John Wayne Parr

John Wayne Parr, known as JWP and born on 25 May 1976, is a retired Australian Muay Thai fighter, kickboxer and boxer who fought out of Boonchu Gym on the Gold Coast, Queensland. He began in taekwondo at eleven, turned professional at sixteen and in 1996 moved to Thailand, where he spent four years in a Muay Thai camp, fought at Lumpinee Stadium and was voted Best Farang Fighter of the year in 1997. He took the nickname John Wayne from a Thai television western and drew an imaginary gun before bouts. Back in Australia from 1999 he opened Boonchu Gym and also boxed, and he was a former ten-time world champion and the runner-up on The Contender Asia.