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This Week in Muay Thai: A New King is Crowned Kumandoi Petchyindee vs Khunsuklek Boomdeksian was the ifght to make in Muay Thai. Kumandoi is #2 on my Pound for Pound list, beating top competition without losing in Muay Thai for almost two years. Khunsuklek is a more recent entrant into elite...

There weren't a lot of top fights this week so no weekly recap, but I wrote an article about one of the trickiest lead-leg kickers in Muay Thai right now, JJ Or.Pimonsri JJ Or.Pimonsri's Versatile Lead Leg The rear middle kick is, in many ways, the quintessential weapon of Muay Thai. It...

This Week In Muay Thai: KaenUbon vs Sakonpat KaenUbon Por.Lakboon is the top fighter at 112lbs and the current Rajadamnern title holder, winning the interim belt against Waewaw earlier this year, and becoming the official champ when Nadaka Yoshinari vacated his belt to move up to 115lbs. In...

Dustin Poirier’s Right Hook Benoît Saint Denis came into his fight with Dustin Poirier hot off the heels of a five-fight win streak, finishing all his fights in that stretch before the third round. Most of his fights on that run went similarly - he would come out of the gate aggressive, back...

It was Jack Della Maddalena’s crafty striking that got him the win against Gilbert Burns, but some surprisingly astute defensive grappling kept him in the fight long enough to make his strikes count. I want to focus on one particular aspect of his defensive grappling, the unique arm drag grip he...

This Week In Muay Thai: Khunsuknoi vs Ritidet Khunsuknoi Boomdeksian and Ritidet Kiatsongrit are both top five fighters at 118lbs. Khunsuknoi went 2-2 in 2023, but seems to have levelled up lately as he’s on a three-fight win streak including a knockout win over a top fighter in Phetjakajan. He...

Most clear spoken Englishman tbh

Continued Here... The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but I go in depth on Leon's clinch game and wall wrestling. I'm not sure why imgur embeds are broken, if someone can point me to another site I can use to embed I'll fix the clips. You can find an album of all the clips in this...

Fellow southpaws have had the most success with this, as orthodox opponents face the problem of needing to work their way into effective feinting range, lest Edwards keep them an extra step away and ignore any jerky movements. But in a closed stance matchup, the jab becomes an immediate threat...

The fighting career of Leon Edwards has paralleled his life, characterized by adversity and punctuated with triumph. Growing up amidst a culture of crime that took his father’s life and promised to imperil his own, Edwards instead chose another path. At his mother’s urging, a teenage Edwards...

Continued Here... The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but I go in depth on Leon's clinch game and wall wrestling. I'm not sure why imgur embeds are broken, if someone can point me to another site I can use to embed I'll fix the clips. You can find an album of all the clips in this...

Fellow southpaws have had the most success with this, as orthodox opponents face the problem of needing to work their way into effective feinting range, lest Edwards keep them an extra step away and ignore any jerky movements. But in a closed stance matchup, the jab becomes an immediate threat...

The fighting career of Leon Edwards has paralleled his life, characterized by adversity and punctuated with triumph. Growing up amidst a culture of crime that took his father’s life and promised to imperil his own, Edwards instead chose another path. At his mother’s urging, a teenage Edwards...

That's fair, with Chaia getting KOd recently and the View win being razor close I think there's a good case for Kumandoi at #1 as well. Yeah, Ronachai would've been high up for me at the start of 2023 off that big streak, but losing to Yothin and Eisaku and only getting the two solid but not...

I wrote up a list of the top 10 pound for pound fighters in Muay Thai. 1. Chaila Por.Lakboon Playlist Chaila’s recent win over View (#3) for the Rajadamnern 126lbs Championship cemented his place as the top fighter in Muay Thai. He beat the best competition of anyone in Muay Thai last year...

Hmm yeah they're not working for me either, seems imgur embed is broken or something Here's a direct link to the clips Much appreciated man!

From MMA’s inception to the late 2000s, it was impossible to faithfully summarize he sport without mentioning the role of Japan. But the past decade has marked a drastic decline in the popularity of Japanese MMA as well as the success of Japanese fighters at the highest level. That looks like it...

Yeah Japanese fighters have always got special treatment for sure, all the way back to when Toshio Fujiwara won his belt with a double leg takedown lol. But it bugs me more nowadays because Rajadamnern belts that still have a decent standard of competition, with Lumpini belts being awarded on...

This Week In Muay Thai: Chaila vs View Top five pound-for-pound fighters collide, Yodkla and Adtewada impress, and a clinch banger between Dieselnoi and Pornsonae. Chaila vs View was one of the best fights that could be made in Muay Thai, as both Chaila Por.Lakboon and View Petchkoson are top...

Yeah that was an incredible performance from Kumandoi, he's really leveled up over the past year or so.