- Does 8 hours of gymnastics, Muay Thai, and other sports training a day.
- Highly Skilled in Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, swordplay and gymnastics.
- He speaks Thai, Khmer and he is learning English.
- Watching Jackie Chan movies and a Thai movie called Gerd ma lui (1986) influenced him to do stuntwork and eventually become a action star, but he says his biggest influence is Bruce Lee.
- Stunt-man turned actor who does not use any wire work or CG effects in his stunts.
- Robin Shou's stunt double in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997).
- He has a Black belt in Taekwondo and a Black belt in Wushu.
- Is actually of Cambodian descent, more known as "Khmer Surin".
- Joined monastic order of a Buddhist temple in Surin, Thailand. (May 2010)
- Born in a northeastern province of Thailand called Surin.
- In training for the sequal to Ong-Bak. (September 2003)
- He trained himself to jump extremely high and perform complex gymnastics because he wanted to emulate the action stars he admired such as Jackie Chan and Jet Li, but didn't realize that those stars performed stunts with the assistance of wires and mats and so ended up achieving the same abilities naturally.
- He is capable of jumping twelve feet high, without the assistance of wires, and executing a kick in mid-air hard enough to shatter wood.
- He is trained in Muay Thai, Karate, Judo, Muay Boran, Wushu, Kung Fu, Kickboxing and Taekwondo.
- Father of two daughters, named Hataipavee Yeerum and Narinrat Yeerum.
- Some of Tony's moves are inspired by Korean kicking legend Won Jin, who appeared in several martial arts movies, displaying a highly skilled acrobatic kicking style that was ahead of it's time.
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