried to answer with punch combinations. By the end of round one, Songchainoi had started catching kicks and firing right hands back, which is usually when these things become less technical chess and more phone-booth violence.
Banluelok Made The Judges Easy
Round two turned into a proper pressure test. Songchainoi pushed forward and forced Banluelok to move, but Banluelok found enough space to land a big left hand late in the frame. That shot mattered because the fight was tight enough that every clean moment had to be banked like rent money, the same kind of razor-thin striking tension that made Superlek’s ONE 165 win over Takeru such a hard watch for anyone pretending elite kickboxing is gentle.
The third round had Songchainoi chasing the finish and Banluelok trying to stay busy enough to keep the cards in his pocket. Songchainoi kept throwing right hands, but Banluelok’s volume and cleaner stretches carried him to the unanimous decision. With the win, Banluelok improved to 91-22 and gave himself a loud argument for the US$100,000 main roster contract that sits like a golden carrot over these Lumpinee cards.
ONE presented the matchup and its contract stakes before fight night:
The result also gives The Inner Circle 27 a clean main-event stamp after a violent undercard already produced quick finishes and three-round grinders. Banluelok did not get the viral body-shot finish or the walk-off KO, but he got the thing that actually pays bills in this lane: a main-event win over a former title challenger with the judges all pointed his way.
Songchainoi is still a serious atomweight name, especially after the kind of title-chase run that had him near Nadaka territory earlier this year. But this unanimous decision makes the road back messier. Banluelok, meanwhile, gets the better problem. He won the main event, took the bigger name, and now waits to see whether ONE decides the contract case is loud enough in a promotion where even Demetrious Johnson’s old ONE title talk still reminds everyone how crowded the top of the mountain gets.
