By BKK INK Team · Published September 2026
Award-winning Bangkok tattoo studio on Thanon Tanao since 2009 · rated 4.8/5 on Google across 1,100+ reviews, and 96% recommended on Facebook across 850+ · right at the end of Khaosan Road · English, French and Thai spoken.
Over the years our Bangkok studio has built a real connection to Muay Thai and the world of professional fighting. We have sponsored ONE Championship athletes, Songchainoi, Kongthoranee and Yod IQ among them, who once carried our colours into the ring, and we have tattooed world champions including Tawanchai, Jonathan Haggerty and Singdam, along with many others. This is the story of how that relationship formed, and why elite athletes, who can choose any artist on earth, keep choosing a studio right at the end of Khaosan Road.
How the fight connection began
Our link to Muay Thai grew the way most real things do in Bangkok, through proximity, shared culture, and word of mouth between people who train hard and respect craft.
Fighters and tattoo artists share a certain temperament. Both commit to something permanent, both train obsessively, and both live with the results in public. We started sponsoring ONE Championship athletes, Songchainoi, Kongthoranee and Yod IQ, who wore our colours on the ring walk and in the cage. For a stretch, that visibility meant our name travelled with some of the most exciting Muay Thai and mixed-martial-arts talent in Asia. ONE Championship has since changed its rules and that kind of brand placement on fighters is no longer permitted, so it belongs to a chapter that is now closed. But the relationships it built did not close. The fighters stayed, the trust stayed, and the studio kept being a place where people from the fight world feel at home.
Sponsorship that became friendship
Sponsorship opened the door, but the reason champions kept coming back was the work and the people, not a logo on a pair of shorts.
When you put your name on an athlete, you are betting on them in public, and they remember who believed in them early. That is how a sponsorship turns into something more durable than marketing. Over time, fighters we backed brought training partners, coaches and friends through the door. Word spread inside gyms across Thailand that there was a studio in Banglamphu that understood their world, kept sterile, single-use standards, and treated a world champion the same as a first-time tourist. None of that was a campaign. It was simply how the room operated, day after day, and the fight community noticed.
Champions who have sat in our chairs
We have tattooed Muay Thai and combat-sport world champions including Tawanchai, Jonathan Haggerty and Singdam, alongside many other fighters whose names fill ONE Championship and Muay Thai cards.
These are athletes who compete at the highest level the sport offers. Tawanchai and Singdam are central figures in modern Muay Thai, and Jonathan Haggerty is a multiple-sport world champion, kickboxing and Muay Thai, who has carried British Muay Thai onto the global stage. We are deliberately not going to claim which specific design each of them carries, because their tattoos are personal and we will not put words in their skin. What matters here is the pattern: when fighters at that level are in Bangkok and want ink, our studio is on the short list. That is not an accident of geography. It is the result of years of showing the same standard to everyone, whether they walked off a ONE Championship poster or off Khaosan Road.
Why elite athletes choose a studio carefully
Professional fighters choose tattoo studios on three things, hygiene, reliability and reputation, because for them an infected tattoo is not an inconvenience, it is a missed fight and a lost paycheque.
For a working athlete, the stakes around a tattoo are different from a tourist’s. A skin infection can pull someone out of a training camp, fail a pre-fight medical, or sideline them for weeks during a critical stretch of their career. So fighters scrutinise the things casual clients often ignore: is the setup genuinely single-use, is the environment genuinely sterile, does the studio have a track record of doing this for serious people without incident. They ask around their gym, they look at who else has been tattooed there, and they weigh the studio’s reputation the way they would weigh an opponent. Elite athletes do not gamble on the avoidable. They want a place that treats sterility as non-negotiable and shows up reliably, session after session.
Sterile, single-use practice is the foundation of that trust
The single biggest reason athletes trust us is our hygiene: single-use, sealed, sterile practice applied to every client without exception.
Hygiene is where reputation with athletes is actually won. Fighters live by their bodies, and many have seen a teammate lose camp time to a careless tattoo or a dirty needle somewhere on the road. When the setup is visibly fresh and sealed, when nothing is reused, when the standard does not drop because the client is “just a tourist,” that consistency is what a professional notices. It is also what they tell their gym. The same sterile discipline that protects a first-time visitor from Khaosan Road is exactly what reassures a ONE Championship athlete days before a bout. There is no separate, higher standard reserved for famous clients, the standard is already at the ceiling, and that is precisely why champions are comfortable here. You can read more about how we operate as a team on our about page and in our FAQ.
What Muay Thai means in Thailand
Muay Thai is not just a sport in Thailand, it is national heritage, woven through festivals, history and identity, which is why tattooing its champions carries weight beyond the ink.
Known as “the art of eight limbs,” Muay Thai is a centuries-old martial art that sits close to the heart of Thai culture. Its rituals, from the wai khru ram muay dance to the sacred ceremonies around fighters, share deep roots with Thailand’s tattoo traditions, including the spiritual Sak Yant lineage. To tattoo a Muay Thai world champion in Bangkok, the city where so much of the modern sport is staged, is to stand at the meeting point of two enduring Thai art forms, the fight and the mark. Being part of that world, even at the edges, is something our studio does not take lightly.
The street, art and music culture around the studio
The studio sits inside a wider street-culture scene, skateboarding, music, art shows and tattoo events, that connects naturally to the energy of the fight world.
Our corner of Banglamphu has always been more than a place to get tattooed. We have hosted and joined Preduce nights, Preduce being Thailand’s leading skateboard brand, put on art exhibitions, run tattoo events inside bars, and welcomed live shows including concerts from 4Bang. That overlap of skating, music, contemporary art and tattooing is the same creative undercurrent that runs through combat sports culture: discipline, self-expression, and a community built around doing difficult things well. Fighters, skaters, musicians and artists move through the same rooms here. It is one reason the studio feels less like a shop and more like a hub, and why the connection to Muay Thai never felt out of place. The street and the ring have always spoken the same language.
What this means for you
If a studio is trusted by world champions whose careers depend on flawless hygiene, that same standard is exactly what protects you, whether you are a fighter or a first-time visitor.
You do not need a title belt to benefit from the way we work. The single-use, sterile discipline that lets a ONE Championship athlete sit down days before a bout is the same discipline applied to your appointment. The reliability that keeps fighters coming back is the same reliability you get when you book. If you want to plan a piece, book a free consultation, meet artists such as Ball BKK, or read our FAQ. The fighters chose us for reasons that serve you just as well.
Frequently asked questions
Has your studio really tattooed Muay Thai world champions?
Yes. We have tattooed world champions including Tawanchai, Jonathan Haggerty and Singdam, along with many other professional fighters from the Muay Thai and ONE Championship scene.
Did you sponsor ONE Championship fighters?
We sponsored ONE Championship athletes such as Songchainoi, Kongthoranee and Yod IQ, who wore our colours in competition. ONE Championship rules have since changed and that brand placement is no longer permitted.
Why do professional athletes care so much about the tattoo studio they choose?
For a fighter, a skin infection can mean a missed fight or failed medical. They prioritise hygiene, reliability and reputation, choosing studios with proven single-use, sterile practice.
What hygiene standard do you use?
Single-use, sealed, sterile equipment on every client without exception, with nothing reused. The same standard protects a world champion and a first-time tourist alike.
Can I get tattooed there even if I’m not a fighter?
Absolutely. The same hygiene and reliability that athletes trust applies to every client. You can book a free consultation regardless of your background.
Where is the studio located?
At 143 Thanon Tanao in the Phra Nakhon district of Bangkok, about right at the end of Khaosan Road, with English, French and Thai spoken.