Muay Thai Addicts I- Results

This past Sunday KO-Gym (my current camp) held it’s annual show at Porchester Hall in London.  David Pacquette and Saro Presti headlined the sold out event.

I was originally going to MC the event and was silently relieved when they decided to hire a professional.  I practiced doing the voice while in the shower and I have to admit I was pretty shit.  I’m pretty sure the crowd would have smelled a rookie and had their way with me.

“Moo Ping would have to be my favorite meat on a stick…”

Instead I was asked to do the fight commentary… that was loads and loads of fun.  I’m not saying I’m any good at it; in fact most of my commentary was pretty much unusable!

I think I’m going to have to go in and redub it… I’ve got a new found respect for commentators it definitely takes practice.  I tend to think less is more, but you can’t have too much dead air… there was a fight that was pretty boring, and it was pretty difficult to find anything positive to say about it.  My partner in crime Abni, and would look at each other and shake our heads… “That was a nice kick?”  Great fun, great seats.  I don’t think I’ve ever sat through and entire evening of fights and watched every single fight.  Normally I’m running around eating nachos / churros or some shit with cheese on it. I wanted to thank Bill Judd for allowing me the honor, and Isabelle Aranega for putting together such a good show.  You check out out the full fight report and more pictures here.

On to the fights:

It was a night of exceptional fights; I’m hoping to get the footage up as soon as possible.  David’s fight was pretty much a war.  As you MMT regulars should know this was a Contender Asia Season 1 vs. 2 match up.   David represented the UK last year and Saro will be representing Italy this season.

It had to be a daunting task for Saro to fight David in the very heart of his hometown and in front of his peeps.  Mad props to Presti for putting up such a great fight especially under the circumstances.

The fight was 5 x3 min rounds full Thai rules.  The fight started of at a blistering pace and pretty much stayed that way for the whole bout.  The traditional feel out round was nowhere to be found as David threw a flurry of downward elbows in Saro’s direction.  It was going to get ugly.

As the match wore on David began to step it up both physically and technically as he landed a couple of teeps to the face, as well as right kick, right knee combinations.

I spoke with David yesterday and he mentioned that he did feel a little bit bad about pouring it.  There were a couple of times he said he knew Saro was winded from one of his knees but he kept up the pressure.

Anyway, David took the decision and the WKN World Title.

If you look carefully you can see me peeking through Young Greg’s legs…

Young Greg, (actually his name is Greg Wootton) I’m a little George Bush-ish in the sense that I’ve got bad habit of giving people nicknames.  Greg had a spectacular fight, on of the most technical of the entire evening.  Greg’s name has come up a couple of times on MMT… I’m continually impressed with composure, and maturity in the ring.   I’m quite certain he’s going to make onto the world stage.

He fought a very strong Adam Lee Mason from Keddles Gym.  Greg had the height advantage and was able to really work that to his advantage.  He used his teeps effective to keep Mason at bay while following up with long punches straight down the middle.

As I mentioned I’ll try to get some footage up asap, as always if you come across any footage… please send it my way.

Full Results:

WKN WORLD TITLE

David Pacquette (KO) vs Saro Presti (Italy)

70kg – 5X3mn – Full thai rules Win David Pacquette

Attila Boros (KO Bloodline) vs Wendell Roche (Holland)

+95kg – 3X3mn – K1 rules Win Wendell Roche

Martin Goik (KO) vs (Kerith Bhella)

67kg – 3X3mn – K1 rules Win Kerrith Bhella

UKMF BRITISH TITLE

Greg Wootton (KO) vs Adam Lee Mason (Keddles)

63kg – 5X3mn – Full thai rules Win Greg Wootton

Arnold Oborotov (KO Bloodline) vs Litu

88kg – 5X2mn Win Arnold Oborotov

UKMF SOUTHERN AREA TITLE

Isabelle Aranega (KO) vs Carla Sullivan (Semtex)

52kg – 5X2mn Win Carla Sullivan

Joseph Varela (KO Bloodline) vs Dave Lythe (Pegasus)

62 kg – 5X2mn Win Joseph Varela

Claudia Celder (KO) vs Lisa Smith (Benfleet MT)

58kg – 5X1.5mn Win Claudia Celder (KO)

Anne Niven (London Thai Fighters) vs Lisa Hackett (Pegasus)

52kg – 5X2mn Win Anne Niven

Tanat Tiraposin (KO) vs Martin Rowe (Benfleet MT)

70kg – 5X1.5mn Win Tanat Tiraposin

Yahia Abaza (KO) vs Paolo Melgrati (Cobra)

70kg – 5X1.5mn No Contest

Mark Sugrue (KO) vs Dan Theobald (Benfleet MT)

68kg – 5X1.5m Win Mark Sugrue

Kaz Azim (Krisana) vs Anirbar Basar (Cobra)

57kg – 5X1.5mn Win Kaz Azim

Rupsana Bequn (KO) vs Natasha Sollaman (Cobra)

51kg – 3X2mn – K1 Rules – Draw

Mike Neun (Keddles) vs Valentino Pretescu (Benfleet MT)

+95kg – 5X1.5mn – Draw