Contenders back in Singapore

For MyMuayThai readers who are in SE Asia, you should have already bought your tickets.  You’ve got a couple of days to get your act together.

Diimak I’m expecting lots of snaps from you… I’m not talking fight pics, we can get those anywhere.  I’m talking after hour’s pics… the kind that’ll get you into trouble. Read more

Interview with David Pacquette

First things first, many thanks to Dave for taking time out of his training to speak with us.  I contemplated whether or not to redo the interview.  My camera doesn’t have an external mic so the sound is incredibly faint.  I’m looking for new camera as you read this.

I should have known better then to try to do the interview in such a noisy place.I highly recommend that you listen to the interview with headphones, you should be able to work out what David is saying.  He’s rather soft spoken and it’s difficult at times to hear what he’s saying.  I was thinking about transcribing but as you’ll see the interview runs 20+ min.  For those of you who can’t access veoh (gusnark) you can download the interview here.

If any of you are around this weekend, he’ll be fighting Cedric Muller this Sunday evening at York Hall in Bethnal Green.

Thanks guys for all your questions, hopefully next time around I’ll have a new camera (with external mic).

K-1 Scandinavia Results

I’m experiencing some technical difficulties… I’m still trying to get you the rest of the action from Sweden.

2^nd Semi Final

Dzabar Askerov vs. Maro Pique

I’m still trying to get my hands on the 1^st semi-final as well as the final. If you don’t want to know the results, then don’t read any further. I’ll post the fights when I’m able to get a hold of them. Read more

Sean Wright Vs Kozo Takeda

There were some pretty good fights this past week and weekend. I’m going to hold off reporting for a day or so… so I can scrounge up some footage. The big bout last week went down at Big Hearts 8 in Tokyo Japan.

Muay Thai & K-1 vet Kozo Takeda against Contender Asia Semi-finalist Sean Wright. I’m still searching for footage of the fight… It should have been a leg kick throw down as it’s the favored technique of both these fighters. Read more

The Pride of Muay Thai

This article was originally written for The Bangkok Post. I don’t know why they do this, but they essentially don’t archive any of their stories… if you don’t read them on that day on the website your SOL.

Yodsaenklai Fairtex has made a huge contribution to promoting Muay Thai worldwide after becoming the first winner of Contender Asia last week

Story By: KITTIPONG THONGSOMBAT

Yodsaenklai Fairtex became the first champion of the Contender Asia – the world’s first Muay Thai reality show – last week. The victory is a huge boost for both the Thai traditonal martial art and the fighter himself.

The show, which was filmed in Singapore for two months, has helped promote Muay Thai worldwide and made Yodsaenklai famous on the international stage.

“Foreigners know me better now,” said the 158-pound Yodsaenklai who took the winner’s cheque of 5 million baht.

The 22-year-old boxer adds the Contender Asia trophy to his collection of titles which include three Lumpini championship belts in 105, 147 and 154 pounds and WBC Muay Thai 154 pound belt. Read more

Soren vs. Sean Contender Asia Finals

Many thanks to our friends at the Contender Asia fans for posting these. My apologies for the 4 parts, but I wasn’t able to get the original dl.

Last but definitely not least, Sean vs. Soren. In my opinion the fight of the night. BTW, how nice was it not to have to listen to those guys? Another random observation… I think Sean has to have the worst Ram Muay… I’m not talking the Haduken. I think that’s pretty cool, but if you watch his ram muay it’s just awful. Once again it confirmed my suspicions about fairtex being left out, when they announced Soren’s full fight name…

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