Age: 50
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Tatchakorn Yeerum (Thai: ทัชชกร ยีรัมย์ | RTGS: Thatchakon Yiram | formerly Phanom Yeerum | Thai: พนม ยีรัมย์ | or internationally better known as Tony Jaa and in Thailand known as Jaa Phanom | Thai: จา พนม | RTGS: Cha Phanom), is a Thai martial artist, actor, action choreographer, stuntman, director, and traceur. His films include Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2003), Tom-Yum-Goong (2005), Ong Bak 2: The Beginning (2008), Furious 7 (2015), and SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015). Panom Yeerum was born on February 5, 1976, in the northeastern province of Surin, Thailand. His parents were elephant herders. Panom watched martial arts films as a young kid and began to emulate some of his idols, from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan to Jet Li. After seeing the Thai action film Kerd ma lui (2004) ("Born to Fight"), Panom met and studied martial arts and stunt work as a teen under the director of that film, Panna Rittikrai. Panom went to university where he studied a variety of martial arts, from taekwondo to judo. It wasn't long before Panom would get work, doubling for Robin Shou and James Remar in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), and when his demo reel was seen by director Prachya Pinkaew, the film Ong-bak (2003) was created for Panom, who is now going by the name of Tony Jaa in hopes of bringing his style of action to international audiences.
Tony Jaa
David Buathong
for David Buathong in The Dragon In The Ring
Suggested by jakubduda
Po Lee is the father of two children. He is the son of Hong Kong migrants, as a child he was bullied in Chinatown and thus learned many martial arts from Master Yip, served in the army, worked as an LAPD detective, after the death of his father he is the owner of the Lotus Palace restaurant. The family is poor and in debt to the Chinese mafia, and they want their money back. Mafia boss Brandon Fong sends men to kidnap his daughter May. Po goes to save her, thanks to the art of kung fu, karate, judo, taekwondo, jaet kun do and hapkido, he defeats all Fong's men and saves his daughter. Fong tells him if he doesn't have his money and wants to save family and the restaurant, then he has to fight for him as a pro fighter in minor league of mixed martial arts. Lee agrees. The family fears he will be seriously injured or die. 1st match he fights Gruber and wins by KO in 1:30. Then he wins over Karpov, and even in a rematch. He defeats Buathong, Kang, Rover and Rizal in a victorious campaign. He gets a UFC contract and becomes the oldest fighter. After winning over Cruz, Voynov, Chieng, Yamaguchi, Zhao, Mellvile, Kagawa, Nakata, Lung, he reaches the top 15. He is offered a match with Ferreira, but he cheats and blinds Lee during the fight, and he loses. But Po defeats him in retaliation. He is offered a fight for the Welterweight title, no one believes him, He won over Louis. In the credits scene, McGregor returns to the ring. Pacquiao wants the fight for the best Asian of all time.
