Sunday afternoon, with live Muay Thai on the television before me, one long succession of youthful fighters slinging the heat rocks, most of whom I’ve never seen before, many whom I probably/possibly wont see again. Some great stuff amongst the hardly-pronouncable names, and it got me thinking about fights that could potentially be brilliant, or […]

Yodsanklai Fairtex is once more the WMC World champion, once more at middleweight. The “Boxing Computer” of Thailand improves to 179-71, and proves he can still go strong against international competition in these later stages of his career. His WMC win, over the capable middleweight Slovak Vladimír Moravčík, is the latest in his international period that […]

Pac is back, and his dance partner this time is the former long-time WBC and current WBO Light-welterweight world champion and Junior Witter’s conqueror, the awkward Tim Bradley. Judging from the Face-to-Face, Face-Off, or whatever that waste of time was called, Pacquaio doesn’t care about this one, and will speak about, prepare for and probably […]

Light a candle. Ten years ago today, we saw last boxing’s royalty, pound-for-pound icon, showman extraordinaire, featherweight all-time-great, British boxing top tier member and easily the most talented fighter I have ever seen in my life; PRINCE, Naseem, Hamed! This is a Requiem for Naseem. One day after I posted about Fedor Emelianenko’s imminent retirement, […]

“It is God’s Will”, says Fedor, the greatest Mixed Martial Arts fighter to have ever competed professionally. That was how he justified his fall from the top, as his decade of destruction and 32-fight-unbeaten streak of terror was finally ended by Fabricio Werdum. And so it is now, as he prepares to end his career […]

Two juicy matchups for Phuket Top Team stars at One FC IV: Destiny of Warriors! It is heavily rumoured that the fights to be signed for Messrs Adam Kayoom and Rodrigo Praxedes are to be all-black-belt affairs. Kayoom, from Malaysia, is a former WPMF middleweight World Muay Thai champion, and a decorated Brazilian Jiu Jitsu […]

The massive June 9 WBC extravaganza that FightSportAsia first reported here on March 27th has been finalised, and its full lineup announced. And what a lineup. SEVEN world championship fights will be hosted at the event, which is a fundraiser to help raise cash for flood victims throughout Thailand. The card is as follows: Big […]

The Catch-Knee; catch the kick, pull the leg, jumping knee. This technique is demonstrated ably by Kru Bert, former Rajadamnern and Lumpinee fighter who has faced such men as Kem and Sudsakorn, with fellow national stadiums veteran Kru Lucky, who boasts a 129-21 win/loss record. Both men coach/train Muay Thai at Phuket Top Team in […]

One FC will dominate the Asian market, and its name will become continentally synonymous with the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, as has the UFC in the western world. There are a plethora of reasons why the title of this article is as close to fact as speculative opinion can possibly be. One FC are riding […]

March-June 2012 is a great time to be a fan of Muay Thai, especially in Thailand! After the consecutive Saturday Lumpinee Stadiums cards Sam-A/Petchpanomrung & Saenchai/Sagetdao, we had several announcements, the three most eye-catching to me of which I will feature here, namely: *The Omnoi Stadium tournament. *The WMC 4-man 72kg title tournament *The WBC […]