He was the first Indonesian boxer to hold a world champion, winning the IBF 115 lb, (super flyweight) title, the same division as Khaosai.
[1] When the two actually fought, Pigal, as the IBF champion, wore white trunks with vertical blue stripes and yellow boots.
While Pical rarely throws a punch, when he hits the target, the cheers of the hundreds of thousands of locals in the arena were deafening.
Shortly after the bell rang for the start of round 14, Japanese referee Ken Morita temporarily halted the fight and called for a doctor to come and examine Pical's wounds.
[4][5] Ellyas Pical, after this disastrous defeat, continued to box and was able to regain his IBF 115 lb title, becoming a 3-time world champion.
His record of title defenses is considered the highest among world champions in the 115 lb division and is number one among Asian boxers to this day.
He was contacted from his promoter Songchai Rattanasuban to go to Indonesia to challenge Pical, who was then the IBF champion for the third time, but he refused because he believed that he would not receive the purse that had been discussed and agreed upon, ฿800,000.