5.King's Cup - Bangkok, Thailand - March-April 1979
Preliminaries & quarter-finals & semi-finals (only some):
| 57kg | Vyacheslav Kolikov | URS | Suvan Piamriathi | THA | KO 3 |
| 63,5kg | Alexey Biriukov | URS | Tiravat Chantriti | THA | KO 2 |
| 71kg | Sambel Abramyan | URS | Tongchai Kraivanit | THA | KO 1 |
| 57kg | Viroj Srivapa | THA | Vyacheslav Kolikov | URS | PTS |
| 75kg | Phil McElwaine | AUS | Anatoliy Moyseyev | URS | PTS |
| +81kg | Jimmy Clark | USA | Viktor Ulyanich | URS | PTS |
Finals:
| 48kg | Somair Buarhong | THA | Kim Myung Wan | KOR | PTS |
| 51kg | Suwan Silpaya | THA | Somsak Netrnoi | THA | PTS |
| 54kg | Pradit Srisatid | THA | Cho Maneerassayakorn | THA | WO. |
| 57kg | Viroj Srivapa | THA | Veerasak Konkaew | THA | PTS |
| 60kg | Evgeniy Kotov | URS | Tongtuam Srimora | THA | PTS |
| 63,5kg | Pat Jefferson | USA | Bontam Un-Asa | THA | PTS |
| 67kg | Oleg Teptsov | URS | Sergey Radkevich | URS | WO. |
| 71kg | Sambel Abramyan | URS | Rabiab Sangnuan | THA | PTS |
| 75kg | Phil McElwaine | AUS | Adin Sinag | PAK | PTS |
| 81kg | Algirdas Jancauskas | URS | Boonsri Tipsrinuan | THA | RSC 1 |
| +81kg | Jimmy Clark | USA | Erik Hansen | DEN | KO 1 |