Hassan Ait Bassou vs Anuwat Kaewsamrit, Slamm 3
June 14, 2007 by nopstar
So our latest time sink for today, is yet another bout from the Slamm III, compliments of HLbyColorgol. This match is between “Mr. Iron hands of Siam” Anuwat Kaewsamrit. I didn’t come up with that… that’s what the peeps on the forum are calling him, and “Mr. 100%” Hassan Ait Bassou.
Damn, Anuwat’s body blows are savage. You know Hassan was pissing “100%” blood. For those of you who’ve been following Anuwat’s career, you know that he just recently lost to Petch-eak Sitjaopor the other week.
He reminds me of Ramon Dekkers how he just punishes people with body blows. Seeing this clip makes me want to work on my boxing game. There was a period where my foot was jacked up and I couldn’t kick. I focused solely on my boxing for close to 3 months. It was amazing how much more tight and focused my punches got.
I find boxing to be extremely difficult. I many respects I find boxing much more difficult then Muay Thai. If your hands aren’t that great in Muay Thai you can still fall back on your kicks and knees. With Boxing however, if your hands suck your shit out of luck.
To be honest by the time I’m done with Muay Thai, I’m too tired to take a boxing session. I guess I should alternate… What do you guys do?
awesome fight.
How do boxers toughen up their body to take those rib shots?
I think it’s a lot of ab and heavy ball work?
The hard part about boxing for me is all the ducking and weaving. I’m okay at block shots and can bat most punches away (or cover for hooks) but the quickness of the bob and weave are just beyond me.
Getting punched in the face sucks a lot too when you’re box sparring and despite that I’ve done a fair share of box sparring I still get pissed sometimes when I get punched in the face. Unfortunately sometimes I rage at my sparring partner with punchs.
Taking those rib shots is about having a strong core. Doing a lot of ab work helps but so do other core excercises.
I love the way Anuwat just stops Hassan combo attact by just countering. You can see everytime Hassan try to rush Anuwat with combos, Anuwat just sends him back with a counter.
you’re right nopstar. boxing adds a tremendous edge to any muay thai fighter (with some minor adjustments). i train in a traditional thai gym and we hardly ever train in international boxing. i think its a pity. i was trained for about a year and a half by a boxing coach before i switched to muay thai (several reasons) and its always given me a substantial advantage in sparring. its a very nuanced art and extremely difficult to master, but its worth it!
think about it: the more basic an art is, the more nuanced it is, the more evolved its training methods are (especially if practiced professionally for generations), and the higher the stakes are in getting everything *just right*. boxing is, in some senses, a very basic art. but the nuances multiply the possibilities. and they train you to feel them and use them to the max. on the other hand, karate is a complex art — there are so many techniques, it may well be impossible to master every nuanced twitch that can multiply each technique’s perfection. and having trained in it for a while, i didn’t think they really had well evolved training methods. somewhere in the middle is muay thai. the sheer number of generations that have done it for a living and passed the knowledge down makes its basic methods so evolved to meet the purpose.
oops.. ranting. i *love* muay thai. but i consider the precious little training i have in boxing as.. umm.. precious!
Anuwat is a BAD man!!