At the age of 18, Dida Diafat left the town of Villiers le Bel (Val d'Oise) to join the Muay Thai training camps of Thailand and became 3 years later the first Algerian and Frenchman to be a Muay Thai world champion. He became the first Thai kickboxing fighter to win a contract with a French television channel - specifically,
Canal+ in 1994. Following the release of
Chok Dee he retired from kickboxing and decided to pursue a career in acting and in the clothing business. He had a role in the 2009
horror film Mutants. ==Titles and achievements==