Muay Thai star Buakaw's next target: cat attackers

Boxer Buakaw Banchamek (right) files a complaint at Lat Phrao police station about one of his cats being killed and another injured. (Photo from Banchamek Gym Facebook)

Muay Thai superstar Buakaw Banchamek has sought help from police to find who attacked his cats, killing one and badly injuring another.

The former K-1 welterweight skipped training on Wednesday to go to Lat Phrao police station to write out a complaint asking officers to find who was responsible for the attacks.

Buakaw, whose real name is Sombat Banchamek, posted on his Facebook page, Banchamek Gym, about the complaint filed to the police.

An injured cat of Buakaw is being nursed at an animal hospital. (Photo from Banchamek Gym Facebook)

Lat Phrao police chief Pol Col Suksit Meesawad on Thursday confirmed the meeting with the boxer and said officers were ordered to check all closed circuit cameras in the area around his gym on Soi Pho Kaew 19 off Nawamin Road.

The officer said it would be too early to conclude that the cats were attacked as they could have been hit by passing vehicles.

Buakaw did not say when the cats were attacked but Surachet Duangchan, who manages his boxing camp, said it happened on Saturday.

The boxer wrote a follow-up on Thursday that one of his pets was dead and another is being treated at an animal hospital. The felines were with him at the gym.

After posting the message on the social media, some commenters called his move a marketing ploy before they were overwhelmingly condemned by his followers for "having no brain".

"Buakaw, don't forget to give those critics a lesson too," one of his supporters said.