This was Pradip's first muay thai fight. Singapore's muay thai exponent Bryan Tee, 19, was one of the participants who fought at the event. It came after he (then the secretary general of the Asian Bodybuilding Federation) was suspended by the world's governing body of the sport, the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness. Chua was the former chief of the now-defunct Singapore Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation, which was dropped as a National Sports Association in 2013. The Asia Fighting Championship and the Physique Championship were supposed to be the two highlights of the Asia Fitness and Health Expo.

Source: The Star September 24, 2017 03:00 UTC