My World Title Shot
September 20, 2007 by nopstar
I’ve been training pretty hard lately; I’ve noticed that as my training progresses the more injuries I’m accumulating along the way. I’ve got just a little over a month to get ready, but hey it’s the World Championships and nobody said it was going to be easy.
Nuapetch Sakhomsil giving me a beatdown
Actually, they didn’t actually come out and say it was going to be easy… they are handing out 170 belts. Something tells me it does imply some lax standards. I’m hoping Buakaw, and Yodsanklai are too busy to make it. Look I’m not getting any younger, and this has got to be my best chance. I think their advertisement says it best
“What does Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson have, Evander Holyfield and Muhammad Ali have that you want? A world title belt”
I’m hoping a lot of you guys don’t see this, I don’t need anyone interfering with my chances of taking home my World Title belt. Watch out Essex Community College, I’m coming to collect my belt.
hey, go for it.
i just hope ur intentions go beyond getting the belt, most guys doing it for the belt dont get very far..
wmc .muaythai .better
hahahah-
Anonymous, this must be the your first time on my blog.
Wait, So their giving out 170 belts? That means there must be no less than 170 bouts right? That means there’s over 340 contestants. Hey, if I get lucky and they put me against a lesser opponent, I just might be able to gain a WORLD TITLE BELT myself. This just might be the largest fight sanction in the world. I wonder how long it will take to get done with 170 fights.
Screw the belt. I am coming for the DIAMONDS…
Yeah Nop, your humor is clearly lost on people new to your blog. I can’t wait until their first interaction with Tong Po….
Did anyone else look at the divisions?
“Self Defense”?
“Continuous Contact Black Belt Sparring”?
“Black Belt Adult Fighting?”
Does this mean one area of the gym will be devoted to gloves-on competition and another will feature a no-holds barred brawl? And how do you judge a division based on “Self Defense” anyway?
Holy crap this is awesome! I almost want to go just to see how insane it is going to be.
Reminds me of the classic documentary Fighting Black Kings that I just watched in its entirety a few weeks ago..
Cmon.. you know you have seen it :
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LuAnH-f5n-c
Hells yeah,
This was one of the documentaries I watched as a kid. So strange but this documentary left such an indelible mark on how I view training. It was basically what got me into Karate in the first place. One of the clips that always stands out in my mind is this one.
The few minutes leading up to this particular clip are missing. Its shows the Kyokushin guy training for his fight with the Wing Chun guy. It shows him jogging through the forest, stopping a beating the shit out of a tree, then it cuts to him weight training and working a heavy bag. Then they show this clip of this poor bastard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yS7hyIRz7E
I remember watching with my dad and he just started laughing… he was like this guy (Wing Chun) is dead. I’ll always remember it, obviously this film is meant to be a promotional tool, but when you’re a kid your like “screw forms I’m wanna work out!”
Nop,
Not only was that guy 6 ft. 4′ and huge, as he is beating the shit out of the tree, he head butts it!!
That was the best part of the documentary for me. The shots of all the peeps training. Lots of katas in rivers with epic scenery behind them. Lots of barefoot running in the streets of New York or Tokyo. And most of all, thunderous kiiaappssss from everyone as they throw a crazy kick at the camera for overall bad-ass-ness. Too comical.
I’m so there.. Maybe I should just order one from Ringside – it’ll be cheaper..
I am think I could come in second place. Unfortunately, there are only 2 of us in the ring. If there was oil wrestling, maybe I might have a chance…
$10,000 worth of diamnond rings!!!!! I’d go just to look at the rings. If you win that belt you’re also gonna get blinged out with a diamond ring??!!
Hey Nopstar,
I am moving to Baltimore and I am looking for a muay thai gym in the area. Seeing as your tourney is in B’more, I was wondering if there were any you would recommend in the area.
Thanks
NOP: You having a tournament and I’m not invited? Bastard.. You want all the title belts for yourself ..don’t you lol
Mike-
I”m as the English would say, taking the piss. I don’t know of any camps in the Baltimore area, but I notice from my logs I’ve got visitors from that area… Baltimore peeps where you at?
So judging by the emails I’m getting, people actually think I’m fighting in this thing. I’m joking people this is a joke. Thanks for the emails though…
JU CAN DO IT!!!
So, what were the results?
Rash thanks for asking…
It went great actually. I was a bit nervous, I almost didn’t get to register because it was for black belts only, but my trainer distracted the guy at the desk long enough for my girl friend to “borrow” a black belt from someone.
The tournament got off to a slow start, but I was able to find my rhythm and breezed into the finals.
In my final match this dick Bobby through an illegal kick to my leg. I was totally gutted, It didn’t look as if I was going to be able to continue. The dude Bobby was disqualified and it looked as if his team mate Johnny would win the championship by default. Effe that!
My trainer is pretty old school and I was able to convince him to apply some traditional Thai massage technique to my leg. I couldn’t believe it but I felt like I could continue
When I got out there they were almost ready to award my opponent Johnny with the title. I had seen better days but I didn’t go all that way not to fight.
Johnny came at me pretty hard but as he was backing me up I was able to score a clean point to his chest. I got to say though this dude Johnny was kind of a dick, after the point he muttered “You’re dead” what an ass. He came at me again and I swept him and landed a back fist. Point no. 2 for me.
We got an injury time out for a bloody nose, and we went back to our corners. His trainer seemed pretty pissed at him, there were having some sort discussion. I’m sure glad I wasn’t him. When he came out he opened with a leg kick and a quick snap kick to my face. He was defiantly pissed, I fell to the floor after being swept and he kept trying to stomp on my head. I was really starting to worry.
He pulled the ultimate dick move though… I caught one of my kicks and dropped an elbow right on my injured leg; I must have been on the floor for at least a minute. Everybody was booing, it was pretty incredible. The worst though was his one loud mouth team mate who had been harassing me through the whole event, shouted “Get him a body bag!” Seriously WTF? What is this Karate Kid or something? Prick.
I didn’t know how much more I could take, I had to reach deep. My trainer and I have been working on a special kick, I was pretty sure none of these fools had seen it before. It’s called a Crane Kick.
As I suspected Johnny came straight into my kick. It was awesome, everyone rushed the floor my girl friend nearly tackled me she was so happy.
is this fool tripping on e’s or wat