One man dead and world champion Aussie Muay Thai fighter, 27, in a coma after Thai hotel room tragedy

Australian boxing champion Jayson Tonkin is in the intensive care unit of a Thai hospital after being found next to the body of his dead relative in a hotel room in the coastal resort city of Pattaya.

According to Pattaya City police, the two men were found in a fourth-floor room at the hotel at 12:10 a.m. Wednesday, allegedly with “ketamine, cannabis and drug paraphernalia” on the table.

Staff at the Vogue Hotel in Pattaya “heard a commotion” on the top floor and went to room 2412 and found the deceased’s friend “panicking” and allegedly “in a state of severe intoxication.”

Daily Mail Australia has confirmed the identity of the male relative who died in the company of Muay Thai boxing champion Jayson Peter Tonkin, despite Thai media reporting that it was Jayson himself who died.

The man who died was shirtless and was wearing black shorts and a fanny pack. The commotion heard by hotel staff was reportedly due to Jayson screaming about the fact that his relative had collapsed on the floor.

The body of Tonkin’s male relative was on the floor of his Pattaya hotel room and the boxer was allegedly screaming and intoxicated before being taken to a Thai hospital and now lying in a coma.

Tonkin, who was training in Hua Hin, was due to fight in the rescheduled fight in November, but it is now unknown what condition the 27-year-old, who is in a coma on that date, will be in.

Thai media reported that: “They went up to investigate and found the deceased’s friend panicking and screaming about why his friend was lying still.”

Muay Thai contacts said it was unclear “when or if” Jayson would regain consciousness in the hospital’s ICU.

However, it is believed that police could charge him with use or possession of ketamine, a “schedule 2” drug in Thailand which carries a penalty if convicted of one to five years in prison.

Tonkin, a middleweight Muay Thai fighter, spoke about his struggle with drugs, and particularly methamphetamine, in a mental health podcast earlier this year.

Tonkin, whose boxing nickname is ‘The Dingo’, flew to Thailand last month for a fight against WBC Muay Thai world number one middleweight champion Tengnueng Sitjaesairong.

Jayson Tonkin is in a coma in the ICU of a Thai hospital after being found next to the body of a dead relative in a hotel room in the resort city of Pattaya.

Police and hotel staff inside room 2412, where they found Jayson Tonkin allegedly intoxicated, his relative dead on the floor next to him, and allegedly a quantity of ketamine, cannabis and drug paraphernalia.

Jayson Tonkin’s fight against world number one Muay Thai middleweight champion Tengnueng Sitjaesairong (above opponents combined) was postponed due to rain, but may now have to be abandoned entirely.

The Australian, originally from Manly in Sydney, said he had hoped to win by knockout in the October 20 fight, which was subsequently canceled due to monsoon rains.

Tonkin, who moved to Thailand during his teens, revealed on a podcast that he had taken up smoking ice through a Muay Thai trainer and said on Instagram: “I’m not really allowed to live here now.” I get too lost in the madness.’

But he said he had been living and training in Hua Hin, a “quiet” coastal town southwest of Bangkok.

He was found on Wednesday with the body of his relative in the most cosmopolitan metropolis of Pattaya.

“Authorities provided him with first aid before transporting him to a nearby hospital,” Thai media reported.

On the @TidesTalk podcast, Tonkin talked about smoking cannabis from the age of 17 and then doing harder drugs and starting smoking ice.

His fight against champion Tengnueng had been rescheduled for November.

Jayson Tonkin has previous convictions in New South Wales for destruction of property,